Ask Slashdot: Is there majority support for any DST alternative?

superposed writes: Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts Saturday night in the U.S. This is a perennial cause of complaint in Slashdot, but there may not be majority support for replacing it with either permanent summer time (more light in evenings, less in mornings) or permanent winter time (more light in mornings, less in evenings). This poll will determine if a majority would support either over DST. If votes for D are higher than A, then there is majority support for ending DST and replacing it with the greater of B or C. But if A > D, there is not majority support for a switch to either setting permanently.

Which would you prefer?

A. DST is better than both permanent summer and permanent winter time
B. summer time > DST > winter time
C. winter time > DST > summer time
D. either permanent winter or summer time would be better than DST

Option E

[Spazmania]

I vote for option E: Everybody switches to UTC.

Local noon on the U.S. pacific coast will be 20:00 instead of 12:00 and the office day will start at 17:00 instead of 9:00 am. But in trade, I never have to do any mental gymnastics converting for someone else's time again.

Re: Option E

[superposed]

But then if you want to plan meetings with people in other regions, you have to keep a table of "customary business hours" for every part of the world for every time of year. That ends up looking like a time zone / DST table, but without the standardization.

Re:

[Spazmania]

You have to check when they're available anyway. Even where people actually work "customary business hours," they take time off for things like doctors' appointments and childrens' special events.

A as in non-Autistic.

[david-bo]

A. I don't understand all complaints. I change my sleep cycle more than one hour between weekdays and weekends every week. One hour is nothing. People complaining about that should have their autism treated instead of complaining!