Totally agree - was just coming here to post the same info. Through December and January, it's super dark for the kids heading out to school in the morning - which is a dangerous situation that the state of Washington discovered in 1974: https://washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/

If I had to guess, they're probably incorporating some of Xerox's DataGlyph technology to make this work. If someone were to digitally alter the image, it'd break the code that stored within the image. Yet at the same time, the image can be printed, snail-mailed, scanned, and then digitally verified that it has not been altered.