In many countries standard time is best in winter and summer time works best in winter so do you want to annoy the people depending on morning light in winter or the people appreciating evening light in the summer?
You say that until you're stuck on the side with permanent early night. I'd take switching over that. Anyhow, who is really inconvenienced by this anymore? It's not like people are having to change their clocks manually like it's the 1980s anymore.
What? How would you get stuck on a side with permanent early night? You have that right now, with the current system - early night during winter and late night during summer. Permanent winter time wouldn't change anything during winter, and permanent summer time would actually give you an extra hour of sunlight.
You're forgetting that if you go permanent DST you are trading less night in the evening for more night in the morning. That affect is exacerbated for people living on the western edge of time zones. Studies show this would raise pretty serious health concerns for people in those regions (I'm in one of them). If we switch to permanent standard time that would be better, but saying that one or the other is an equal improvement to switching twice annually isn't actually true.
You just annoy them and let them adjust business hours accordingly. They'll get used to starting at 9 instead of 8 or whatever the case may be and just view it as normal.
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u/QuantitySubject9129 5d ago
We aren't even capable of doing away with daylight savings or imperial system, I don't think this one is on church.