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If you can change the school schedule to accommodate DST shortcomings, you can change the school schedule to accommodate Standard Time. It’s all an abstraction anyway. Want more time outside in the sun? Get a job in the early shift or the night shift. Or ask your employer to have seasonal hours to allow for more time after work.
The crux is that the earths axis is tilted and you’ll be cheated out of light no matter how you slice it. With 8 or fewer daylight hours in the day you’re exceptionally likely to miss all of the sunshine in any 7-4/8-5/9-6 job. Shifting the clock either way will always fuck it up for somebody. Time is just a way to say, with some margin of error, that the sun is overhead (or on the opposite side of the earth from you) at a “zero” point.
Asking politicians to “fix” your personal dislike of your employers hours or your preferred sleep schedule is selfish and/or lazy*.
Without unions, and with the job market the way it is, politicians actually do have more control over my employer than I do. "Ask for better hours" and "find a new job" don't cut it these days.
What I was partly trying to get at is that we work too much and for too long. But the best way to fix that and get more time to ourselves is unionization and regulation.
My other point is that we can just reinvent our timezones at the state and local level to best serve the people that live in them.