<rant>Daylight Saving Time

(Warning: quickly put together and not proofread)
I know that I’m not the first one to say this, but Daylight Savings Time just seems to me like a really dumb idea. Starting next year, Congress has decreed to make DST even longer by a month, leaving Standard time only around for like 4 months of the year, and requiring countless software & firmware patches. I just don’t get it. If people need an hour more of daylight, why not just get up an hour earlier? Why do we need to set the clocks? There’s just some sort of inherent want for “noon” to be “sun overhead”, and then tricking ourselves to make noon at a different time so that we have an extra hour of daylight? Huh? If this tricking ourselves actually saves energy, why not just be at UTC-4 instead of UTC-5 year-round?

And especially in today’s world where interactions around the world are commonplace, why not just stick with UTC, and I’ll wake up at 10:00 and go to bed at 02:00?

All this crazy stuff just in the name of backwards compatibility.