I do live in a bubble. That said, it seems to me that there's nothing stopping, say, a factory, from saying "well now, why don't y'all come in at 730am so you can get home earlier". Seems more elegant than changing your UTC offset, especially if you actually use local time for anything, as now you've gotta account for 25 and 23 hour days.
I guess if a business is in the past where screwing around with the clocks at nighttime is unnoticeable, maybe it's an acceptable solution. But in 2015, DST seems as bad as leap seconds. Perhaps even worse.
>here's nothing stopping, say, a factory, from saying "well now, why don't y'all come in at 730am so you can get home earlier".
John is a factory worker who can't afford a car, so he takes the bus to work. Does the bus schedule allow him to come in and leave an hour early?
Frank and his wife both share a car; Frank has to drop his wife off on his way to work. Can Frank's wife come into work an hour early as well, or does she have to spend 9 hours at work and Frank has to wait an hour before he can pick her up? How about Jerry, who gets dropped off by his friend Lloyd because Lloyd has to drive that way anyways and doesn't mind doing Jerry the favour? Does Lloyd have to start running his daily errands earlier, now?
And don't forget that whatever solution you engineer for all of these people, it can't be too permanent, because we're just going to reverse it in a few months. And then re-reverse it later on.
I guess if a business is in the past where screwing around with the clocks at nighttime is unnoticeable, maybe it's an acceptable solution. But in 2015, DST seems as bad as leap seconds. Perhaps even worse.