On the other hand, that article points out that it proceeds to save lives (in the form of reduced traffic fatalities) during the rest of the time that it's in effect. And the springtime negative effects are due to the change to DST, not DST itself.

The better goal, perhaps, would be end standard (winter) time, not daylight saving (summer) time.

That touches on my main point. I think relatively speaking it has outlived its usefulness, but twice a year its very disruptive to my family's daily schedule for a few days. My kids are too young to understand it and just know that their day is off somehow.

I'd contend the name of the thing is now actually "Daylight Savings Time" instead of "Daylight Saving Time" as it was originally put into law.

Language is descriptive. If everyone calls a thing X, it is, by definition, called X.

I think we should also officially adopt yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm and the 24hr clock. (I forget the official name of that formatting, and I'm on my phone, so I'm lazy.)

And the International Fixed Calendar, too.

Also, metric.

That one's a bit tough since it really only affects people who are working far apart -- at which point you can just agree on what time something is.

For example, it's great to think of noon as being the middle of the day no matter where you are. There are clearly advantages the other way around as well.

DST is just disruptive, though. "Hey everybody! Let's have two ones o'clock this morning!" That created all kinds of confusion in my house last night when things were running at one I didn't expect to be running until two.