However, seeing two paths diverge in the wood, they have, without any justification, decided to take the obviously idiotic one and make Daylight Savings Time permanent instead of standard time.

There are practical problems with this, particularly for us northerners, but my great issue is that, hippies and nihilists notwithstanding, time is an observable reality that humans across the world have spent thousands of years studying. I am sympathetic to the argument that "anything is better than changing the clocks," but to me the heart of the matter is this: the government had already manipulated time via a ridiculous fiat, and instead of letting us return to something that approximates reality, they have decided that our understanding of sunlight must remain a fiction.

The core premise of time as a concept is that the middle of the day (noon) is when the sun is directly overhead. I would not take it as far as Brownstone Institute President Jeffrey Tucker and insist that the only time is what is on a sundial and we should get rid of all standardization. It ought to be obviously necessary that we have a shared understanding of what time it is.

Also, I was horrified by the suggestion of one of his followers that since phones have GPS, they could all always know our own solar times and auto adjust when we communicate. Time zones were a positive innovation—though not without their irritating flaws—particularly for those who live in the middle of a country dominated by the coasts. Looking at my own "solar time," without DST, it is only about five minutes off, and I live on the edge of a time zone, though in theory this could go up to a half hour in either direction. It is important this is standardized.

For example, while I suppose it would be better if no one listened to the president speak, we can't very well have a massive country of 340 million people and be told "the president will be addressing the country at 9PM Washington DC time, which is some random time for you." Like most things which make society function, such as it does, time zones are based on a compromise between nature and the needs of society, but recognize that noon is when the sun is directly overhead.

Instead of living in this reality, the government has decided that the very light we see by must be their own fiction. While we have all grown used to the denial of reality and living by lies, this is too rich because they are not even trying to give meaningful justification to the policy, and those of us who oppose it are being called little more than spoilsports who are looking a gift horse in the mouth. To me, though, the categorical refusal of Congress to let reality reign should be the subject of more attention. I assume that, being full of dullards, the whole of them just figured "Daylight Savings Time is better." Quite a lot of people assume winter is DST because it is the part of the year when daylight is in short supply. In fact, winter is standard time, which speaks to the stupidity of the entire endeavor in the first place, which is more or less based on the premise that people don't turn electric lights on when the sun is out.