Some people complain endlessly about DST. Others relish the extra summer evening daylight generally for social activities. (So it's easy to guess what is preferred by the anti-social.)
I have the best idea. Rather than switching on DST in one big thump, which does create issues, what we need is Daylight Seconds.
With Daylight Seconds, clocks adjust forward a few seconds a day, starting once average sunrise time achieves no later than 7AM, and keeping it no earlier than 7AM, until June 21, when about 2 hours of daylight savings have been achieved by pushing it all to the end of the day, then switching in reverse to cancel out until the sunrise time has again reached 7AM, then letting it rise from there.
I presume of course that all clocks are computerized and set themselves automatically via RF or internet. All mine are, at least the ones I bother with. They may all be that in 100 years, if not 50 years. I think dumb clocks, that don't set themselves automatically via a trusted source (on RF or Internet) are stupid, and most people are just way behind on this now.
What I'm proposing would never force sunrise to be any later than 7am, but never allow it to be any earlier. For most of the year, 7am would sunrise. Isn't it far more natural to get up every day based on Sunrise rather than midnight? Certainly that's the way human life would have been before clocks and time keeping.
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