>I could see though if we make it permanent that there will be a strange offset from what you would expect looking at a globe.
That's exactly what I partially worry about with permanent DST being the reality. And in addition to there being dark mornings as a result of permanent DST, it wasn't really popular when Nixon decided to do permanent DST for 16 months in 1974: https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/30/the-year-daylight-saving-time-went-too-far/
I guess I don't worry about dark mornings because people will adjust their schedules around the sun. I guess where I live no body starts work a 9:00am. If you work an office job you start at 7:00am or 6:00am (to beat traffic) and start times are really distributed from 5:00am to 9:00am to be honest. Then people get off early so it's not weird for the start of rush hour to be 3:00pm. If you work in retail or food industry your start is going to depend on demand rather than some expectation that jobs start at 9:00am.
School start times are arbitrary too. All districts start school at different time currently because you can't start your elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools at the same time because of the buses. Different places have had different thinking about the order depending on when they want older kids to be able to help younger kids get too and from school.
The problem is with the current set up those early start times become super dark half of the year.
What pisses me off is we would have ultimate frisbee games and things would start to get dark but still be playable and bam, it's dark by the time everyone has gotten home from work. It's hard enough doing things outdoors later in the year and they just solidified that the only thing to do is go to bars.
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