Daylight Savings

I think what Kelefane means is states at the most extreme midpoints would be effected by the full benefits, and from the disadvantages the same - while states in the areas not as effected would get only the minor amount from the benefits but still get the full disadvantages.

Yeah, what Vulash said.

They did it in Alaska, which really didn't mean much until winter time. It would get dark at 3pm, instead of 4pm. During the summer, it would be all bright and shit when you woke up, but it's going to be like that past 4am anyway. Pointless to do it in AK.

The major cost from DST is felt in the business world. I can tell you when they changed the dates that DST takes place 2 years ago it was ridiculous. Besides patching the operating system on client machines (not really a big deal if you are running WSUS or some kind of patch management enterprise software) but older servers had to be patched manually. Then if you are running a Microsoft Exchange environment, there are procedures for this as well apart from the OS patches because for some stupid fucking reason Exchange and Outlook use their own time system. Patching the mail server at the time was a matter of having to create a virtual server and a virtual pc and migrate all data to it and some other bullshit that would take hours and had many issues that could cause data corruption and loss. In an environment like ours, where we are bound by both Sox and HIPPA, losing email data is not an option. Plus, this fix only effected one time calendar events, not reoccurring events. For that fix, users had to change them all manually or had to run a tool to do it. That's just data servers, I haven't even got into phone systems, and I'm not going to lol. Point is, there was a lot of expense in making the recent change (which, by the way, is up in a year at which time they may change it again!) and it would be equally expensive to make another change. If they were to change it, I would like to see them just do away with the whole concept completely and quick fucking with the clocks.