I mean, yeah, but I don't like using "fixed" here. Going to permanent regular time would mean the sun wouldn't rise an hour later during the DST months. DST ends on Halloween this year so we'd have an earlier sunrise right now.

But it doesn't change anything else. Winter is standard time already so it's not going to change anything about the sunrise or sunset in December. It's also not adding any sunlight, just shifting the times.

This is my go to argument when people say daylight saving is a pain. When I first came to Japan and left a late night bar at 3 to find the sky getting first light I was dismayed. 430 sunrise is far too early.

Yep. At the height of summer, I can walk around outside at 3ish in my super-countryside area and see well enough to start doing farm work.

This is why I love fall and winter.

I live in Arizona. It's still sunny and over 100 degrees here. Where does this person live, Alaska?

I'm going to guess they live in the Yukon

Also less mosquitoes and biting flies. School is in session so crowds are down until holiday travel begins.

At 3am??? Nightmarish to my brain. 3am is so firmly in the "it is always dark at that hour" I'm not sure what I'd do being confronted with sunrise then. I think sunrise here at its earliest was around 545?

Are you a bot? Because I too live in Arizona; I've been enjoying all the rain we had last week, and the lovely 95° temps it left behind in its wake. It usually doesn't drop below 100° until November here, so this early autumn weather is a nice change of pace for once.