I’m currently undecided on the dollar bill. I used to be in favor of abolishing it but then I listened to a Planet Money podcast where the long-term cost comparison with the dollar coin is pretty much a wash. When I rule the world come back and make a case for it. 
However if we had DST in the winter maybe the kids could see to walk home from school! Seems to me that we could set our clocks for what ever time we like, to make use of what ever daylight hours we have, since basically that is what we do now. Certainly I did not mean to imply that we could control the sun rising and setting.
If there were no DST, I wouldn’t have to have this yearly conversation with a certain family member:
ME: “Well, we’re back to DST now.”
HER: “So that means our cousin [on Central Time] is two hours behind us now?”
ME: “No, they’re on DST too.”
HER: “Oh, so we’re the same now.”
ME: “No, we’re both on DST. Our clocks moved an hour ahead, and so did theirs. So they’re still one hour behind us.”
HER: “Oh. Okay.”
(Followed by a nod plus a blank look)
My father always told me the cows didn’t care about what time it was, when it was time to be milked, they wanted to be milked. He thought the time change was annoying because he would have to get up an hour earlier to do the chores.
Petition in Alberta to abolish DST.
A group in Colorado is petitioning for year round DST. Makes me 
That’s more sensible than abolishing DST. I’d much rather have the light at the end of the day.
ETA: Although my preference is to leave things as they are.
Actually, the only thing that makes sense is to switch to the daylight hours of the extreme north; virtually no daylight from, say, December through March and virtually no nighttime from May through September. The only problem I see is that we couldn’t have fireworks on Independence Day.
Compared to changes that radical, moving Independence Day to a more celebratable time of year would be child’s play.
Yup.
In St. Petersburg, we’re on permanent Summer Time (which probably explains why we had such a mild winter). It’s a little odd now, that we’re the same time as Helsinki, the Baltics, Minsk, etc.