If, because of your official time zone, the sun sets earlier than you want and you want more sunlight,
GET UP EARLIER!
It’s not rocket science, people.
There’s a SF short story (Arthur C. Clarke perhaps?) where a wannabe criminal from Earth attempts to commit a burglary at a museum near the Martian equivalent to the International Date Line.
He wanted to break in on the weekend when nobody would be there, and went early in the morning, but was shocked when the facility opened later that morning and was caught in the act. Yes, he had crossed the date line, which was remarkably easy to do casually because there are no big oceans on Mars and, in that story, there was a major city that straddled the (land) line.
The state of Oaxaca, Mexico is exactly the opposite. There, the “non-Indian” (generalizing here) valleys DO observe daylight savings changes, while the “Indian” mountains DON’T*. Luckily, when you drive between the valleys and the mountains during the months of the year that daylight savings is in effect, it’s easy to remember how to change your clocks, because, by coincidence, the time in the “mountains” corresponds to “Mountain Time” in the US (while the valleys, and most of the country, is on “Central” time).
Then, there was that ill-advised (and short-lived) decision by the Riviera Maya, a strip of towns around Cancun, to switch to “Eastern” time (while the rest of that part of Mexico was “Central”), just to cater to the poor confused tourists, most of who flew down from places like New York and Miami. As if spring breakers care what time it is, besides “beer time” or “beach time”! (Maybe some folks missed their plane rides home or something.)
(*The Indians think they need to uphold their tradition of thumbing their nose at the government, which I approve of in general, but this is a pretty silly way to do it.)
If you have set hours to be at work, getting up earlier isn’t a solution.
Yes it is. You can get up an hour earlier and go outside and take a jog before leaving for work. For people with flex hours, it’s practically a non-issue to show up for work an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier on many days, and have that extra hour in the afternoon.
But then I won’t get enough sleep!!!
I keed. 
That works if you want to use the extra hour to jog. It doesn’t work so well if you’d rather play golf or do yardwork until 8 pm rather than stopping at 7.
Daylight saving time. Not savings time. 
So then he would be off by a week. As it is he’s more like off by 6 months if he lives in the northern hemisphere.
This helped cause one of the most confusing drives in my life.
I was driving across country with a friend and had stopped for the night in Amarillo. The next day would take us from the central time zone to mountain time, through pockets of observing and not observing areas of Arizona to Nevada, which we didn’t anticipate being on Pacific time.
A few times we found ourselves either eating “before” the last time we stopped or stopping to eat “5 hours later” after having driven for 4 hours.
By the time we reached NV and they essentially told us it was about hour and a half earlier than it was when we had last stopped for gas in AZ, our heads were so spun around that they could have told us it was yesterday and I’m not sure we would have been in any position to argue.
You can, but that’s not as enjoyable as having the hours at a more convenient time. He said he had more hours to enjoy.
A while back some friends and I were on a road trip in the south NV/AZ area. There’s a time zone boundary between the two states, and as it happened, DST ended during the trip. Also, as noted, AZ doesn’t observe DST. That got confusing fast… wait, what state are we in? And is it past the DST date yet? Oh, but we’re in AZ now so that doesn’t matter… ugh.
Just south of where I live is an unusual North/South divide, caused by the southern state adopting daylight saving in the (Southern Hemisphere) summer and the northern state refusing to do so.
There is one huge tourist city that pretty much straddles the divide, so people close to the border just make do by remembering which shops open when. The sole advantage to the arrangement is on New Year’s Eve, where midnight happens twice.
I lived in Nebraska on the edge of Central and Mountain for a bit. It didn’t affect me all that much personally because there wasn’t much reason to go over into the other time zone. I worked at a newspaper whose coverage area included both time zones, so we needed to pay a little extra attention when we printed listings of meetings and such so as to not lead our readers astray.
This is so ANAL. I love it.
On FaceBook somebody posted a Native-American saying, “Leave it to whites to think if they cut off the top part of a blanket and sew it onto the bottom, they can make it longer.” I had to press “Like.”
This is so funny. Thank you.
I used to live in South Bend, Indiana. Prepare for a conversation if you want to know what time it is. Temporally punished, indeed.
I work daily with people in Arizona. We collectively waste hours every year trying to goad Exchange and Outlook calendars to make sense and at each switch from daylight wasting to saving. Recurring meetings with them are hopeless to sort out and best avoided.
When I go from Vancouver BC to Cancun, the time zone in Cancun always confuses me. Mexico isn’t using the same day light savings time as Can/US Cancun Time Zone
I’m always wondering about the time in Cancun when DST changes, sounds lame but I travel there alot.
Exactly. And before anyone says well, gee, you could do yard work in the morning too, it was 30-odd degrees outside at 7am and got up to 58 in the afternoon here today. Big difference when you’re raking up damp leaves versus frozen leaves.