i would rather have the sun come up very early and go down very early than have it come up very late and go down later, which is what happens when you shift to permanent dst. in detroit, the sun won't come up until like 9:00 am and go down until 19:00 in the dead of the winter. that's awful. so, i would not like to see permanent dst. i'd like to adjust it in the opposite direction, so that the sun comes up an hour earlier than standard time rather than the opposite. that would lead to a shortest day from 7:00-17:00 rather than from 9:00-19:00, and reassert more normal daytime hours through the rest of the year (sunrise before 7:00 am, sunset after 17:00 pm).

the shift they're proposing, which would have the earliest sunset at 19:00, is bizarre and the worst possible option. i like the dark evenings at 16:00 or 17:00 and i hate the late sunrises after 6:30.