AHC: make standard time prevalent again in North America

Starting with the first energy crisis (as I recall it) in the Nixon years, the starting date for Daylight Saving Time has been monkeyed with repeatedly. Until the early 1970s, it started at 2:00 AM on the last Sunday of April and ended at 2:00 AM on the last Sunday of October. Now it starts in mid-March, at which point it's absurd (outdoor activities are still rather hampered by weather) and ends in early November (ostensibly for safety on Hallowe'en). By contrast, in the years between the world wars, Daylight Saving Time wasn't observed at all.

So, how do we get things back to a situation where standard time is, indeed, standard? Let's say Daylight Saving Time wouldn't begin until 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in May (by which time it makes sense with respect to weather and the duration between sunrise and sunset) and end at 2:00 AM on the last Sunday in September (duration between sunrise and sunset is less than 12 hours by then). That puts the warmer months (May-September inclusive, roughly; 147 days) on Daylight Saving Time and the balance of the year (218 days in non-leap years) on standard time.
 
It would have to make more economic sense for the clocks to stay the same year-round. Keep in mind that the candy industry lobbied to have DST extended into November so Halloween would be under DST (no joke.)

Another possibility is to have areas shift ahead an hour year-round. Given that, in the US, standard time is the exception and not the rule, it may make sense to do so.
 
Considering that the US's time zones are already "late" (by longitude, Mountain time could reasonably start roughly over Oklahoma City, the solar noon is so late,) going back to standard would be enough of an improvement, yet you'd still have places in west Texas and parts of the Florida Panhandle an hour ahead of solar noon anyway.
 
It's worse yet in still other parts of the US, like Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Marquette is close to Chicago's longitude and yet is on the eastern time zone. And that still isn't the worst case: if you cross the Pigeon River from MN (in the Minnesota arrowhead on the north shore of Superior) into Ontario, you're going from the central to the eastern time zone. And that's west of Chicago.

Ideally the zones would be set up centered on a meridian divisible by 15, with boundaries ±7.5°. But let's face it: some populated areas are going to be badly out of step with solar time no matter what.
 
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