I also wish DST would go away. I seriously question its alleged energy-savings and safety benefit while I know for a fact that the disorientation itself is quite costly - there's an uptick in traffic accidents the first week of DST and plenty of folks show up late for work the first day it's in effect.
I'm part of the 24-hour economy, so DST is pure nuisance for me. When you're driving to work at 2PM, the sun is only a few hours past high noon, and when you're heading home at midnight, dawn is usually more than 6 hours away.
Dumb. I don't think that the "problems" that DST attempts to address can be seriously effected by shifting time an hour every 6 months.
People are typically awake 16 hours of the day. Assuming the 8 hours of sleep occur during nighttime hours, that leaves an average 4 hours of darkness that people are not going to sleep through. By the nature of our economy and society, people are going to be active during those hours.
It is simply not possible to manipulate the clock so that all activities occur during daylight hours. Modern life requires more than "workday" hours to take care of everything that needs to be done.
I submit that individual businesses, schools, government agencies, etc could do more to promote energy efficieincy/savings and safety through local initiatives than the clumsy mechanism of DST. Local scheduling instead of rigid national scheduling would help. Here in the southern US, for example, the length of the day doesn't vary so much, so DST is marginalized even more.
The 24-hour economy is growing. Even the most stodgy of private institutions, banks, are offering extended hours. Your typical retailer is open 15 hours a day. After-school programs - one of many common justifications for DST - typically run into the early evening. Why can we not accept that DST is an anaochronism of an earlier age that's no longer relevant?