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I like DST. I do not like the DST switch. If I had my way, we'd just keep DST year-round.

(Really, if I had my way, we'd just use GPS time universally. But that'll never happen, while year-round DST is at least vaguely possible.)

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In Russia there was all year DST since 2011 until 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia#2011_zone_bound...)

It was frustrating in December when Sun rose at 9.30am while first lecture in my university was scheduled to 9am.

Idea made me smile, but what about making appointments? I grant that you usually give a place, too. But to be entirely location independent, my nerd self would probably prefer UTC globally and get rid of timezones entirely :)

GPS time is just UTC but without any leap seconds applied after 1980. It doesn't mean a position dependent time. GPS satellites transmit this, then also transmit the difference between GPS and UTC so that devices can convert it to whatever they want to display.

Now it all makes sense. I adopt your position. Thanks for disabusing me of my ignorance.

Glad to be of service. If you'd never heard of GPS time before, I can totally see how you could understand it the other way.

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