Also the author goes on about people commuting or arranging meetings across time zones and how annoying it is for them. I get that, but I think actually the vast majority of ppl almost never do that.
> Downing's research also suggests that studies of increased traffic accidents and injuries, which variously support or condemn the practice of daylight saving time, don't really show enough of a difference to be statistically significant in a nation where more than 30,000 people are killed in traffic accidents each year.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131101-when-...
If there are less accidents going to school during the day, then the switch in March to DST means that in many places people will go to school when it's still dark, which sucks..
I would also wager that the risk of being hit by a jetlagged, drowsy driver offsets any dubious benefit changing the time twice a year might have.