XKCD on DST

From XKCD

Monroe also suggests an alternate solution in the title text, averaging out the spring and fall changes and setting clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round. Commenting on this cartoon, the good people at Explain XKCD point out an unexpected benefit of the current system: in at least two separate cases, terrorists have blown themselves up due to failure to spring forward or fall back.

While Monroe's ideas are interesting, I'm still pushing for the plan where we set the clocks back one hour twice a month. Twenty-four slightly longer weekends and everything comes out even by the end of the year.