Republicans are pandering to their elderly, technologically incompetent base that can't figure out how to change a clock (even though most things hooked up to the internet will do that automatically now).

I guess that one of the other reasons for DST was energy efficiency, which is something that Republicans are also against.

Or set the switch to and from DST to more sensible dates. Mid April to late September is what I'd go for.

It was shot down (I think at the federal level) on the grounds that there was no mechanism to allow states to stay on Daylight Savings time year round. They could do the twice yearly change or stay on standard, but not daylight savings year round.

So Orwellian to renumber the clock like this.