Should daylight saving time be abolished permanently?

We have tried to fix the clock before and made a mess. In 1974 the U.S. tried year-round daylight time during the energy crisis and parents revolted over children waiting for school buses in the dark; it was repealed within a year. Russia's 2011 experiment with permanent daylight time ended the same way, with a switch to permanent standard time in 2014. Every option has a constituency that hates it, which is why the current compromise survives: we muddle through two transitions a year that most people adjust to within days. The Associated Press has covered how the Sunshine Protection Act keeps stalling precisely because nobody agrees on the replacement. Abolishing the switch sounds decisive until you have to pick the time, and then the fight starts over. Sometimes the devil you know is the policy.