According to my mother, Daylight Savings Time messes with people's health; there is a rise in heart attacks and strokes around the time changes. I don't know about the fall time change, but "springing forward" is certainly hard on my system. This coming Sunday will be particularly rough, especially since our morning mass was moved up an hour at the beginning of February. To combat this, it's suggested that people start going to bed a little bit earlier every night leading up to the change and to avoid caffeine or alcohol for the two days immediately preceding it. ... That way you can really hate the time change.
I'm not a fan of Daylight Savings Time even if Benjamin Franklin was a supporter. Instead of encouraging people and businesses to change their opening and closing times in response to the summer, we change the way we measure time itself. Suddenly, noon is no longer noon, nor is midnight in the middle of the night.
I've been particularly irritated since we shifted Daylight Savings Time to last even longer, starting before the vernal equinox and after the autumnal equinox rather than vice versa. My irritation is that it was the most public aspect of an "energy bill" whose primary benefits went to oil companies while squashing investments into alternative energy (it still provided some government funding, but at a substantially smaller amount than the original bill had intended). It also made it so our school children have to wait for their buses in the dark for a longer period of time. Even though that bill was passed over eight years ago, I still rankle each time I think about it.
That said, I don't want Alaska to come off Daylight Savings Time unless the rest of the nation does. It's bad enough having a four hour gap with Michigan, a five hour gap would be even more burdensome. Nor would I want just to switch to Daylight Savings Time to being year-round. Again, making middle of the night not occur at midnight, but at 1 am makes less sense to me than people and businesses adjusting their schedules to fit the time (which they technically do anyway, even if they are "tricked" into it).
Just remember to set your clocks forward an hour before this coming Sunday morning.