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Leo is perfectly entitled to criticise the twice-a-year clock change in the US, but he should say whether he’d prefer Petaluma to have sunrises as late as 8.30 AM in the winter or sunsets always before 7.45 PM in the summer. These would be the consequences of, respectively, staying on Daylight Saving Time or Standard Time all year round.
I find the change can be very dangerous. In Autumn, you just get through driving into the rising sun on the way to work and you are through the dangerous time, where visibility is limited and the clocks change and you have to go through it all again. The same in spring the other way round, you have just gotten through the dangerous time of driving home from work into the setting sun and the clocks change and you have to do it again.
To be honest, I’d rather darker mornings in Winter, I have to go to work 5 days a week, so whether it is light or not, when I am at work is not really relevant, I’d rather it get dark a little later in the evening, so that I have an hour or so of sunlight, when I am not working…
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So I guess you’d support a new law that fixes the direction the sun rises in? 
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In the very long term, assuming humans can survive as a species that long, the length of a day on Earth is going to get longer, so we’re going to have to mess with the clocks anyway. Maybe we should start adapting early and come up with a metric clock so no one gets preferential clocking?
No, I’d support a law that made sure that the duration of the danger isn’t doubled.