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Title text: I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

Randall's predicted outcome of the above: chaos
Realistic outcome: everyone just shrugs and continues to do it the way they did anyway, to make it easier

Averaging out the difference makes as much sense as the current system.

*switches to a system where the sun rises at 6:00, and sets at 18:00, and day hours and night hours are different lengths*

That was, essentially, the ancient Roman system.

*switches to a system where 6:00 is whenever I wake up and 18:00 is whenever I go to bed that day