HB PIB
Your argument for putting the clock back is not convincing. Your only point you made was so that you can watch your baseball game at the same time as the US. Your other point was so that you could sleep an extra hour. Which in a weeks time you would not notice anyway. Why should the DR try to copy everything American? The reason why DST was such a failure here was that it was simply never needed. It had nothing to do with informing the population. DST is used in countries where it's Longitude dictates its usefulness. How many countries with Longitude 18 degrees North use DST, the Sahara, Saudi Arabia, India, Vietnam. I think not. There is a one and a half hour daylight difference from Winter Solstice to Summer Solstice here which is no comparison to the difference in most of the Northern US.