On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Carl Meyer <carl@oddbird.net> wrote:
I spent some time in rural southern Mexico, where people referred to DST
as "government time" and non-DST as "God's time."

Interesting.  In Russia it was sometimes called the "decree" time even though historically the "decree time" was something different.  (And guess what: the spring-forward/fall-back mnemonics don't help non-English speakers.)