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Lol. So I'm not the only one! I tell people, Daylight Savings in March is my favorite day of the year. I hate that in the part of year we need daylight the mo

by ijidak 6y ago

Lol. So I'm not the only one! I tell people, Daylight Savings in March is my favorite day of the year. I hate that in the part of year we need daylight the most we give up more daylight?!?!? We now have electricity and few of us need to milk cows or plow fields. The 8-5 for us is stationary. It is never enjoyable to leave the inside of a building (factory or office) in darkness. Unless you just finished the night shift, I guess .. I'll let the politicians decide what they want to do, but I know I'll never fully understand why we take away evening sunlight with our stationary 8-5.

ghaff 6y ago
The switch to DST for me is something along the lines of: "I've been noticing how it's getting measurably lighter in the evenings and now it's really light." (Of course, ST is the opposite effect.) I care less about light in the morning as I tend not to be a particular early bird and where I live it's pretty dark first thing in the morning even with ST.
phaedryx 6y ago
I grew up around farms and farmers. I never understood how DST was supposed to benefit them. The farm animals can't read a clock, they just follow their circadian rhythms and the farmers follow suit.
- pwg 6y ago
  It did not. That was a marketing excuse that was fed to the city dwellers. The farm animals do not understand the "time of day" on a human clock, so the farm work occurs around the animals rhythms, not the "clock on the wall". Moving the time of day backwards or forwards just changes what number is on the clock face when the cows are ready to be milked.
  - tshaddox 6y ago
    > Moving the time of day backwards or forwards just changes what number is on the clock face when the cows are ready to be milked. Which changes whether the children are there to do the milking, or at school instead, right?
    - phaedryx 6y ago
      From my experience, cows need to be milked pretty early in the morning (e.g. 5:00am for my friends); early enough that it will always be before school regardless.
    - pwg 6y ago
      No, the cows need to be milked on the cows schedule, and the cows don't know what human time it is when they need to be milked. Moving the clock does not make the cows change their schedule.
      - tshaddox 6y ago
        Right, as I said, the cows' schedule does not change based on what the clock says, but whether the children are there or at school does change.
- tshaddox 6y ago
  I always assumed it was so the children could perform their unpaid farm labor before going to school, but that’s a guess based on no evidence whatsoever.

by ijidak 6y ago

ghaff 6y ago

The switch to DST for me is something along the lines of: "I've been noticing how it's getting measurably lighter in the evenings and now it's really light." (Of course, ST is the opposite effect.) I care less about light in the morning as I tend not to be a particular early bird and where I live it's pretty dark first thing in the morning even with ST.

phaedryx 6y ago

I grew up around farms and farmers. I never understood how DST was supposed to benefit them. The farm animals can't read a clock, they just follow their circadian rhythms and the farmers follow suit.

pwg 6y ago
It did not. That was a marketing excuse that was fed to the city dwellers. The farm animals do not understand the "time of day" on a human clock, so the farm work occurs around the animals rhythms, not the "clock on the wall". Moving the time of day backwards or forwards just changes what number is on the clock face when the cows are ready to be milked.
- tshaddox 6y ago
  > Moving the time of day backwards or forwards just changes what number is on the clock face when the cows are ready to be milked. Which changes whether the children are there to do the milking, or at school instead, right?
  - phaedryx 6y ago
    From my experience, cows need to be milked pretty early in the morning (e.g. 5:00am for my friends); early enough that it will always be before school regardless.
  - pwg 6y ago
    No, the cows need to be milked on the cows schedule, and the cows don't know what human time it is when they need to be milked. Moving the clock does not make the cows change their schedule.
    - tshaddox 6y ago
      Right, as I said, the cows' schedule does not change based on what the clock says, but whether the children are there or at school does change.
tshaddox 6y ago
I always assumed it was so the children could perform their unpaid farm labor before going to school, but that’s a guess based on no evidence whatsoever.