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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 circadi
by 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 agoIt 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 agoFrom 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 agoNo, 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 agoRight, 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 agoI 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.