https://xkcd.com/2846

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

    • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’m not a farmer, but farmers don’t really care for daylight savings time. Cows don’t understand it, and won’t wait an extra hour to be milked. It takes them time to adjust to the change, and in meantime either the farmer has to get there an hour earlier by the clock or the cows will be in pain, possibly sustaining real injury from being overly full of milk.

      An extra hour of dark in the morning isn’t useful for planting or weeding or harvesting, either.

      • credit crazy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        “The cows don’t understand it” honestly that’s the point that makes it hard to believe daylight savings is for farmers the cows horses the crops and the chickens all don’t operate on daylight savings time if anything daylight savings time probably hurts farmers by giving them a nother thing to keep track of that makes it so you need to get adjusted real quick otherwise the cows are going to get over full of milk because the farmer watching the clock forgot its a hour behind what he got used to wouldn’t be surprised if some farmers in the past had two separate clocks one that got adjusted to daylight savings and the other shows the time the farm operated on

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      1 year ago

      I grew up on a farm. We started before it was daylight, didn’t matter what time was on the clock.

      Why would the time on a clock matter to a self-employed farmer?

      • flicker@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        When I asked that question once I was informed it had something to do for some reason with when the children of farmers would be let out of school (and thus able to help with chores) but honestly it sounds like bullshit to me.

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          1 year ago

          We’d have people miss whole weeks of school due to farming duties…

          Especially earlier than that, school always took a second seat. If there was work to be done, the kids weren’t in school