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Props to this man. Animals don’t follow daylight savings and it’s easier to keep a farm on standard time.
No, daylight savings was not invented for farmers
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“Excuse me sir on the tractor, what time is it?”
“It’s who gives a fuck o’clock, city boy.”
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They always used to claim daylight savings was for farmers, even though farmers are probably the people in society who least have to follow the same daily schedule as anyone else.
I watched a documentary on it, it was actually a war thing. Back then many factories didn't have lights so they could adjust to the sun easier using DST.
It was only implemented during WWI and WWII until sometime in the sixties when it became permanent.
I always thought it was for office workers and was essentially a green energy program. I've never heard an argument that it had anything to do with farmers, especially since farmers set their schedule by dawn and dusk.
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You laugh but there's a thing called "farm time" that's exactly this and has been a thing in the rural Midwest in various places. I remember visiting my grandmother in Indiana as a kid and they had it there out in the middle of fuck-off nowhere.
Depending on how long ago you were a kid, that could've just been because Indiana as a state didn't start observing DST until 2006, rural or not
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Wasn't there a bill recently to get rid of DST, and it got stalled in Congress or something?
I thought the news was that it was going to happen, but I haven't kept up.
I found this from earlier this year...so, yeah, basically stalled in Congress.
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That's what I do with the automated cat feeders. Cats do not observe daylight savings time.
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Seems like a pretty reasonable course for a farmer to take. Livestock don't have clocks, after all.