Don't forget this weekend

older_fossil wrote:


I remember hearing that dairy cows need to be milked in the morning based on their own internal 24 hour clocks, not on the farmer's clock, but that the milk processors changed to the new time, creating a scheduling problem.

Art

Grew up on a dairy farm back before MI went to Extra Dumb Stupid Time (EDST) in the summers,, and in fact was still on the farm when they made the change..

I can tell you this is not precisely accurate but close enough.
The cows (or the heard dog) basically know when to head to the barn and it's tough getting them to come in sooner)

Dick_B wrote:
I'm for DST all the time in the midwest. Somehow I remember that the farmers had problems with the time change but the reasons escape me.

I remember hearing that dairy cows need to be milked in the morning based on their own internal 24 hour clocks, not on the farmer's clock, but that the milk processors changed to the new time, creating a scheduling problem.

Art

MrWizard wrote:
To dang early in the year, makes no sense to me
Always mucks up my mornings for several weeks
My body and Soul have to adjust, not ready for the alarm and wake up

Yea, so tired of changing clocks twice a year.

Dick_B wrote:
I'm for DST all the time in the midwest. Somehow I remember that the farmers had problems with the time change but the reasons escape me.

Electric lights changed everything. Had to look it up and they gave 1918 as when it was implemented for WW1 then done away with and brought back for WW2 and has remained.

Reminds me of a telephone tax that was implemented to pay for the Spanish American war before finally being eliminated in the 1980's.

azdryheat wrote:
You can skip Arizona. When will DST go the way of the buggy whip? Not needed these days.

On this AZ we agree.. I mean which costs less
Messing with the clocks 2x a year or a ONE TIME change of the door sign to say "9-5 winter 8-4 summer" or some such (Actual dates)
and Dolly to sing "Working 8 to 4" in the summer time?

All the millions of dollars which will be wasted to day re-setting clocks is amazing.

Thankfuly my most important (Alarm) clock re-sets itself being a computer.

edatlanta wrote:
I think we should adopt DST full time. Spring forward and stay that way.

I'd vote for that! :). Used to be that way and I loved it.
Barney

edatlanta: X2
Daylight savings all the time. After all who's to say standard time is the correct time to use as a standard?

I'm for DST all the time in the midwest. Somehow I remember that the farmers had problems with the time change but the reasons escape me.

After you get done here you can go over to Class A and remove the sales post in the wrong forum by Idle-up

but it will be lighter later!

But dark again when we get up in the morning.

Yup, DST should go away IMHO. There is some evidence now that DST has negative health effects on people.