On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:38:30 +1000, Chris Angelico <[email protected]>
declaimed the following:
>Yeah, I have no idea where the "farmers" explanation came from.
>Growing up, we had some friends in countrified areas, including a
>sheep farmer who showed us a ton of stuff about how shearing worked,
>how moronic sheep are, and how farming life actually operates. It's
>not uncommon for such people to have two clocks: Government Time and
>Sun Time. Like you say, no cow wears a watch!
>
Not only do the cattle not have timepieces -- but they probably expect
to be milked /n/-hours after the prior milking.
I think the DST was meant for industrialization -- factories wouldn't
have to run expensive artificial lighting for part of the day-shift; there
would be more natural light falling in through the south facing windows on
the roof of the building.
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