[leftcoaster]

Re: affecting livestock

The issue is the change-over from ST to DT and vice-versa. Dairy animals are especially affected by changes in their milking schedule.

I'm not sure how moving the date of change up a month in the Spring (now late Winter) and a week later in the autumn makes a difference, though. It is the disruption to the schedule that is the problem, not necessarily which weekend it happens to take place.

Of course the farmer could keep his milking schedule the same irrespective of the the time change (e.g., 6AM on ST and 5AM on DT), but that messes up HIS schedule relative to meetings, appointments, repair shop hours, and other human-related activities that are changed with the local time change.

[leftcoaster]

...and I screwed up the example.

It would be 5AM on ST and 6AM on DT in order to make no changes from Bossie's point of view.

[TexasTransplant]

>>>but that messes up HIS schedule relative to meetings, appointments, repair shop hours, and other human-related activities that are changed with the local time change<<<

Sounds more like a Business Opportunity to me, I have always held the opinion that Clock Watchers should lose, if they are more concerned about "what time it is" than "completing the task or mission"

Sounds more like "Clock Watchers" are inconvenienced therefore irritated.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Dairy animals are especially affected by changes in their milking schedule."

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Why would their milking schedules change? All farmers have to do is schedule milking for (say) 7:00 a.m. during standard time and 8:00 a.m. during savings time, and that way the cows are milked at the same (actual) time each day. And if milking is done 1 hour after sunrise or something, then it won't matter what the farmer's watch says, he goes out at 6:30 a.m. or 7:30 a.m. depending of whether there's savings time or not. I don't see the problem.

Besides, the milking-schedule "problem" exists under our current 6-month Daylight Savings Time system, and having 4 additional weeks of DST would merely change the date in which there was a changeover from ST to DST and back, not increase the number of times it changes a year.

[Polybius]

Of course the farmer could keep his milking schedule the same irrespective of the the time change (e.g., 6AM on ST and 5AM on DT), but that messes up HIS schedule relative to meetings, appointments, repair shop hours, and other human-related activities that are changed with the local time change.

Well, tell ya what.....Up here in Washington State, I dread the coming of Standard Time in the Fall.

It starts to drizzle non-stop for six months, you drive to work in the dark and you drive home after work in the dark. They call the mass depression that sets in Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

Forget about flouride. When Standard Time comes around, we need Prozac in the Washington State drinking water.

How about this: Let's set the clocks to maximize daylight after I get off work from October through March and the dairy farmers can suck it up in order to cater to MY schedule.

[foreverfree]

FWIW the clock portion of my VCR has a DST on/off function. When the time change's change takes effect, I'll just deprogram the automatic DST changeover function.

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