My solution. During day, add 13 o’clock to afternoon. Adding one hour of daylight at nightfall. At 13:59, clock goes to 1:00 pm. Then, at 10:59 pm, clock goes to 1:00 o’clock am. Still 24 hour day. More daylight. I hate this darkness coming at 5 pm. Not enough daylight to milk cows, slop hogs, and gather eggs from the hen house.
We DO have these things called lights...
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But yeah...dark at 5 sucks.
My uncle, a bachelor farmer, had those problems, and more. He hated daylight savings time, but he had an easy solution. He simply stayed on standard time year-round.
He said that there was only one problem with that: "I have to remember that the feed store closes an hour early in the summer."
Not enough daylight to milk cows, slop hogs, and gather eggs from the hen house
I’ve never known a farmer to care what the clock says - suns up, they’re already doing all the work. Sun goes down, the finish what they’re working as safely as possible, and go in to warsh up for supper. The clock is just a way to communicate to others how long a task took, or what time they started.
PrairieLady2 - my body is naturally on ‘standard time’, and for the 9 months we’re on ‘savings time’, I am miserable and cannot get started, then feel as if I’m running being for everything. During the ‘standard time’ months, I wake naturally (even before the alarm goes off), go to bed/sleep without problems, etc.
Mr. Mohasky - I understand about being dark when you go to/from work, but here’s the rub. It’s dark then anyway. maybe you can convince your boss to change the shifts to an hour different. Instead of legislating changes for the entire country, think small, and optional. Why? Because that’s what we’re supposed to be about - less of “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS”, and more of “You can do this, or that, or that, or nothing”.
wintertime - Children struggle with the jump forward, yes, but seem to have no problem going back to ‘standard’ time - at least my three don’t.