txtig
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You go to work, it's dark, you get home from work, it's already dark again. It wears on you.
The obvious solution is to stop w*****g!!
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You go to work, it's dark, you get home from work, it's already dark again. It wears on you.
I wish they would just abandon the whole concept of DST.
I wish we'd stay on DST year-round (that is, just adjust all timezones 1 unit to the left). I much prefer having that extra daylight at the end of the day than in the morning. It's always depressing in the fall when we switch back to normal time. It was already getting dark too early, and then all of a sudden it gets dark WAAAY too early. You go to work, it's dark, you get home from work, it's already dark again. It wears on you.
I much prefer having that extra daylight at the end of the day than in the morning.
Even the cows grow a bit faster with the extra hour as they can eat longer. Imagine an extra hour a day just to eat and grow. It really makes a difference when you multiply the effect over millions of cattle.
Do cows have wristwatches?
haha. Of course they do not have wrist watches. They do understand an extra hour of daylight. They are a diurnal animal, and sleep at night. After DST, they can sleep less, and by default, graze more. An extra hour of grazing adds a lot of weight to the animal. Even free-range chickens benefit from this.
Of course that extra light comes from somewhere, and in the winter when we have an hour less, it makes up for that time. Generally, farmers only have older animals in the winter, and they are fully grown.
For a fully grown animal, you want them to eat less, and the shorter day when DST ends then saves feed.
But of course, most people are not farmers, so they do not understand these sophisticated concepts.
PerfectI think this says it best:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw
Even the cows grow a bit faster with the extra hour as they can eat longer. Imagine an extra hour a day just to eat and grow. It really makes a difference when you multiply the effect over millions of cattle.
Anyone here from Indiana, the state which until a few years ago had the most screwed-up rules about time zones and its partial observance of DST. I don't live there but I am glad it straightened them out by the time I went there back in 2014.
I think this says it best:
That's an understatement. Indiana used to have three times zones - it was very confusing to conduct business/arrange flights!I lived in Indiana for 30 years. The biggest problem was people that didn't understand we didn't change our time.
As a retired person - who cares... You wake up when you wake up... you go to sleep when you want.
That said - I have school age kids - so I do have to follow the DST ritual still....
That's an understatement. Indiana used to have three times zones - it was very confusing to conduct business/arrange flights!
Indiana "only" has two time zones now...
- 11 counties - 6 in NW Indiana near Chicagoand and 5 in SW Indiana near Evansville, Indiana observed the Central Daylight -Saving Time Zone.
- 5 counties in SE Indiana near Cincinnatti observed Eastern Daylight-Saving Time Zone.
- The rest of the state did not observe daylight savings until 2006.
I wish they would just abandon the whole concept of DST.