Daylight savings

The amount of times I've heard someone say 'its for the farmers' as if farmers have ever given a fuck what the clock says.

My dad did that one year lol. Refused to change his clocks or personal routine. Dunno if he was able to stick with it or not — but it was funny to hear him talk so seriously about why he "refuses to abide by such an arbitrary concept that makes his life harder, by having to adjust his body's schedule"

His face had such a straight up "nope, fuck all that" look about it, it cracked me up lmao

“Excuse me sir on the tractor, what time is it?”

“It’s who gives a fuck o’clock, city boy.”

I’ve never heard anyone who likes DST… this thread confirms my bias. Arizona has it right. We have internet now, no need to change clocks, just update your schedules for the season.

Props to this man. Animals don’t follow daylight savings and it’s easier to keep a farm on standard time.

No, daylight savings was not invented for farmers

They always used to claim daylight savings was for farmers, even though farmers are probably the people in society who least have to follow the same daily schedule as anyone else.

I work for a Chinese company and my colleagues treat daylight savings time as an inexplicable religious ritual that they indulgently accommodate us ptimitives iin.

Ok but hes actually got it backwards. Standard time is those four months in winter, and we use daylight savings time during the summer.

He’s not a slave to big chronometer.

Wasn't there a bill recently to get rid of DST, and it got stalled in Congress or something?

If it's only four months then he doesn't care about standard time, we are actually on daylight savings time for the majority of the year.

Which is pretty wild when you think about it. The darkest, coldest, most depressing time if the year we let the sun set super early.

I did this one year. It was better. It just feels like normal time. I don't actually remember it being a problem at all and my morning/evening was better.

Seems like a pretty reasonable course for a farmer to take. Livestock don't have clocks, after all.

Plot twist: He lives in Arizona where the whole state does that

That's what I do with the automated cat feeders. Cats do not observe daylight savings time.

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Sure he does, becsuse all time-measuring devices of any sort in his house are analogue and have to be changed manually, and none them have phones which automatically corrects the time.

So in essences they have some clocks in theirs houses which are off by an hour for four months a year. They still use the time everyone else uses, because that's how time works.

Isn't daylight savings time 8 months of the year? The four "winter" months are when we're on standard time, so seems like it would be pretty easy to ignore DST during those 4 months. Or maybe I am misinterpreting?

When working with a flexible schedule I do this too. Having your own timezone can be convinient.

This is the level of not giving a damn I want to reach.

Respect! Guy's got his own time zone.

I'm just going to use UTC, nothing is going to stop me, my neighbors? Get fucked learn to convert.

You laugh but there's a thing called "farm time" that's exactly this and has been a thing in the rural Midwest in various places. I remember visiting my grandmother in Indiana as a kid and they had it there out in the middle of fuck-off nowhere.

It’s for big candy big bbq to have more daylight to sell more candy and bbq before the sun goes down

Daylight Saving…

That's a lot of words to say he's too lazy to change the clocks

research has proven time after time that the practice doesnt actually save energy or time in the modern age

I kind of do the same. I work 6:30am to 2:30pm for most of the year, but do 5:30am to 1:30pm during daylight savings time. It's nice to see the sun for a little bit after work.

Meanwhile the East doesn’t even think about this unlike the still-developing West with it’s DST concept

Who still needs to change their clock manually? Even my 12hr analog clock adjusts itself automatically.