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Wasn't daylight savings time designed specifically for this man?
No. Cows need milking at the same time of day every day regardless of how humans fuck with the clock.
Yeah, but they are able to adapt to it too.
They eventually do, but it can take several weeks and a noticeable amount of lost production and hence income. Growing up on a dairy farm, switching back and forth sucked for the cows and the rest of the livestock.
Farmers as a rule dislike DST. And I still do.
It's a common myth that farmers want daylight savings, but farmers are actually usually quite opposed to it. Daylight savings was originally proposed as a way to conserve energy, but it wasn't put into practice until the world wars, where energy conservation was actually important.
Why Do We Have Daylight Saving Time? – History.com
TIL! Tbh I never understood why it was necessary from a farm management perspective. Like, even the farmer has to change their clocks so how does it help them?
Daylight Saving Time. No second S.