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• Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There used to be a reason, for farmers to have more light in the morning.

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  • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a myth. Farmers in the US lobbied against the change. Animals and crops don’t care about the time, so it just meant they had to start work earlier on the clock.

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  • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why cant farmers just set their alarm an hour earlier though, no need to drag everyone else into this

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    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Apparently this was a myth, but I’m against it, I voted in CA to pass a law where we don’t have to do it and yet we still do. No one wants day light savings time

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      • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No I want permanent daylight savings. I want to spring forward and not fall back.

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  • ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I never understood this argument because farmers are the least likely job to use the clock to tell them when to work… The idea of a farmer waiting for 8am to clock in is ridiculous.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s nothing to do with farmers. I don’t know where people got that idea.

      Farmers get up when it’s daylight and you can see, what time it is isn’t relevant. It’s not like the animals know what daylight saving is so if they don’t get fed when they expect it, they’ll kick up a fuss.

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      • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        where people got that idea

        Political propaganda

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    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It gave them more day light in the morning

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      • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Because the hens, pigs and cows came out an hour early, right?

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      • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        How does it give them more daylight? The amount of hours between sunrise and sunset is not dependent on our clocks.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s got nothing to do with farmers. So whether or not farmers find daylight savings useful (I think the split is roughly 50/50) is irrelevant.

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  • Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you check farmers’ out they can still do the same amount of work in daylight hours.

    Daylight savings’ history is actually more white than you think. The law was passed by politicians that just wanted to golf earlier. Farmers are commonly used as the excuse because every accusations is a confession.

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  • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This was never the reason. It was to do with factories saving on electric lighting during WWI, by getting their workers out an hour earlier. Then after WWII we just kept it going for some reason

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• nightlily@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  New Zealand‘s worst invention. Closely followed by instant coffee.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  During the second World War we had double save lights savings. So it went 12 a.m. 1am. 2am. 12am

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