Damned Early Daylight Savings Time!

From my experience of working on the farm (along with my father's opinion on this), DST is horrible. We still work just as long in the fields doing planting. If a farmer slouches off because it gets dark earlier, he won't last in the business. I don't see the need to inch things an hour further, as it just takes an hour of sleep and gets our internal clocks out of whack.

I'm grateful that my old man doesn't want me to waste my free time on the farm anymore. Otherwise, it'd feel like getting up at 4am tomorrow because of this...

Our joke is that it is still carried out nowadays so that lawyers and politicians can get in an extra hour of golf =p But hey, we're but a couple of yokels. What do we know.

Still entitled to our opinions on the matter. Not here to debate it, just stating my opinion.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

I've heard that farmers don't like it, but I just don't get why. I mean, it's not like there is a specific time a farmer needs to start. After all, the cows wake up with the sun, not with the alarm. What does it matter what the time on the clock says to a farmer? There's still the same amount of daylight.

Well, farming is an endless list of jobs and labors that need to be handled. Most don't operate on a "40 Hour Work Week" basis. My old man works *at least* fourteen hours a day, six days a week.

Time is money, quite literally, and the sun makes a slave out of you. Every minute of sunlight is valuable and has to be made use of. Why not just work the normal amount of time? Because then you run a risk of falling behind. When a few weeks of rain hit you and ruin your progress, you end up quite far behind and need to bust your ass to catch up. As a result, you literally *have* to make use of as much time as you can. Slacking off will come back to haunt you.

This DST spiel throws things out of whack and leaves farmers often working an extra hour every day. If a farmer gets up at 5am, he'll still get up at that time irregardless of how long the sun will be out DST on *or* off. And he will keep working, along with his workers, until the sun goes down. As a result, my old man's work hours are extended from fourteen hours a day to fifteen hours a day. Instead of calling it a day at 7pm, they call it a day at 8pm.

That is why farmers hate daylight savings. Few folks have longer, harder days than them -- this I can say with certainty.

There's nowhere I can't reach.