Anyone whose stomach is on a meal schedule that was well established for the last eight months will have to suffer until they adapt to Standard Time. If this is done for farmers, as I was told it was originally, I think the cows walking to the barn to be milked when their udders are full have the final say. If this is done to put us all into jet lag all at one time, it's working.
My eyes pop open when there's a certain amount of light out, usually dawn, no matter what time it has been decided it should be. When days start to get long again, that's when I'll be happy. The tilt of the earth to and from the sun, shooting stars and the gibbous moon are better guides - certainly more fun - than arbitrary moving up and falling back of an hour of time twice a year. Ugh, more coffee please.
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Dairy farmers were and remain among the loudest critics of the daylight/standard time switching that occurs twice a year. Cows still have not learned to tell time, except that when their udders are full, they need to be emptied--end of discussion. That's the only clock that counts. The change back and forth is often excused as particularly beneficial to school kids, so that they don't have to wait in the early morning darkness for their school buses. I have often wondered why schools simply don't change THEIR starting hours instead of having the entire nation fool with the forward and back nonsense. Make it either standard time or daylight time, but then quit fooling around with it!
One thing always leads to another, don't you think? It does seem awfully arbitrary and surprisingly difficult to adapt to. Thanks for your comment!
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