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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Congress considering changes to Daylight Savings
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 19:41:00 EST
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    Another thing, I've never understood why the farmers are always upset with
    DST.  Anyone care to elaborate?

Don't know about modern corporate farmers, but the farmers I knew when
I was growing up didn't use clocks.  They got up a little before sunrise
and went to bed when the work was done.

When you are on sun time, and everyone else goes onto daylight time,
it appears to you that the rest of the world is now doing everything
an hour earlier than they used to (because their clocks tell them it
is now an hour later than it used to).  So if you run into town after
a hard day in the fields, you find that the store has already closed.

I notice the same effect in my commute to work.  I have a strong tendency
to staying on sun time.  As spring progresses, the traffic gets lighter
every day in the morning, because people are leaving for work later
every day (with respect to sun time).  Then suddenly, one day, everyone
starts leaving for work an hour earlier than they did the week before,
and traffic is heavy again.  What a drag.  But my big objection is to
keeping track of when the switch is, and changing my clocks, and trying
to figure out how it affects my schedule.  I guess if I worked a 9-5
job and were forced onto clock time, the confusion wouldn't be as bad.