On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:38:30 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>Yeah, I have no idea where the "farmers" explanation came from. >Growing up, we had some friends in countrified areas, including a >sheep farmer who showed us a ton of stuff about how shearing worked, >how moronic sheep are, and how farming life actually operates. It's >not uncommon for such people to have two clocks: Government Time and >Sun Time. Like you say, no cow wears a watch! > Not only do the cattle not have timepieces -- but they probably expect to be milked /n/-hours after the prior milking. I think the DST was meant for industrialization -- factories wouldn't have to run expensive artificial lighting for part of the day-shift; there would be more natural light falling in through the south facing windows on the roof of the building. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfr...@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list