MMB wrote:
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> Peter Mayer wrote:
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> > In parts of Australia it is claimed that daylight savings tends to
> > bleach curtains (all that extra UV?) and confuses dairy cows!
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> I have no comment on the bleached drapes but re those poor dairy cows,
> yes, they are confused by daylight savings. Why? Because farmers milk
> them an hour earlier. My brother is setting up King Island Long Life
> Milk and is dreading the complaints from thousands of dairy cows whose
> milk supply is already fluctuating as a response to the altered hours of
> milking :-)
>
> This is a true story.
>
> Re Fernando's comment about how DST plays havoc with health, I do know
> that having to rise that hour earlier in the dark and spend a longer
> time in chill air each morning was a very different start to staying in
> bed and rising when it was warmer. I guess more sensitive systems than
> mine could react badly.
>
> But those curtains....??? Hmmmm....
>
> Maria Brandl
> Tasmania
Can cows read sundials? Of course they can!
Fernando once (recently) wrote "I just want to know if it is worthwhile for a
farmer
to pay attention to the moon cycle. [...]"
Then what about the sun cycle?
If you care for the fate of salads, why laugh at these poor cows, ...and at the
other poor beings to whom an hour change is imposed without knowing what effect
it can have... Children, for example, are often said to be rather obviously
perturbated for several days.
Now, jet lag specialists consider a day per hour change is a minimum rate for
recovery (for adults)...
So, we all do adapt: but saying it has no effects is maybe just too quick...
Thierry
Still on UTC+2 at 4.2E.
