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Old 10-25-2018, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Embarrassing, WA
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I don't like the switching back and forth. Just need to pick one and stick with it.
The switch affects everything, one of our family friends with cows joked about how they would be there waiting to be fed an hour early after DST ended. In reality he was an hour late feeding them
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Old 10-26-2018, 03:56 AM
 
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I dread going off DST here in the PNW. More gloom. I don’t have school-age kids anymore, it must suck for them. My kid grew up in a sunnier climate, and the first days and weeks after switching to standard time in the fall were even difficult there.
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Old 10-26-2018, 04:28 AM
 
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Oh, yeah, I think I remember being told by my father that DST was begun to give the farmers more light to bring in the harvest, my parents started life as farmers.

All the same, I do my happy dance when DST begins, Standard time, meh, that’s when I start fantasizing about Arizona.
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Old 10-26-2018, 10:47 AM
 
Location: Rochester, WA
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Oh, yeah, I think I remember being told by my father that DST was begun to give the farmers more light to bring in the harvest, my parents started life as farmers.

All the same, I do my happy dance when DST begins, Standard time, meh, that’s when I start fantasizing about Arizona.

Farmers have never cared what time it is. It was NOT started by farmers.
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Old 10-26-2018, 12:29 PM
 
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Farmers have never cared what time it is. It was NOT started by farmers.
Uh, yeah farmers did not start it, I learned it was started FOR farmers. If not, who started it, when and why??
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Old 10-26-2018, 12:57 PM
 
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They should keep DST year round
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Old 10-26-2018, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Rochester, WA
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Uh, yeah farmers did not start it, I learned it was started FOR farmers. If not, who started it, when and why??

It has nothing to do with farmers. Farmers don't work by the clock. The animals don't care what time it is.



It apparently has to do with the government wanting to conserve energy during war time...


History & info - Daylight Saving Time, early adoption, U.S. law
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Old 10-26-2018, 02:48 PM
 
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Uh, yeah farmers did not start it, I learned it was started FOR farmers. If not, who started it, when and why??
You can thank Kaiser Wilhelm and WW1 for it. Absolutely nothing to do with or for farming. They don't live by the clock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw
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Old 10-29-2018, 11:38 PM
 
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It has nothing to do with farmers. Farmers don't work by the clock. The animals don't care what time it is.



It apparently has to do with the government wanting to conserve energy during war time...


History & info - Daylight Saving Time, early adoption, U.S. law

Farmers also work/ed with CROPS, not just livestock. Wheat, corn, etc. had to be harvested, and it was much easier to do this in DAYLIGHT. I am talking about the early 20th century family farms, not the corporate farming or hobby farms of today.
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Old 10-30-2018, 12:27 AM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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So...here we go again...

Clocks back one hour at 2 AM on Sunday morning November 4th. So get ready for a sunset in Seattle at 4:47 next Sunday afternoon, leading to a sunset of 4:19 at the winter solstice.

With year round daylight saving times, add an hour in the afternoon (5:19pm winter sunset), subtract an hour in the morning (8:55am winter sunrise).

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