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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Plot twist: He lives in Arizona where the whole state does that

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 5 hours ago

Indiana used to (mostly) ignore it, then I moved to L.A. and had to get used to it, then I moved back to Indiana a decade later and they'd started doing it. Argh!

[–] Lennny 2 points 6 hours ago

M night shamallamadingdong twist - He lives in part of the reservation that does observe daylight savings.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Props to this man. Animals don’t follow daylight savings and it’s easier to keep a farm on standard time.

No, daylight savings was not invented for farmers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Amen. It's like cutting the foot off a blanket and sewing it to the top, imagining you have a longer blanket, to borrow an analogy.

[–] Dasus 15 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sure he does, becsuse all time-measuring devices of any sort in his house are analogue and have to be changed manually, and none them have phones which automatically corrects the time.

So in essences they have some clocks in theirs houses which are off by an hour for four months a year. They still use the time everyone else uses, because that's how time works.

[–] Weslee 14 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

You can pretty easily disable automatic daylight savings time adjustments on most devices, even my car has the option.

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[–] Buddahriffic 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Digital clocks were a thing long before the internet.

[–] Dasus 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Digital in sense of how they displayed time, sure, but not digital in how they update it. Not connected.

Not online. Offline clocks, I should've said.

Who would think digital clocks are newer than the Internet wth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Oh, sure they are. The one I'm using has been around for 50 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77

Half the clocks sold here do support it, and even many "analog" (as in the clock face) ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Doctors and scientists argue that standard time is better for our health. Our internal clock is better aligned with getting light in the morning, which, in turn, sets us up for better sleep cycles.

Obviously.

[–] Dasus 3 points 14 hours ago

The time-keeping in Central Europe is a bit different than ours here in the Nordics I see.

Either I'm so high that I've forgotten, or I learned something new from reading that. Thanks. TIL.

[–] Iheartcheese 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

With the amount of idiots online, I have no idea if this is sarcasm or a genuine request.

[–] Iheartcheese 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen an idiot online. Source?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Excuse me sir on the tractor, what time is it?”

“It’s who gives a fuck o’clock, city boy.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

The only times of day I know are dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, dusk, and night. 24 hours are way more than you need.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (16 children)

They always used to claim daylight savings was for farmers, even though farmers are probably the people in society who least have to follow the same daily schedule as anyone else.

[–] TheKracken 7 points 22 hours ago

You can blame this fuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hudson_(entomologist) He wanted more time to look at bugs after work.

[–] Crashumbc 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I watched a documentary on it, it was actually a war thing. Back then many factories didn't have lights so they could adjust to the sun easier using DST.

It was only implemented during WWI and WWII until sometime in the sixties when it became permanent.

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[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 day ago (8 children)

The amount of times I've heard someone say 'its for the farmers' as if farmers have ever given a fuck what the clock says.

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