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In alt.os.linux.slackware, notbob dared to utter,
>> farmers get an extra hour of daylight to do their work.
>
> I don't understand why people keep attributing DST to farmers.

As a farmer, I think I'm most qualified to state that DST is a huge
help to us.

> Farmers
> don't structure their day by the clock. They work by the sun. When it's
> up, they work. When it's down, they don't. Numbers on a clock don't mean a
> damn thing.

Exactly, but everyone else structures their day by the clock. Now, when
the days get shorter, they get shorten on both ends so your mornings
come later and your evenings come sooner. By setting everyone's clock
back an hour in the fall, you effectively give farmers an extra hour in
the morning before everyone else gets their nine to five job started.

For the most part, this isn't an issue, but it is an issue for
churches. By falling back as it were, farmers have a chance to get the
things they simply must do at the beginning of the day done before
having to get dressed and rush to Sunday service.

- --
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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