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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by cheald on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:31PM (#16547795)
Arizona doesn't observe DST and hasn't since 1968. It works great, and the rest of the country should follow suit, IMO. We're no longer a nation of farmers whose work depends on daylight.
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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by blang on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:40PM (#16547877)
From what I understand farmers hate DST more than anyone. They tend to wake up at dawn and shifting the time an hour gives them an hour less time until the rest of the area wakes.
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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by gowld on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:50PM (#16547982)
Why do farmers care when other people wake up?
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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by cheald on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:54PM (#16548019)
Interesting, good to know!
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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by bena on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:37PM (#16547842)
It was never about the farmers.

It was always about saving fuel during wartime. Farmers dislike DST.

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by dvtv75 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:57PM (#16548056)
If I ever get a time machine and meet George Hudson, I will punch him squarely in the face. He wanted some time after work to look at insects, and because of that we have DST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hudson_(entomologist)

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by squiggleblaz on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:23AM (#16549964)
That's unreasonable. Lots of people advocate for bad ideas. But George Hudson was never in any politically powerful position. It took others to introduce daylight savings.

Notwithstanding, I am pleased we have daylight savings. It makes me happy and seems like an appropriate and proportionate response to the variation in length of the day.

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