Time-dependent natural processes don't reconfigure themselves when some administrative body decides to shuffle the names of various times of day. If my cows want breakfast at 6am and you shift the clocks forward, they'll start shouting for Food Man(tm) at 5am instead.
The great thing is, if you are able to juggle tech stuff and farm work, each feels a bit like time-off from the other because they're so different.
At the very least watch Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) make a fool of himself:
There are 2 options, either going with summer time permanently which seems the most sensible approach in theory and what they did with the British Summer time experiment. The problem is that although having longer evenings in winter sounds good in theory it means that it's dark until 10am in the depths of winter and roads are icier when people are making their morning commute.
The other option is to keep standard time, but that will mean losing the late evenings in summer and the sun rising even earlier which would be a loss.
I don't see what the big issue people have with it is. It makes perfect sense for northern/southern latitudes and essentially all my clocks adjust themselves automatically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time#Periods_of...
Some people hated it, mostly Scots. In the south of England it was popular (I was there).
Now I live in Norway rather further north than most of the UK and guess what we really don't find it difficult to go to work in the dark and nor do children find it hard to get safely to school (that last was the Scottish argument against permanent summer time).
Edit: type No -> Now
I used to be in camp DST year round. Now I don’t really care because I mostly get up when I want which varies from day to day.
Would we assume parents are walking their children to school, hence need to start work later? If that's the case, why does it matter how dark it is?
Personally I don’t care much these days but many do.
"It won't last brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like English men and Scots or Welshmen and Scots or Japanese and Scots or Scots and other Scots. Darn Scots they ruined Scotland."
Guess we can add DST to that.
Guilty as charged. South west though, not posh!
The issue is that the sudden change in sleep times is a really large problem for a lot of people. It even causes extra deaths.
The main effect of BST vs GMT on farm life is the unexpected one hour jump in the times of day that non-farm stuff happens, e.g. deliveries, times you can phone business, when the vet closes, etc.