Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time

Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by ukfarmer on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:08AM (#28628031)

UK farmer here. We're often cited as justification for BST vs GMT, but it's complete nonsense. We don't care! In fact, the discontinuity is a nuisance to us in many of the same ways as it is to city people.

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.

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by jack_riminton on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:30AM (#28628839)

Just out of interest how does a uk farmer find themselves on HN?

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by ukfarmer on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:14AM (#28629448)

Ah, I was on HN before I was a full-time farmer, and I still work on various free software stuff. After we sold the startup I co-founded to a large acquirer, I took on a Shropshire farm where I've been building a calf-rearing and beef enterprise.

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by mprev on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:56PM (#28632678)

Would it be intrusive to ask roughly where in Shropshire? I’m near Newport.

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by ukfarmer on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:35AM (#28641034)

Not at all: I'm between Ellesmere and Whitchurch, same end of the county as you.

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by jack_riminton on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:16AM (#28629481)

Ah that makes sense, thanks! living the dream that I hope to live one day

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by ukfarmer on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:16AM (#28630386)

The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start. You'll have fun, learn loads, find your strengths and weaknesses, etc.

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.

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by throw0101a on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:34PM (#28632391)

> The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start.

At the very least watch Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) make a fool of himself:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson%27s_Farm

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by jack_riminton on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:35AM (#28630714)

Sound advice. Do you have a blog or anything?

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by ukfarmer on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:41AM (#28641069)

Sorry, I don't I'm afraid. I have plenty of stories of my complete incompetence to relate, but I find it so much harder to motivate myself to write that kind of thing in the evenings than to tinker with software projects.

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by Chris2048 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:18AM (#28630427)

well, agro-tech is a thing. e.g. https://cattleeye.com/

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Re:Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time by aidenn0 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:25PM (#28633999)

There's some (literally) urban myth about it being for farmers in the US as well, but the farmers don't care here either.

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