Keen grasp of the obvious here. DST was invented for dairy farmers who milked by hand and had no electric light.
Farmers had nothing to do with it. They work when it’s light, they don’t really care what the clock says. It’s generally been pushed by people who want more hobby time after work, and couldn’t be bother to shift their own schedule so they convinced the government to make EVERYBODY change their schedule.
Keen grasp of the obvious here. DST was invented for dairy farmers who milked by hand and had no electric light.
That makes no sense. Cows are normally milked 12 hours apart. Daylight savings time only goes into effect during the summer, when there is more daylight hours. How would it help them from the routine they have in winter?
The dairy farms I worked on HATED daylight savings time because the cows still expected to be milked at the same time. So if they normally started milking at 6 am during standard time, DST required them to start at 5 am. They would do a gradual shift in start time instead of a one 13 hour cycle. Changing the cows routine usually meant a decrease in milk production.