This way, as the day progresses and I glance at the clock, I subliminally "time" my body cycle.
At least it sounds like an intellectual reply to a stupid practice.
Someone please explain to me how the cows are so much better off practicing "daylight savings time" ...
My uncle was a bachelor dairy farmer. He hated daylight savings time, but had a simple solution for it. He simply ignored it (and so did his cows). He explained: "It was no problem. You simply have to remember that the feed store closes an hour earlier in the summer."
Cows and their caretakers do not practice DST. Every dairy I am involved with across middle America keeps the same schedule of hours for their cows. The feedings and milking continue in the same sequence of hours as always no matter what the clock says or how the handlers feel about it. It is a matter of health and output.