You trade an hour of daylight in the morning for an hour in the afternoon. Big woop most people would rather have an hour of daylight in their free time in the afternoon than an hour during the morning commute to their slave dens. Less than 2% of the U.S.economy is agrarian which is.and always will be the reason for DST so you had more time to harvest in the fall months with natural daylight before it got dark in the evenings. Not messing up a person’s sleep pattern is reason enough we are not an agricultural society anymore let’s move into the 21st century. Arizona doesn’t do DST at all. So many bitter hearts it’s sad so many live in misery that any good idea from the government is immediately bad because it’s the government who said it sometimes like not living in the 19th century in a farm time schedule it actually is a good.idea.
Ah what the hell ... without DST during May and June the sun will be rising at about 4 a.m. here in California.
The grain doesn’t care what time it is, your postulating that DST was for the farmer is complete and utter nonsense.
DST was brought in so that factories and cities used less artificial lighting (including gas lighting, kerosene lanterns, and candles) during the FIRST world war.
It had less than NOTHING to do with farmers, who are up before the sun most of the time even today.
Not a farmer and all that, but wouldn't they (farmers) just do the work whenever it was light? It's not like DST actually reduced the number of daylight hours.