My dad did that one year lol. Refused to change his clocks or personal routine. Dunno if he was able to stick with it or not — but it was funny to hear him talk so seriously about why he “refuses to abide by such an arbitrary concept that makes his life harder, by having to adjust his body’s schedule”
His face had such a straight up “nope, fuck all that” look about it, it cracked me up lmao
“Excuse me sir on the tractor, what time is it?”
“It’s who gives a fuck o’clock, city boy.”
The only times of day I know are dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, dusk, and night. 24 hours are way more than you need.
I work for a Chinese company and my colleagues treat daylight savings time as an inexplicable religious ritual that they indulgently accommodate us ptimitives iin.
Ok but hes actually got it backwards. Standard time is those four months in winter, and we use daylight savings time during the summer.
True. But depending on where on earth you are located and what time zone that location follows, DST is closer to the real Solar Time (12 o’clock is Solar noon). Like Poland follows CEST but in the eastern part of the country the Solar time is close to an hour ahead. So DST is more in sync to the actual natural time.
Wasn’t there a bill recently to get rid of DST, and it got stalled in Congress or something?
I thought the news was that it was going to happen, but I haven’t kept up.
I found this from earlier this year…so, yeah, basically stalled in Congress.
The article says it’s political in the title, but it sounds more like they can’t be bothered to actually do the work if it passes because the world is already on fire… And to be honest, I kinda get that… Imagine all the software that would still be taking it into account that would need updating.
Plot twist: He lives in Arizona where the whole state does that
M night shamallamadingdong twist - He lives in part of the reservation that does observe daylight savings.
Indiana used to (mostly) ignore it, then I moved to L.A. and had to get used to it, then I moved back to Indiana a decade later and they’d started doing it. Argh!
Seems like a pretty reasonable course for a farmer to take. Livestock don’t have clocks, after all.
I did this one year. It was better. It just feels like normal time. I don’t actually remember it being a problem at all and my morning/evening was better.
He’s not a slave to big chronometer.
Some people willingly handcuff themselves to one.
Sure he does, becsuse all time-measuring devices of any sort in his house are analogue and have to be changed manually, and none them have phones which automatically corrects the time.
So in essences they have some clocks in theirs houses which are off by an hour for four months a year. They still use the time everyone else uses, because that’s how time works.
You can pretty easily disable automatic daylight savings time adjustments on most devices, even my car has the option.
Aye you can. But I just don’t believe in a whole family pretending to live in a different time than everybody else’s for 4 months.
I do believe in lazy shits who don’t manage to change all the clocks which don’t get automatically updated, but for that person to actually put in effort to dodge the Daylight savings time? Not believable imo. You’d have to be really fucking obstinate. And you’d have to get yourself wife and children to do it as well.
Digital clocks were a thing long before the internet.
Source?
With the amount of idiots online, I have no idea if this is sarcasm or a genuine request.
I’ve never seen an idiot online. Source?
Digital in sense of how they displayed time, sure, but not digital in how they update it. Not connected.
Not online. Offline clocks, I should’ve said.
Who would think digital clocks are newer than the Internet wth
That’s a lot of words to say he’s too lazy to change the clocks
You laugh but there’s a thing called “farm time” that’s exactly this and has been a thing in the rural Midwest in various places. I remember visiting my grandmother in Indiana as a kid and they had it there out in the middle of fuck-off nowhere.
Depending on how long ago you were a kid, that could’ve just been because Indiana as a state didn’t start observing DST until 2006, rural or not
80s & 90s.
Daylight Saving…
It’s for big candy big bbq to have more daylight to sell more candy and bbq before the sun goes down
research has proven time after time that the practice doesnt actually save energy or time in the modern age
