DST trauma

[mindstalk]

Daylight Saving Time takes weeks to adjust to.

The sun should be highest at noon, damn it.

Comments

[mlc23.livejournal.com]

Extrapolating from this quote, farmers don't like daylight savings in the winter:

"Following the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, Congress put most of the nation on extended Daylight Saving Time for two years in hopes of saving additional energy. This experiment worked, but Congress did not continue the experiment in 1975 because of opposition -- mostly from the farming states."

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Given that less than 5% of the inhabitants of the US now farm, I don't see any reason to particularly care what farmers think about this matter. This decision seems to me to be yet another way in which the vast majority of the US population (who are urbanites and suburbanites) must yield to a very small number of people in matters of convenience.