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Which fragment of society are you thinking time changing benefits? The common one I hear is farmers. Which is complete BS. Farmers work by the sun because the plants and animals they care for don't use clocks.

https://agamerica.com/blog/myth-vs-fact-daylight-saving-time...

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Farmers used to care, when they made broad use of their spawn to assist with harvests and chores. If the spawn gets out of school an hour earlier, that's an hour more labor they can do before the sun sets.

Wow, this is the first time I've actually understood the practical use of DST. Not that it's needed anymore, but that makes a lot of sense.

It's also kind of bullshit. Children can do some farm work, but the majority of farm work is going to be done by adults and teenagers.

Farmers have been mostly against DST since the beginning. It was golfers, bug catchers, and 7-11 that wanted it.

And permanent DST has failed when it was tried here in the 70s, in the UK a few years before that, and in Russia as recent as the 2010s. Why do we want to do it again?

the idea that DST happens for the farmers has always been pretty funny to me, because the one province in canada that doesn't observe DST is the province that has nothing but farmland.

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