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Number Fifteen.
Don't sleep beyond dawn. Dawn's when the French and Indians attack.
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Don't sleep beyond dawn. Dawn's when the French and Indians attack.
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Rise Up! Yawn...
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Interesting.
I'd bet many of those who work in a profession or even a office that produces something other than data would disagree.
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That was my point... it was set to manual, and it changed anyway.
We are always GMT-7 in AZ.
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Steve—I have simply been too busy to respond to this, but needed too because of my misconceptions. I have lived under the belief my entire life that DST was mandated to assistance and enhance agriculture. I read on Wikipedia (with good footnoted research in support) that “It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.” I have simply been wrong my entire life.
In fact, for the reasons I in-artfully expressed in my original post, farming groups have strongly lobbied against DST since it was first implemented. Like many posters here have expressed, it’s hard on their pups trying to make the change. Many farmers not only row-crop, but also practice animal husbandry. As anyone who keeps animals know, it’s important to keep them on a schedule, from a weiner dog to a milk cow.
For row croppers, dew points are dictated by the sun, so fooling with the clock just complicates things.
DST was first implemented here in WWI to “conserve” energy. Then again in WWII. And like so many governmental programs deeply entrenched into American life with little to no basis it just became policy. I think it is good that so many of these “that’s the way it’s always been” programs are being challenged and questioned.
I will say one other thing regarding your statement “ Don't even start with the "get it done before going to the office" because it simply does not work.” Steve from the time I was 10-12 years old until I moved away to college I had a couple of cows to milk, eggs to gather, a small herd of 50 cattle to feed (with square bales too, not these fancy round bales you move with equipment) and a small sheep flock to feed and tend. ALL this was done before school during the school year. Heck those critters did not even know it was my birthday or Thanksgiving or Christmas unless I told them! And they did not seem to care either.
When my dad added stock that required more time in the mornings I complained. I was told, “go to bed earlier and get up earlier if you are too slow to get your chores done!” I was already getting up at 5:00 a.m. to get everything done to be to school by 8:00.
Then I had another hour or two of work when I got home from school in the evenings after football practice. And that was before I could start homework, eat, etc.
I can assure you I was nothing special growing up. Dozens of other young men I knew had the same or similar work loads. I also bet there are a ton of members here that had greater, or the same or similar chores before and after school growing up too.
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Really? Start a dirty job in the morning before work and you are always up against a deadline to get cleaned up before you go to work. That clean up time is burning daylight. Start a job after you get home and you can work until you cannot see, and clean up when it's dark. Much better use of time for me.
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Pause for somebody to tell me to get up earlier.
