[ecaron]

Actually the farmers in my family have to reprogram their clocks twice a year to avoid DST, since cows are incredibly sensitive to their milking schedule and the twice-a-year hourly shift really screws with the herd.

I would go so far as to say that farmers hate DST more than programmers/sysadmins do.

[eru]

Why do farmers bother they cows with DST, then? Can't they just get up at the same (real) time?

[simias]

I think one of the problems is that the milk trucks and the rest of the industry do respect DST so if you lose one hour the milk might spoil. At least it's what I heard a farmer say on the TV a couple years ago.

[eru]

Thanks. That's the first time I heard that argument considered.