This quote is particularly, uh… particularly baffling:
“According to some senators, farmers complained that a two-month extension could adversely affect livestock, and airline officials said it would have complicated scheduling of international flights.”
Can’t the damn cows figure out how to turn back their Rolex watches?? And how in the world did they cope before humans began measuring time?
“Kids across the nation will soon rejoice,” said Upton, because they’ll have another hour of daylight trick-or-treating.
What??? Trick-or-treating is no fun in daylight! What is this dude thinking??
Maybe parents will rejoice because it’s a bit safer, but kids? I sure wouldn’t. Grmble.
Oh jeez. If I had any idea I wouldn’t have voted for him. What a stupid thing to say. I voted for him because he’s claimed to have been fighting to have I-94 widened between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. I guess I was wrong.
I remember that expanded daylight savings was tried back in the 70s, but I can’t remember whether it was during Nixon/Ford or during the Carter years. But then, I can’t remember whether a lot of things back then were during Nixon/Ford or during the Carter years.
What I do remember was that it didn’t save much energy then, either.
According to some senators, farmers complained that a two-month extension could adversely affect livestock, and airline officials said it would have complicated scheduling of international flights."
Can’t the damn cows figure out how to turn back their Rolex watches?? And how in the world did they cope before humans began measuring time?
I can’t comment on the airlines, but few farmers can actually make a living only farming nowdays. Most have “day jobs”.Careing for livestock has to work around beginning and quiting time at the outside job. Daylight savings time changes means the feeding schedule gets screwed up.(and in March cattle are still needing to be fed since the grass for grazing is only just starting then.
Cattle tell time (their version anyway) really well.
It was Carter, and it did save some energy; not as much as is saved in the summer. It got a bad rap, though, in that a lot of kids were hit by cars waiting for their buses in the morning, because they were going to school in the dard. It turned out in the end that the increase in those hit in the morning were about offset by the reduction in those hit in the afternoon.
And, geez, the airlines complaining that they can’t handle us going on DST at ta different time as the rest of the world? Well, we don’t have the same schedule as Europe (I was messed up by that once), and much of the rest of the world doesn’t have DST at all.
A lot of the older farmers here just refused to reset their clocks to daylight savings time. This is less of an option nowadays, as most people of necessity get out and about more.
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Trick-or-treating is no fun in daylight! What is this dude thinking??