[Info-vax] Time change

[Michael Moroney]

AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:

>On Mar 10, 3:04 pm, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
>wrote:
>> during WW2.  Farmers don't care for it (cows don't care for being milked
>> an hour later all of a sudden)

>So why don't the farmers schedule their cow-milking via Standard Time
>year-round? They could rewrite the milking schedule the same way we IT-
>ers reschedule jobs on systems that run on UTC.

Because their human-related schedules remain on DST.

A farmer may have a standard time schedule like:

Milk cows at 7:00
Go to grange meeting at 8:00

and on DST this becomes:

Milk cows at 8:00
Go to grange meeting at 8:00 (oops)