[Info-vax] Time change

sol gongola sol at adldata.com
Wed Mar 11 09:10:15 EDT 2009


AEF wrote:
> On Mar 10, 10:31 pm, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
> wrote:
>> AEF <spamsink2... 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)
> 
> OTOH, farmers in the rest of the country manager to deal with it.
> OTFH, they may not like it either.
> 
> AEF

OTFH? you meant OTGH?



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