On Daylight Savings
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Dear Editor:
I loved Sean McVeigh’s recent hilarious take on Daylight Savings Time (“McVeighing In: Daylight Saviors” 3/13/15).
I’d also like to add that, despite popular myth, DST has little to do with farmers. Farmers work from before sunrise and often past sunset. It doesn’t matter what the clock says. They go by the original timekeeper: the Sun.
Changing the clock one hour forward, sideways, or backward doesn’t move its rising and setting.
As the American Farm Bureau Federation puts it, “A later sunset doesn’t change when cows need to be milked, when chickens are fed or when crops need to be harvested.”
Thank you.
Dan Guarino
