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> And if you ask a farmer about it, they'll tell you "the animals don't read clocks". To them it doesn't really matter, they get up with the sun regardless of what the clock says.

Dairy truck drivers do. They'll want to pick up the day's milk at ~6am. Daylight savings change makes dairy farmers wake up before they otherwise would have to.




Honest question: why wouldn't they just get up earlier, instead of implementing a system that affects everyone?


DST is what makes them have to get up earlier. Dairy farmers (or any other kind of farmer) are/were generally against DST, despite the common myth it was created for them[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-day...




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