Chickens Don't Do Daylight Savings

[Hermits Garden]

Not to be political, but I'm in favor of no daylight savings ever.

I consider it fundamentally arrogant to redefine Noon other than as the time when the sun is highest in the sky and, on principle, I resent being forced to lie about that reality on a moral level.

If people want more free time in the evening there is such a thing as "summer hours" and businesses can adopt them as they please.

Up here in the White Mtns, it's a tourist economy, and just about every business has "summer hours" because our populace quadruples during the summer!

Edited to add: I'm totally with you on wishing to abolish DST forever. It's an artificial construct developed when the US was primarily an ag economy. Even then, it was just dumb. Farmers have managed to work with natural sunrise and set for how long before DST?

 

[3KillerBs]

Up here in the White Mtns, it's a tourist economy, and just about every business has "summer hours" because our populace quadruples during the summer!

We're tourists all year -- golf in a mild climate -- but all the construction and landscape people swap hours around according to the season as do some of the factories that don't have heat or AC.

People can adapt without a government mandate.

 

[Farmgirl1878]

We're up at 4:30 every morning for work and to start the day--our body clocks are permanently messed up, I think. And during the summer I have to get the dog out and have her walked by 5:30 or 6 in the mornings or she gets too hot. It's not hot here, but she started getting overheated at 70 degrees in the sun. (Half Great Pyrenees and LOVES snow.)

You are fortunate to set your own hours!

I’m right there with the dog. I‘m a redhead, so can’t take anything more than 75° and spontaneously combust in the sun! If I could figure out a way to air condition the chicken yard, I’d soooooo do it!

 

[theoldchick]

I have a 13 year old hen who does not appreciate early feeding times. She gives me that old lady look and stays on her roost. And my parrot, well...let's just say he shouts his opinion in the most robust manner when I show up before daylight.

 

[Sally PB]

Because I'm on the far west side of Eastern time, today solar noon was at 1:39 pm.

I looked to see when the earliest was, and it was 12:24 pm the day we changed from DST to EST last November.

The latest was 1:50 pm the day we went back to DST.

For about 3 weeks from the last third of July through the beginning of August, it's at 1:47 (and seconds).

If this kind of thing interests you, I got the info here:

https://sunrise-sunset.org/us

 

[Farmgirl1878]

I have a 13 year old hen who does not appreciate early feeding times. She gives me that old lady look and stays on her roost. And my parrot, well...let's just say he shouts his opinion in the most robust manner when I show up before daylight.

I really want to see a video of the shouting parrot in the morning!

 

[theoldchick]

I really want to see a video of the shouting parrot in the morning!

The entire video would be bleeped because of the foul language.