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I'm ok with timezones, but the guy who invented daylight savings time I'd slap to all the way to the sun
IIRC daylight savings was created way back when electricity really didn't exist so it allowed the farmers more daylight to harvest their crops.
Now with that said there is more technology in today's farming equipment so DST shouldn't really exist anymore.
So, this is wrong on so many levels. First of all, DST had nothing to do with farmers, it was to save energy usage in the summer as people were doing more things when the evenings were warmer.
DST does not increase the amount of daylight on any specific day of the year, it just shifts it later in the day so that people in 8-5 jobs can do more things after work. Farmers don't work 8-5, they work as needed so if the crops need harvesting they will get harvested based on the weather.
Nowadays farmers have lots of lights and can harvest after the sun goes down, but that has nothing to do with why DST shouldn't exist. DST shouldn't exist because it doesn't save energy due to any populated place having their lights on all night and the actual changing of time leading to negative outcomes like deaths from accidents with no benefits.
Sure, the sun will come up earlier and set later in the summer if we get rid of DST, but the only reason for the time change in the first place was the standard working hours being longer after noon than before.
My understanding is DST did still save appreciable energy until we replaced incandescent lights with fluorescent and leds. Longer daylight in the evening when people are awake and less in the early morning when people are asleep means lights aren't being used as much. The average light bulb used to consume 60 watts or more and also let off significant undesirable heat, so with a house full of lights DST really did cut back energy usage. Now though with led lights low consumption and virtually no heat, it's not nearly as significant.