Nothing divides a country more than whether or not to observe the use of daylight savings time (DST). For the states in the US that don't use it, like Hawaii and Arizona, while state offices maintain one clock throughout the year federal offices, like the US Postal Service, do observe it to maintain schedules with other states. Thus if you were an Arizona - uh - an, opening and closing times would depend on when the rest of the US changed clocks. Here in Australia, the resistance to DST is a high art; with (historically) some states having their own dates to change the clocks or as now, some states not changing at all.
And while I've been neither a proponent nor detractor of the practice of DST, I definitely never bought the argument it saves energy.But what gets me is the farmers are the most vocal complainers about having DST or not - something I don't understand. Does an eggplant really care about DST? Or when have cows worn a wristwatch?
"But then we'll have to get up just because the rest of the people do!" they exclaim.
Yeah, well, welcome to the real world.
- Farmer Ted
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