I just hate daylight savings time, thats all. Not even the right time of year to bitch about it but it was on my mind for some reason so : Fuck the farmers. Can’t they just get up an hour earlier or later by clock time? Assholes, the lot of them.
according to This You can’t blame the farmers. Blame the English. 
From History & info - Daylight Saving Time idea from Benjamin Franklin
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We followed about the same time, with having year round DST during WWII. From 1945 to 1966, there was no national standard. Standardization became national law in 1966, with slight revision in '72 and '86.
So… let the farmers off, the railroads are the ones who origianlly spearheaded the effort. Everyone else just kinda fell in to be convient.
I tend the wheat field that makes your bread.
I bind the sweet veal, pluck the hens that make your bed.
Mother Nature & Mother Earth
Are two of three women who dictate what I’m worth
Chorus:
I’m the farmer.
I work in the fields all day.
Don’t mean to alarm her,
But I know it was meant to be this way.
You cried a tear, I wiped it dry
I put you up upon a pedestal so high
if you should waiver, if you should sway
I’d catch you, spread my tiny wings and fly away.
You signed your picture with an O and X
I bet you don’t write “love” each time you sign your cheques.
Chorus
All of this corn I grow I grow it all for you
I took a hatchet to the radio I did it all for you
You could have written back,
You could have said “Thank you”
I guess you’ve got better things,
better things to do.
You say you love me, is that the truth?
Although they’ve heard the songs, my friends want living proof.
I know your address, I ring the bell
I bring you flowers and a .22 with shells.
I’m the farmer
I work in the fields all day
Never wanted to harm her
But I know it was meant to be this way.
Um, It’s late and I’m tired. Just spent an hour and a half driving home from work (usually a 20 minute trip) on a solid sheet of ice. The power lines are encrusted and hanging about five feet below normal and I’m amazed that we can share this little fireside chat tonight.
zen, nothing personal you understand, but on behalf of my farmer friends and neighbors, fuck you.
While daylight time does have a few small benifits for these hardworking people, IIRC the main reason for it is to save power and natural resources. Daylight is scarce in the winter so in order to make the best of it, we shift our scheduals to make the best use of sunlight.
It’s a really complicated concept and I understand if you can’t fully grasp the idea, maybe I could get my five year old grandson to explain it to you.
Sorry, but I really hate it when people come down on farmers, these guys work their asses off to feed us while a lot of them are having trouble feeding themselves.
Big brother is killing them with new regulations every year, and the land most of them have farmed for years is disappearing (contrary to what you might think, most of them don’t own a million acres, they rent or lease) due to new housing. They work harder and harder every year and yet they keep making less and less.
Within a five minute drive from my house, I can show you at least two thousand acres of beautifully manicured lawns that not long ago was productive farmland, and I’d bet you can multiply that many hundreds of times across our great nation.
Go ahead and blame it all on the “rich” farmer, but when they’re gone, I’ll wager that you’ll miss them.
I love that song. IIRC, the woman in question is supposed to be Anne Murray.
Dr. J
Actually, farmers hate DST too. I have relatives in Indiana, and they stay on standard time all year long, presumably because the farmers like it that way (they claim DST makes them get up and tend the fields in the dark, or something). So regardless of your feelings on the subject, I think an apology is in order for all of the offended farmers on the SDMB. 
Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that this doesn’t make a lick of fucking sense. You’re not “shifting your schedules.” You’re shifting the schedules of every man, woman and child in the country! No matter what the hands on the clock say, you still have the same amount of daylight to do what you have to do!
I mean, I have nothing against farmers or anything, but the whole concept of DST is simply ridiculous. It sounds like one of those laws enacted to pacify stupid people who whine too much.
I think the idea is that it reduces the use of artificial lighting and appliances during the day. Here is a link to the California Energy Commission’sexplanation of why we have DST. And here’s an opposing view. Me, I just do what the clock tells me to do, so I have no opinion on this (I’m such a pathetic tool of the man). Have fun!
Just hand me down my old Martin, would you?
{hitches up overalls and clears throat}
*The farmer comes to town with his wagon broken down,
But the farmer is the man who feeds them all.
If you’ll only look and see, then I think you will agree
That the farmer is the man who feeds them all.
The farmer is the man, the farmer is the man,
Lives on credit 'til the fall.
Then they take him by the hand, and they lead him through the land,
And the middle man’s the man who gets it all.
The lawyer hangs around while the butcher cuts a pound,
But the farmer is the man who feeds them all.
And the preacher and the cook go a-strolling by the brook,
But the farmer is the man who feeds them all.
When the banker says he’s broke, and the merchant’s up in smoke,
They forget that it’s the farmer feeds them all.
It would put them to the test if the farmer took a rest
Because the farmer is the man who feeds them all.
The farmer is the man, the farmer is the man,
Come and get your punkins in the fall!
Just put on your garden duds, bring a box and get your spuds–
Because the farmer is the man who feeds them all.*
…Okay, that being said, may I fuck the farmers’ DAUGHTERS instead?
Damn… answer the guy’s question and it promptly gets ignored. See if I stay up and research at 1am again.
zen101: hope you starve to death, bastard.
Okay, first of all, whomever is complaining about DST: we are not now on Daylight Savings Time. We are on Standard Time. If you hate how it gets dark so early in the winter, blame God, not farmers, or railroads, or the Bavarian Illuminati.
DST is during the summer, and is an attempt to shift the extra hours of daylight into the evening, when people are more likely to use them. The basis is that most folks don’t get up much earlier than 6am, so having those daylight hours in the evening allows people to use fewer lights, hopefully saving energy.
This is not true for farming communities who, in fact, hate DST. Their schedules are built around what the animals are used to, and having all of their suppliers and wholesalers shifting their schedules while the animals want to be fed/set out/milked/slaughtered at the same time is a really large pain in the patookis.
Railroad concerns aren’t really a factor, either. What they wanted was a standardized time; they could care less about an extra hour of daylight in the evening. What they wanted was some kind of standardization at all, so they could make timetables without having to deal with different time offsets for every single stop down the line. So, we now have time zones, Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern here in the continental US.
neutron,
Fair enough, and let me be the first to admit that I really didn’t phrase that very clearly. When I said “we”, I meant every man, woman and child, I am not a farmer. (maybe my grandson could explain better than me.) <insert smily here>
Fortunately for me, headshok has gracously provided a link that that far exceeds any poor attempt on my part to explain my statement concerning the judicious use of sunlight.
Hermit
It’s so simple, change the time 1/2 an hour and just leave it. (Though I certainly enjoy “fall back Sunday”, makes all the other inconveniences worth tolerating.)