Why are we still changing our clocks twice a year?

[1srelluc]

Yet again we have to schlepp around the house changing the clocks for no good reason.

Oh, and wait till you get in your vehicle.....Same thing.

 

[konradv]

What I've heard is the only reason this started was back in the day, farmers didn't have lights on their tractors and needed more light, farmers can do anything at any hour nowadays.

Nobody likes DST, even Congress keeps talking about changing this, but we know how they get things done.

I never got the farmer stories. What do clocks have to do with when you work the field? Work when it’s light! The same with cows being affected. How do they know what time it is? You just switch the “time” you do things. It’s all relative. Kids waiting for buses in the dark is another story, however.

 

[Couchpotato]

What I've heard is the only reason this started was back in the day, farmers didn't have lights on their tractors and needed more light, farmers can do anything at any hour nowadays.

Nobody likes DST, even Congress keeps talking about changing this, but we know how they get things done.

It was started to conserve energy during WW1.