Re:Original Ben Franklin Essay on DST (Score 1)

Interestingly enough, there's at least one group of farmers who aren't so keen on it today. Looks like the Hoosiers keep arguing about adopting daylight savings time, but some "farmers fear their cows will come home at the wrong time." http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/May-June-2005/s cene_sangor_mayjun05.msp Evidently, there are also some questions of political identity going along with adopting DST: "Others simply dislike Eastern time and all that it represents. 'We're in the Midwest, not in the Mideast,' said Gary Cook, a former state legislator who is now Plymouth's mayor. On the floor of the Indiana House recently when the measure was being debated, similar sentiments were aired: 'In my part of the state, they know we've got more in common with Evansville and Chicago, Illinois,' Representative Dave Crooks declared, 'than we do with Bangor, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; and New York City.' His fellow legislators burst into cheers."