Well, a few days ago I had a little rant about Daylight Savings Time in SE Queensland and how I couldn’t believe that some people in the Outback thought that the cows would get confused if we changed the clocks for some parts of the year.
Well, I was wrong. The Gold Coast Bulletin’s online editor pointed me in the direction of the report, so I could check it out. You can download the 273-page (erm … I should mention its actually 273-slides) report that the jurno referred to. Search for the word confuse and we actually do get 3 hits:
- p80: Not suited to farming sector (e.g. milking cows; confuses livestock)
- p199: Does not suit farmers/rural sector (confuses animals/ milking times)
- p201: Does not suit farmers/rural sector (confuses animals/ milking times) (5% compared to nil).
And in each of those tables, if you do the maths, you can see that its more than just one or two respondents who actually believe the cows would get confused if the clocks went back or forward an hour.
Not really sure what to say … so I’ll just say that I am currently ROTFLMAO*!!!
* and I do wish that someone would tell these Americans
how to spell the word arse properly.