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		pig on Feb 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter... Farmers work whenever they want.

Semiapies on Feb 8, 2011 [–]

And people haven't been using farm schedules to justify DST for several decades. It's now supposedly about electricity use.

presidentender on Feb 8, 2011 | [–]

It's about continuing to justify what has always been a bad idea of which the powers that be refuse to let go.

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