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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
Cows don't, but farmers do. And the time change means changing the milking schedule. And that reduces milk output.
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If the farmer believes that there is an output difference because the cow is being milked one hour sooner (to the cow, not the human artificial time clock), then the farmer should milk the cow one hour earlier (on the artificial human time clock) when the DST ends in October and stay on that schedule until DST starts up again.
I would tend to agree with your assumption that the cow would get used to the change. And the impact could be minimized by making the change gradual over a couple of days: if 10:00 a.m. is the scheduled milking time, then:
10:00 - three days before DST ends
9:40 - two days before DST ends
9:20 - day before DST ends
10:00 - day DSt ends
Or double the number of days and cut the change time to 10 minutes.
Or just wait until the cows come home.
Or just elimimate clocks, let people do whatever they want whenever they want and let chaos rein!