Humans flip time forwards and backwards, often with little idea of how that can affect other species
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The former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen famously argued that daylight saving time (DST) would confuse milking cows, which it might, but only because it changes human behaviour.
All animals have circadian rhythms, but only humans have DST. We flip time forwards and backwards, often with little idea of how that can affect other species.