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We somewhat recently got an automatic feeder and realized cats (obviously) don't understand the concept of daylight savings time
Humans don't understand DST either tbh
Having had one for almost our cats' entire lives, I can confirm that they do not.
It also creates something of a pavlovian response; it doesn't matter if there's still food in the dispenser's bowl or he's literally just eaten, the sound of more biscuits dropping is enough to make him absolutely hoof it in the direction of the feeder. Sometimes doesn't even eat anything, just has to run over to it.
Like humans and our phones.
bzzzt
instinctive pickup
"ah fuck"
seems it should probably make a feeding time transition instead of shifing it overnight.
The problem is that it's a smart feeder, so it adjusted its internal clock with DST. A "dumb" feeder would've stayed at the same "physical" time because it also would have no concept of DST.
right, so for it to keep its clock accurate to the set times but not shock kitty with late dinner, have it feed 10 minutes earlier or later over the course of 6 days to transition.
I think it'd just be better for it to ignore DST honestly
kitty agrees.
Yeah we just keep the feeder on one time for the cats since theres no reason they should suffer for our mistakes.