Real Reason Why We Use Daylight Savings Time

Spring back, fall forward, but why are we still adjusting our clocks every year? Find out why Daylight Savings Time happens every year, and why some countries choose to not turn their clocks at all!

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[lovenothate]

I live on a homestead…the plants and animals don’t care if the clock says it’s 6am or 7am. The animals get fed at the same time every morning regardless of the clock time and the plants get what they need whenever they need it regardless of the clock. During spring and summer, the time I get up seems earlier because of the clock springing forward, but it’s not and I don’t care if the clock says it is. In the winter, the clock says I’m getting up later than in the summer, but it’s not…I really don’t give a flying squirrel’s behind what the clock says. I do chores in the morning and through to the evening. I go to bed when I’m tired and get up when I am awake…no alarm, no forced sleep. So DST has absolutley no point in my life except to shift when the stores are open and such…if ther dewas no DST, would we survive? You bet we would! SAR ha

[rikrob]

As someone who works shifts, it does have a habit of falling so the weekend we get an extra hour, results in doing a 13 hour night shift, then when it drops back I often seem to be on day shifts, so losing that hour's sleep does make the 12 hours of work more of a struggle!

[dangingerich]

The real reason why we have daylight savings time is because of people pushing their own habits and what they believe is best on others. We COULD do this without DST, by simply adjusting work hours per day if needed, but the politicians back in the old days still wanted to force their way to do it.

[pctechadam]

I grew up in AZ I miss not having to change the clocks. The only hard time I had was trying to think of what time it was in other states.

[hedaron]

No one is going to mention that you can just do things at an appropriate time rather than changing what time it is?

[munkeefinkelbeen]

DST is so much fun in Arizona when you live on a reservation. On the reservation we still use DST, while the rest of the state doesn't. Most of the businesses we deal with are based off the reservation, so during DST, we're forever off by an hour, making delivery schedules really annoying 😅

[JKabc]

I for one opt for permanent standard time. The extra hour of sleep will prevent sleep deprivation at work or school, reducing accidents and such.

[johnprudent]

For me it’s partly the psychological effect. There’s just something about an 8pm sunset that feels great. Then around winter you start seeing 4 pm sunsets; there’s just something about that that just feels depressing.

[TrulyMorningstar]

Day lights savings time is useless considering the fact time is still the same.

[johntracy]

I lived in Iceland. They're actually on permanent daylight saving time. They stopped changing the time in 1968.

[catmom]

I'm sure resetting clocks for one reason or another sounded like a good idea, but I still hate it. Twice a year screws with my sleep-wake cycle & I'd like to choose one time or the other & just stay there.

[mrj]

I once lived the same day twice in a row. I left my hotel for the airport in Busan, South Korea at 10am Saturday morning and 24 hours later, I was standing in my front yard in Los Angeles, California at the exact same time on the exact same day! Trippy...

[Samdwhitch]

As somebody who lives in New Zealand, I am overjoyed that we are even mentioned in this. Thank you!

[twocvbloke]

Living in the UK, which is on the Meridian line, I favour the idea that Midday is at when the sun is at its' highest in the sky, and Midnight is 12 hours later, and if you want more time in the daylight, wake up earlier, simple...

[shadowninja]

I've seen studies on daylight savings that say the opposite of what's said in this video, that it either has no effect on energy consumption, or actually slightly increases our energy usage.

[nunyobiznez]

7:09 This would be a fine argument for daylight savings if DST actually affected winter hours. However, the winter hours stay the same, and only the summer shifts forward one hour (at least in the Northern Hemisphere). So if anything, this is justification to just move forward by an hour all year long and get rid of the DST clock changing.

[toddsonic]

I must admit I don't miss not changing clocks twice a year here in Saskatchewan.

[j.macjordan]

When I first travelled to Alaska, we set down around noon & it was daylight. The next time I looked at the clock, it was 2:00am & still daylight out. I hadn't even noticed it had gotten so late & I wasn't tired at all -- it was one of the coolest experiences. It proved to me just how profound sunlight impacts our lives -- there should be absolutely no time shift twice a year at all ever. I'd prefer the later nights of always DST, others would prefer light in the mornings & prefer to see the clocks as always Standard Time. I think, in reality, most people would just prefer to ditch the twice annual changing of clock & stick with either one year round. Because either way, the stress of changing the clocks the way we do is what most people actually despise. & As well they should -- the roots of DST were not for farmers or labor or anything like that; it's real root is in war. Many proposed a labor justification for the change, but that's not when it was adopted. It was adopted specifically to throw off the enemy in WWI by Western Nations warring with one another. There otherwise is no benefit to changing the clocks; it actually costs more to maintain this nonsense than it does to just pick one standard & stick with it year round...

[AnneAslaug]

🌞❄A couple of fact corrections from 10:34 and a bit after. The northernmost point in continental Norway and Europe is called the North Cape, it is situated at approx. 71 degrees north. Nordkinn is a peninsula close by. And also : Norway is The Land of The Midnight Sun (for the same reason.) Iceland barely touches the Arctic circle.
I grew up a bit further east, at approx 70, 2 degrees north, so this is quite litterally my home territory... 😃❤🐻‍❄

[ShawnFFHellcat]

Unanimous vote: *happens*
Arizona and Hawaii Senators: *Have Fun LOL*


One of the best things about being born and raised in Arizona. Although, I absolutely hate when a clock automatically adjusts, therefor creating *problems*

During my school years, I had seen several people who had recently moved to Arizona then show up an hour late on one particular day because they either forgot that we don't change our time or didn't know that in the first place.