Dude. Let's just take a minute to think about this. This video is now 10 years old. One whole decade has passed since this video has been created. Crazy how time flies.
Brazil isn't in a high latitude. When you're in a high latitude like New York, without daylight savings time, the sun would come up insanely early (way before almost everyone wakes up), and would go down an hour earlier instead of getting that extra hour to enjoy it.
This is why, when arranging international conference calls, you use GMT. At my previous job I had a client who refused to use GMT because it was ‘too Anglo-centric’. Unsurprisingly, after missing a critical meeting call in that was attended by representatives from four other countries, and losing £££, they saw the logic behind using one unified time measurement.
Zulu time baby!! My family refers to Zulu exclusively when talking to each other because we’re all in different parts of the world, and literally everyone has had time in the military, even the women. It saves so much time and specifications, especially when you say 1600 instead of having to specify you mean 4 pm.
Now can you explain to the geniuses at my job that GMT does not mean Eastern Time? They schedule their meetings for 08:00 GMT which means midnight or 1am depending on daylight savings time but they say it means 8am eastern, which is 5am for me and that's a solid no on a meeting. So after people missing meetings now they're saying it means 08:00 local time but, uh one problem. Having multiple people from multiple time zones on a meeting all scheduled for 08:00 local time means that none of us actually attend the same meeting. We are a multinational company and they can't even understand time zones. It's absolutely nuts.
I never understood why we everyone doesnt just use GMT and change the business hours for their location. As a society, we've literally decided it's more important that when we open the shop it be 8:00am (or whatever) than to have a universal time that is easy to know and reconcile. Forget DST, forget time zones. Just know that where you live, the sun rises around 4 and you are expected at work by 5, and your neighbors a few hundred miles over usually show up at 6 and so on
Uhm except you should really use UTC (a.k.a Zulu time), not GMT. GMT *is a timezone* and subject to DST. 01:00 GMT is 00:00 UTC in the summer. Do not let this bite you in the ass.
@M Detlef when studying climate of a region, geologists look for sunny days in that region. Places like Sahara have a lot of sunny days which contributes to the desert climate. Places like Luxembourg have temperate climate and medium sunlight and UK.. well.. let's just say that the sun is a blessing in London.
@@RemyKingKen No technically he's right. Like, at the poles, you get months on end of darkness and light. And on the equator, it doesn't vary much from 12 hours each. It all works out even. Yeah sure, to the human eye, Alaska may be "dark" for 5 months and only has "daylight" for 2 weeks but that darkness isn't always 100% dark, it's just, too dark for humans. Everywhere gets the same amount of light. At least, without going into details, like places shaded from the sun by mountain ranges, etc. That makes a big difference.
As a person who lived without daylight saving for over 80% of their life. I had trouble understanding why people are just messing with clocks. Especially during college where time is important.
Oh yeah. I'm current study at a school in Czech but have to do it online in my country while waiting for visa. I did not have any concept about daylight saving time until i almost submit my work late because i have no idea about this.
Honestly, I did not realize how daylight savings time changes could be so complicated. I haven't really put much thought into it up until now. Quite intriguing.
It's even more complicated when you're a pilot, and the tower or airport you are leaving or arriving does or doesn't shift operating hours with local time vs Zulu/GM-Time. The time you leave, plus the travel time, plus the time zone shifts, plus the tower/airport individually operating by its own rules... I'm all for getting rid of the shift. Pick one & stick with it...keeps things simpler.
But it might negatively affect millions of EU-citizens depending on their location. It's not good waking up before sunrise but they will be forced to, as the EU wants a shared timezone.
Yep, but they want me and my fellow Dutchies (who are already an hour ahead of the time zone we SHOULD be in) to use the summer time the whole year round, which makes it two hours ahead of our "technical" time zone, and with solar time it gets even worse, this is proven to be bad for one's health because it messes up the biological clock of the people living on most of Europe's west coast and probably in the east too if they want a shared timezone. They should get rid of DST but let countries choose their own timezone with regards to their location.
No, we didn't cancel DST. In converse, we sticked to it. Although Turkey's default time zone was GMT+02:00, which is extemely reasonable both geographically and demographically, we now use GMT+03:00, which barely passes through the eastern border instead of the very highly populated cities of Turkey, such as İstanbul.
I think when you consider the population centres (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Hobart, etc.) the majority of the Australian population does daylight savings, but not the majority of the landmass
I love watching old videos like this and seeing how videos have changed over the years. Here I am watching this 11 years after this came out, and it's almost like a time capsule that might just pop in your feed one day.
Australia is on the south hemisphere so if you look at the round earth with the north hemisphere pointing straight up, the south hemisphere will point straight down.
There was a thing called flextime we had in the '80s and 90s that you could work more or less and add to other days to make up the time you wanted off or early. You could come in an hour early and leave an hour early. We don't need daylight savings time. Leave the clocks alone.
But still though, I’d much rather not have the sun rising even earlier when I’m staying up at night. 5:23 is already too early and then 4:23 would be worse, so more like shift it forwards another hour so that it rises at 6:23 and sets at 21:29, and it wouldn’t be like that everywhere, but at least where I live.
@@nabranestwistypuzzler7019 21:29?? Thats so late, our sunsets here is like 17:45-18:30 and then 18:40 theres no sun. 6am is our sunrise or like 6:25am
t4rgeted It’s so that the sun wouldn’t rise at 5:23 when there’s over 15 hours of daylight. Also, it would be better if the clocks where moved forwards 1 hour all year round where you live so that the sun wouldn’t set so early. We only have it earlier than that in fall and winter with the earliest being 16:27 in early December. Thu/06/24/2021 at 11:54 EDT2
galoomba Obviously Ik that it still rises and sets at the same point in time, but it would be better if the number on the clock was later. Fri/06/25/2021 at 16:17 EDT2
I sure hope someone in the last 11 years has responded to this from the nordic perspective, but here it goes anyway: sure, DST gives more sunlight in the summer after work, BUT if you live above a certain latitude, this pretty much doesn't matter because the sun never sets or just grazes the horizon starting in late spring and continuing until early autum. The clock change in the winter in these locations also doesn't matter, because there's so few sunlit hours of every day. You'd need to move the clocks at least a few hours to, for example, wake up with light, or at least not go to work/school in the dark. If you did that though, the sun would set at like noon, which, yeah, I guess there are many reasons why nobody would want this. And if you move it a few hours in the other direction so you're not going home in the dark (or, you get to enjoy any sunlit hours after work) then the sun isn't even rising until noon. This is also no bueno. So please, somebody, anybody, please pick one and stick with it. Thanks.
It's insane how well Grey's videos hold up over the years, honestly I couldn't watch half the videos from 2010 on TH-cam but I still get enjoyment from his! Really a testament to how high his production quality has always been
@@diegodoesstuff86 Makes sense. I went there once, during springbreak. Just as well, I only went to the beach _once,_ for about half an hour, before I decided _that was really dumb, the sun was way too intense,_ changed back and spent the rest of the afternoon in the hotel room. I did enjoy the nights there. I'll make it a point on traveling one day during a cold month. Might change my sweaty, burny memories hahah.
This video is actually timeless. I though this was a recently uploaded video, until I saw a comment say ‘it’s crazy this video is a decade old’, and that comment itself was a year old when writing this comment!
Ashish Agrawal ... I live in America, I was giving a trick to convert them more quickly... I don’t think people realize that we’re also ticked off that we use a different unit of measurement than the rest of the world
When CGP Grey tries to make you laugh: 0:21 "The universe is indifferent to your human concerns" 4:00 Sydney is upside down because it is below the equator
I'd definitely have zero complaints if daylight saving was abolished in the UK. The way it has fallen meant last October when they went back I had to do a 13 hour night shift, then this past weekend when they went forward, I lost an hour's sleep prior to a 12 hour day shift! It certainly doesn't do much for my mental health when it falls like this!
***** Subtitles fit absolutely perfect over that red box. You know. They have the whole screen and put it exactly where the subs are. But I give you the point. At least they tried!
Steve JB Funny we get a lot of documentaries from the UK so we see a lot of metric without imperial. Also I must be including a lot of science shows who by nature are metric as well
This might be a good topic to revisit. This topic seems as alive or more alive than it was 12 years ago. I definitely recall complications around changing clocks, different clock times for scheduling etc. And when this vid was made, it's when I was unsure if various clocks were updating themselves correctly automatically. Nowadays, I'm always certain my personal devices have the correct time, regardless of what I do or where I am, and just checking the weather in another locale gives their local time too. The magic of scheduling software within our phones, laptops, etc, gives the true time of a scheduled event without any particularly difficult mental gymnastics. It just is what it is. New focuses: The push to make daylight savings time permanent, which to me is an abomination against natural time... To decide to permanently never have High Noon again, but High 11am. lol. Etc. Why not just make work schedules more flexible in general, and allow employers and employees to determine what schedules work best for them. And still, health and mental affects of switching clock time without traveling. It still messes me up when we "Fall Back" and I'm in northern North America at the time.... but I'd rather see DST abandoned and keep natural solar time than the other way around. Thanks for the content!! :D
Honestly, more sunlight in the summer just seems like a weird thing to want. Where I live with DST, it's still daylight in the summer until well after 9 PM. In the winter, it was full dark by the time I got home from school. Neither of those things feels natural.
Except in the sumer its like 70°F in the evening and in the winter its -20°F. Do in the summer its actually nice to be able to enjoy the outdoors after work and in the winter nobody wants to be outside anyway so turn the sun off to reduce glare / blinding light indoors. As stated in the video DST makes more snese the farther from the equator you get. And at this point we are too stuck in our ways to resolve either direction because the north wants to keep DST and the south doesn't need it. Lets just be glad we aren't china with the entire nation using the local time in the capital. (Imagine if Alaska and Hawaii were using DC time for daily life)
@@jasonreed7522 But wouldn't it be better to have DST the whole year, as in winter you are stuck driving to work in the mornings anyways. In the afternoon you could use the extra light to walk the dog, go skiing, jog etc. Also, in weekends and holidays most people sleep a bit longer anyways, meaning the morning light gets wasted.
@@luk586 look up the negative health effects of living on the wrong side of a timezone (the western side, that wakes up in darkness) Humans are fundamentally meant to rise with the sun and hold a slight vigil into the evening darkness. Waking up before the sun sucks both at the personal level and at the societal level.
I grew up in a town on the Utah/Arizona border, whether we observed daylight savings time changed depending on the year, and where we were more likely to have doctors and other appointments. I grew up talking about "Arizona time" and "Utah Time." I didn't grow up on a Reservation.
My state in Georgia is trying to stop doing Daylight savings time because alot of have complained about it. I know it's tough in Georgia but I know we're getting pass it. Hang in there Georgia!!!
If anyone else has experienced going to and returning from work in complete darkness during winter, they may ask, like me, why we don't just keep DST throughout the year or even move the clock forward for winter!
If you set clocks 1 hour ahead in winter Sunrise 8:30am rather than changing it back to 7:30am Sunset would be 5:30pm rather than 4:30pm You will have more light in the evenings according to the clock
Because the way we do Daylight Saving time right now is the best way to solve the very problem you are raising. Keeping daylight saving time all year round means we drive to work in the pitch black night time and we kill ourselves because of seasonal affective disorder more often. I don't think you really put much thought into this comment of yours.:-)
Because "noon" is supposed to mean the time when sun is at the highest in the sky (12pm). Keeping DST throughout the year practically means that noon from now on becomes 1pm. A simpler way to deal with such is to change the schedules of public services so that the rest in the society would follow suit. DST is in fact just a shift of the schedules with the disguise of shifting the clock anyway.
If you work during night, I have an even better suggestion for you. Why not move the clock forward 12 hours. Then you'd have daylight during the night, and darkness during the day. When you think about that, you will realise that the clock is completely arbitrary, and that it's your work schedule that is the issue here. If you want to start work an hour earlier, and finish work an hour earlier, then talk to your boss about it. There is no need to get the entire nation involved.
@@Shadowkey392 no it doesn’t. The time between sunrise and sunset is longer in the summer than it is in winter. How do you schedule something in between? “Hey, we have a daily meeting when the sun is at 50 degrees from the horizon!” If all days of the year had 12hrs of light and 12hrs of darkness across all latitudes, this debate wouldn’t even be happening.
@Nargacuga Wyvern No not at all done. Either your definition is completely useless, or the length of an hour shifts all the time. Which would be quiet shitty...
@@Shadowkey392 if it never gets dark then how does any the OP's timeframes even work?. Think very far north in summer as an example. Sun comes up its morning...sun stays up....its always morning? vice versa for winter
This video came in my feed just at the right time when I was getting frustrated over an international conference where all times are written in CDT but CDT wasn't implemented till last week. So it was just crazy trying to match the meeting timings to Indian time specially since some were hosted by Europe and they didn't seem to be changing their timezone before the end of the month. It's just totally crazy why we still stick to this changing of clocks.
I don't care how much stress it saves. That glorious day in the fall where we get to live the same hour twice, and then have super long sleep that night is amazing.
Why not? Say on a summer's day the sun rises as 4am GMT and sets at 8pm. Meanwhile I get up at 7am and go to bed at 11pm. There's three hours of sunlight wasted while I'm in bed, while I burn the lights for three hours at the end of the day. Apply daylight savings, and the sun now comes up at 5am and sets at 9pm. Only two hours of burning lights. Saving money and fuel.
@@zylo202 Didn't you? Clearly it does. If you're only awake for two hours of darkness means using less fuel than being awake for three hours of darkness. Arguments about Arizonans using air con are drivel; don't live in the middle of deserts, moronic Septics!
@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze then you'd be waking up at 8 a.m. instead of 7, and go to bed at 12 instead of 11 after applied DST, if you don't change your sleep cycle. And if you do change your sleep cycle, which you'll have to do anyways after DST is applied, YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT CHANGING THE DAMN CLOCK!!! All you need to do is adjust your working hours, which is wayy less complicated than changing the entire time!
1:13 i'm chilean and the regions that are the farthest from the equator don't turn their clocks back (they stay on dst time all year long), it makes no sense. But a lot of stuff in chile makes no sense, i'm not surprised they didn't even get dst right
UM.. newsflash folks. This bill is still in congress, it has only passed the senate and not the house and has not been signed into law. You'll still have to move your clocks for the foreseeable future.
As an Arizonan, I can say that you DEFINITELY do not want to go outside during summer, which by the way here, summer is like 4-5 months long, always being over 100 degrees F during that time.
I can tell Grey really wanted to keep this video unbiased, not persuading any point of view. Except honestly in the end it makes me think that there's NO reason to keep DST.
Stijn Broekhuis Why don't you show some proof instead of just >implied? He said only two things: that Grey attempted to be unbiased, and that his mind was changed because of his video. Also, comment isn't pluralized if it's just his thread.
Actually, there's no reason to keep standard time. Having less daylight in the winter is not advantageous most places. If you need to go out before work to shovel snow it's nice to have that be later, but only if being later puts it after sunrise. High lattitude locations probably aren't getting that benefit anyways so there's no reason not to save daylight all year round. Warm temperate regions don't get snow and, again, there's no benefit to not saving daylight year round. I suspect it would have an effect on SAD rates. Most people sleep in on days they don't work or attend school, which would mean more natural sunlight in winter with year round daylight savings on 1/7 to 2/7 of days. Essentially, DST is a fix to urban life not fitting solar time that is only applied half the year for no good reason.
Well there isn't. Living near a pole -- summertime has practically *constant* sunlight and wintertime has none -- so what's the point of moving clocks? When next sunset is a date months away... Wartime German -- maybe it was to confuse enemies as to their schedule? Or to get used to the time before crossing a timezone?
I think that there's an even bigger problem behind this and it's with the actual time zones, where different countries in the same timezone can have huge differences between the time of sunrise and sunset. Our country is planning on ditching daylight savings. The problem is that we haven't settled on which time we're going to stick to, whether winter or summer time. Proponents of summer time argue that with winter time we'll be getting the first bits of daylight after 2am during summer and with summer time we would get more usable dailight after work during winter, which could reduce cases of depressions and even sucides. The problem is that summer time wouldn't correspond to the timezone we're in.
as a resident of the American south, daylight savings baffles me because it takes away my afternoon sunlight in the fall, when it is nice to be outside and sunlight is already in short order
Yeah but it does impact on important things like public schedules, school hours, shopping centre hours and basically any business that keeps standard business hours. The question then becomes, do you want the extra sunlight before or after work.
Obviously you can’t do that, but you can still move the rug over into a better position. Like if your rug by the door became longer, would you rather have it go into the doorway and outside on one end, or just go even further into the house? Obviously the second option, and the same goes for not wanting the sun rising at 4:23, but rather at 5:23, or even 6:23 if there was extra DST from 4-5 weeks after the initial change up until 8-9 weeks before the final shift back, and then the sunset isn’t until 20:29 or even 21:29 in early in the evening instead of 19:29 in the late afternoon.
Diana Watson I know, right? My mom tells me that the sun rises earlier in certain times of the year, but that's just bullshit to me, because we all know that "Daylight Savings Time" is artificial. Besides, there's no sun tilting or Earth rotating differently. Otherwise, it would cause a global climate change, burning everything in sight, making the planet uninhabitable during summer. Daylight Savings Time is all in the Western World's heads. They need to abolish it and stick with natural, standard time.
Brenda Martin I think you might have your scientific concepts a bit confused. The sun does rise earlier at certain times of the year (Summer), but that is because of the human-made construct of time itself. Regardless, it makes no difference. The original reason to establish DST was ambiguous at best, and modern technology completely negates any reason to continue with it.
@@sandygehrmann6309 Most people in Australia live in the southeast part of the country. Grey is right in that the majority of Australians use Daylight Savings.
I live in Australia and work in a federal law jurisdiction, across all the states. The amount of time we spend quadruple checking we have entered the right time zones in our court calendars is ridiculous. The shift in daylight saving times means that we have to be aware of 5 different zones. Then, throw in the confusion of western Australia getting rid of DST. I was putting "AWDT" on calendars for WEEKS before remembering it didn't exist
Not gonna lie, as an Arizonan, when I first watched this video years ago I learned how extensive daylight saving time was. I kind of knew that some people would switch their clocks around sometimes, and that was why I would have to change my clocks on some stuff that was hooked up to the internet, switching it between timezones. I just didn't realized that WE are the weird ones. Makes more sense now though, why when people online would be trying to schedule a meeting, ask me what timezone I'm in, and I would just have to say "I dunno, it changes".
It drives me nuts that we finally have people realizing that moving the clocks around is a NIGHTMARE, but they've all decided the FALSE TIME is the correct solution.
Am I the only one who found it hilarious when CGP said "Most of Australia follows DST, but not the Northern territory, Western, and Queensland" while showing an image of at least 60% of Australia NOT following DST? =p
shlobbington slochkenberger I don't doubt that the areas included in DST have the highest population and population density, but just on face value it's funny. It's similar in funny to when some one says something like "Apples are EXACTLY like oranges except different color, different texture, different flavor, and basically completely different fruit, so EXACTLY the same!" (This is just an example, I've never met some one to compare apples and oranges like this, but you hear people compare other things like this. Though you get the point I'm trying to make, right? Like when some one compares something saying it's "just alike" while rattling off all the differences.)
Tenshi Chan depends how you count, to me i see the statement 'most of australia' as a representation of area, in which case yea, he had it backwards. About 1/3 of the country fits into lovely WA here, yeat we have a tiny population and another amazing feature, we provide most of the country its money. but yeah, depends how you count it, if its number of states and territories then its 3/7, if its population its 2/3ish
Here's a thought, let's not follow daylight savings time and instead everyone in the world should follow only one big standard time all year round. Problem solved.
Aecacolo Yes you can. Sure, the sun goes up and down at different times around the world, but that doesn't really matter at all. We all use a 24 hour clock, so why shouldn't we all keep the same time? I live in Europe, but if there is a huge live stream in America I would like to watch, I constantly have problems timing when it happens in my zone, compared to when it happens there. It would just be more convenient, to have one standard time.
No one really likes to get up an hour early just catch an extra hour of sunlight,just to have to bed early and do the same thing the next day. The body clock doesn't work that way. In fact it puts stress on the body. That is why you feel tired at the end of the day because you didn't get full rest period.
Indiana ignored it too for a long time as well and only adopted it when the rest of the world started considering dropping it. We didn't adopt it initially because roosters never cared what time you set the clock too The reasoning behind adopting it in the late 90s or 2000s was that it caused confusion when Chicago would change and we wouldn't. Somehow them fiddling with their clocks and getting confused over what time it was was somehow our problem.
lol the sun rises and falls differently at any given point on the earth. I guess you mean for people to wake up when the sun rises. In that case I get it but the thing is that big business etc... will have more to say about it than anyone else because it determines when the peons do their chores.
Because you want sunlight for when you get home from your job where your employer sets the hours (this doesn't apply to all jobs ofc). Also 5am? F*** that! Regardless, we should certainly do away with DST completely, it's bloody annoying. If we want more sunlight, just stay in DST forever and call it standard time.
Beats me. They don't know that not everyone is not on the same time from east to west. In the east we are 3 hours ahead of them in california. So they are 3 hours behind. So it is really useless no matter where you live.
It's interesting to note that we didn't even need standardized time zones until the industrial revolution (specifically, steam locomotives) but now technology has become so deeply intertwined in society that it's the complexity of dealing with DST in that technical world- changing the clocks of all those computer systems, for example- that is a main argument to get rid of DST.
If we could even remain consistent within timezones and stick to local solar time, but no - as it turns out "Time of day" is very much a social construct and for many people around the world a deeply oppressive one at that. Think of the poor spaniards from whom the clock time is sometimes up to three hours ahead of the local solar time. Mainly because Franco wanted to be pals with Hitler and so decreed that Spain's clocks should match those of Germany, and in post-Franco, they opted to stay on CET because that was more convinient to the EU. Yes, Spain really should be on UTC and maybe even on UTC+1, which many people somehow find very supricing - they think mainland Spain is much futher to the east than it actually is, simply because the clock stay on CET when you go there
I will never forget about that time I told my friends over discord to hop onto gartic phone at 6 p.m. greenwich time (3 hours of difference with my country when they're not in summer). Greenwich is a city in the UK, and the UK uses daylight saving time, and so by the time I realized that, I had already been an hour late to the thing and everyone had already left.
@@Redwan777 Technically, they switch from GMT to BST (British Summer Time). So, the best move is to use UTC (Universal Co-ordinated Time) which is +/-0 year round.
I recently been randomly binging CGP's content and seeing this one was posted 8 years ago makes me excited for the many hour's of quality informative entertainment i have left!
Although international meetings are more common than ever, the whole timezone headache has been pretty much solved by software. Just send an invite in your local time zone and the software will convert it for each recipient, all time zone and daylight saving shenanigans figured out for you by the machine.
It’s the best thing ever created! Who needs light already at 6? It’s more about having fun and enjoying with your kids. There’s nothing more fun that being able to do everything outside in the light until 10/11pm! It must be a permanent thing though. No changing it backwards
@@daltonrandall4348 That doesn't help either. That'd mean that for me, the sun would rise at 09:49 on the shortest day and will not rise earlier than 09:00 for 2 full months. Not only will it disturb our sleep but also cause more accidents during rush hour combined with the winter conditions.
I'm a huge advocate for abolishing daylight savings. Is it so hard to just change your schedule over the coarse of the day as opposed to screwing with everyone's perception of time?
Dear Canada, Get rid of DST in Alberta. I can’t speak for other provinces, but trust me. It’s not going to make a difference. We never get out anyway. Thank you, from a Canadian Citzen.
Thank you! I never understood why the time changed. Whenever I asked someone I'd always get one of two responses, 'Because of the farmers" or "To make an extra hour of daylight." Both answered seemed nonsensical to me. I wish my government would just pick a time and stick with it. Changing it is annoying.
LegoGirl1990 No you have this wrong (at least from the perspective of the country i live in and its States). The city folk have DST because it is to complex for them to simply start earlier if they wish to have more daylight time. They complain that my state doesn't have DST because "the Farmers whinge as they have to get up to early as it is". Well yes... because they aren't lazy fks and are logical and animals don't change their biological clocks just because city folk are to lazy to get up an hour earlier if they wish to have more time of an afternoon! Disclaimer: I'm not a farmer. And DST needs to DIAF.. its 2014! ;)
LegoGirl1990 Well.. farmers do care what time it is. not in the traditional "it must be 08:30 so i can start work". But more in line with what you hinted at... The cows like to be milked at certain times etc :) I'm not a farmer myself. But i do come in direct contact with many of them. And my father was a cane farmer and a dairy farmer in his young years. Today.. we just drilled a water bore for a dairy farmer. ;) But i digress. DIAF=die in a fire. SO yes.. you got that pretty much right. :) PS. LEGO rules!! (technic anyway :P).
2:27 if you had made this in 2005, you'd know Indiana was the third to not observe it either. They did that for a multitude of reasons, but since the state is also in Eastern and Central zones, they finally passed a bill in 2005 for the entire state to now observe it, not just the big cities.
![[Vowel]물고기는 물에서 살아야 해🐟🤣Fish have to live in the water #funny](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3G9MH063Cx4/mqdefault.jpg)
I suspect you see a semi-annual spike in hits for this video
lmao
True lol
Smart. And true
I'm part of that spike now
Yep
so this mess started because a man wanted to catch bugs
We all have to suffer because of him. >.
That how the world works
It’s not that bad. I like more sunlight in the summer.
And we wanted to loose another war ;)
Glad he did. Gives me more time to collect branches.
Dude. Let's just take a minute to think about this. This video is now 10 years old. One whole decade has passed since this video has been created. Crazy how time flies.
Yeah pretty crazy how flies time.
So true man. I remember 2011. Great year, awful music (ahem, Rihanna, Beyoncé).
And it's still relevant.
Music has been pretty bad since the 90s. Let's be honest.
@@theamazingDrBob not really. People just got older and stopped producing the same music. Artists changed, died, and were born.
Winter in Finland: 5 hours of daylight
Summer in Finland: 23 hours of daylight
Daylight saving time: Obsolete
Are you from Finland?
@@aaronfield7899 Yes.
That sounds both awesome and horrifying at the same time.
I’m thankful that nights in my summer car are a little longer
"Yo dawg I heard you like timezones so we put timezones in your timezones"
:D
Nick Carberry One simply does not revive a dead meme
Ben West I believe I just did
Nick Carberry Thats such a stale meme
This video was in 2011.
Can we all appreciate this line
Arizona: yo dawg, i heard you like timezones so we put timezones in your timezone
Excessive bureaucracy sounds just like our world.
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@@sigsauer_firearms It's hot here, stay away.
steins;gate/death note reference
As an Arizonan, I don't get Daylight Savings. We already have enough sunlight.
This might be old news at this point, but I think it's still worth mentioning: Brazil stopped using daylight saving time since April 2019.
do you think youve seen any changes in your society because of it?
I am going to Brazil
Argentina did it even earlier - in 2009
Brazil isn't in a high latitude. When you're in a high latitude like New York, without daylight savings time, the sun would come up insanely early (way before almost everyone wakes up), and would go down an hour earlier instead of getting that extra hour to enjoy it.
It’s Daylight SAVING Time, not SavingS. Still, easier to call it Daylight Shifting Time.
Thanks TH-cam recommendations for knowing the time of year
This is why, when arranging international conference calls, you use GMT. At my previous job I had a client who refused to use GMT because it was ‘too Anglo-centric’. Unsurprisingly, after missing a critical meeting call in that was attended by representatives from four other countries, and losing £££, they saw the logic behind using one unified time measurement.
Zulu time baby!! My family refers to Zulu exclusively when talking to each other because we’re all in different parts of the world, and literally everyone has had time in the military, even the women.
It saves so much time and specifications, especially when you say 1600 instead of having to specify you mean 4 pm.
Now can you explain to the geniuses at my job that GMT does not mean Eastern Time? They schedule their meetings for 08:00 GMT which means midnight or 1am depending on daylight savings time but they say it means 8am eastern, which is 5am for me and that's a solid no on a meeting. So after people missing meetings now they're saying it means 08:00 local time but, uh one problem. Having multiple people from multiple time zones on a meeting all scheduled for 08:00 local time means that none of us actually attend the same meeting. We are a multinational company and they can't even understand time zones. It's absolutely nuts.
I never understood why we everyone doesnt just use GMT and change the business hours for their location. As a society, we've literally decided it's more important that when we open the shop it be 8:00am (or whatever) than to have a universal time that is easy to know and reconcile. Forget DST, forget time zones. Just know that where you live, the sun rises around 4 and you are expected at work by 5, and your neighbors a few hundred miles over usually show up at 6 and so on
@@daviga1 The further away from the UK the worse the adaptation gets
Uhm except you should really use UTC (a.k.a Zulu time), not GMT. GMT *is a timezone* and subject to DST. 01:00 GMT is 00:00 UTC in the summer. Do not let this bite you in the ass.
I live near death valley.
WE HAVE PLENTY OF SUNSHINE
STOP CHANGING MY HOURS
Just switch pm with am
M Detlef no they don’t😭😭😭. Parts of Alaska stay dark for 5 months a year and sunlight for 2 weeks straight.
@M Detlef when studying climate of a region, geologists look for sunny days in that region. Places like Sahara have a lot of sunny days which contributes to the desert climate. Places like Luxembourg have temperate climate and medium sunlight and UK.. well.. let's just say that the sun is a blessing in London.
insert cool name here Φ “an dumbass”
@@RemyKingKen No technically he's right. Like, at the poles, you get months on end of darkness and light. And on the equator, it doesn't vary much from 12 hours each. It all works out even. Yeah sure, to the human eye, Alaska may be "dark" for 5 months and only has "daylight" for 2 weeks but that darkness isn't always 100% dark, it's just, too dark for humans. Everywhere gets the same amount of light. At least, without going into details, like places shaded from the sun by mountain ranges, etc. That makes a big difference.
As a person who lived without daylight saving for over 80% of their life. I had trouble understanding why people are just messing with clocks. Especially during college where time is important.
Oh yeah. I'm current study at a school in Czech but have to do it online in my country while waiting for visa. I did not have any concept about daylight saving time until i almost submit my work late because i have no idea about this.
Honestly, I did not realize how daylight savings time changes could be so complicated. I haven't really put much thought into it up until now. Quite intriguing.
It’s Daylight SAVING Time, not SavingS. Still, easier to call it Daylight Shifting Time.
It's a control tactic
Some of us actually need them, more daylight for work hours and late summer sunsets
It's even more complicated when you're a pilot, and the tower or airport you are leaving or arriving does or doesn't shift operating hours with local time vs Zulu/GM-Time. The time you leave, plus the travel time, plus the time zone shifts, plus the tower/airport individually operating by its own rules... I'm all for getting rid of the shift. Pick one & stick with it...keeps things simpler.
In Germany it's just called "summertime and wintertime"
The EU is finally going to get rid of this madness starting in 2022.
All the more reason for me to move to Germany
Good for them! 👍👍
But they might pick the wrong time
But it might negatively affect millions of EU-citizens depending on their location. It's not good waking up before sunrise but they will be forced to, as the EU wants a shared timezone.
Yep, but they want me and my fellow Dutchies (who are already an hour ahead of the time zone we SHOULD be in) to use the summer time the whole year round, which makes it two hours ahead of our "technical" time zone, and with solar time it gets even worse, this is proven to be bad for one's health because it messes up the biological clock of the people living on most of Europe's west coast and probably in the east too if they want a shared timezone. They should get rid of DST but let countries choose their own timezone with regards to their location.
My country was using daylight saving until a few years ago, then it was lifted. Now our clocks are stable and everyone is happier
Turkey?
@@PrawilnaMordka yep!
Kaldırıldığını senden öğrendim vay be.
everyone is happier?
No, we didn't cancel DST. In converse, we sticked to it.
Although Turkey's default time zone was GMT+02:00, which is extemely reasonable both geographically and demographically, we now use GMT+03:00, which barely passes through the eastern border instead of the very highly populated cities of Turkey, such as İstanbul.
"Most of Australia uses daylight savings except for most of the country"
I think when you consider the population centres (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Hobart, etc.) the majority of the Australian population does daylight savings, but not the majority of the landmass
should have said "most Australians"
I live in WA and the sun rises @ 4:30
@@kaiwilliams2181 I wouldn't have it any other way.
@@Definitely_a_Fox I would
I love watching old videos like this and seeing how videos have changed over the years. Here I am watching this 11 years after this came out, and it's almost like a time capsule that might just pop in your feed one day.
"42°C and 50°C for the metricly civilized"
Thank you, fellow non-doofus.
thank you so much
OR the rest of ~7 billion people who use metric
Nightstar Seren Or basically, everyone except people in America.
Or Myanmar or Liberia
you put the picture of sydney upside down
i get it
i dont?
Australia is on the south hemisphere so if you look at the round earth with the north hemisphere pointing straight up, the south hemisphere will point straight down.
Garirry oh thanks :)
Just after reading you say "i get it", I got it
I get it
Time to watch this again🍀
Wow Just realized this video is 11 years old!! And still does an amazing job on educating people like me🤩 amazing. thankyou!
*A man created this to catch more bugs!? WTF*
G * 59 exactly daylight savings messed up me sleep schedule
Lol
@Honda CRV Hello from a HR-V user.
-_- wow
Pokemon trainers, am I right?
There was a thing called flextime we had in the '80s and 90s that you could work more or less and add to other days to make up the time you wanted off or early. You could come in an hour early and leave an hour early. We don't need daylight savings time. Leave the clocks alone.
But still though, I’d much rather not have the sun rising even earlier when I’m staying up at night. 5:23 is already too early and then 4:23 would be worse, so more like shift it forwards another hour so that it rises at 6:23 and sets at 21:29, and it wouldn’t be like that everywhere, but at least where I live.
@@nabranestwistypuzzler7019 21:29?? Thats so late, our sunsets here is like 17:45-18:30 and then 18:40 theres no sun.
6am is our sunrise or like 6:25am
t4rgeted It’s so that the sun wouldn’t rise at 5:23 when there’s over 15 hours of daylight. Also, it would be better if the clocks where moved forwards 1 hour all year round where you live so that the sun wouldn’t set so early. We only have it earlier than that in fall and winter with the earliest being 16:27 in early December.
Thu/06/24/2021 at 11:54 EDT2
@@nabranestwistypuzzler7019 uhhhhh you realize the sun doesn't actually rise earlier, your clock just shows a different number
galoomba Obviously Ik that it still rises and sets at the same point in time, but it would be better if the number on the clock was later.
Fri/06/25/2021 at 16:17 EDT2
I watched this video thinking it was new. Shows you how timeless his videos are
I sure hope someone in the last 11 years has responded to this from the nordic perspective, but here it goes anyway: sure, DST gives more sunlight in the summer after work, BUT if you live above a certain latitude, this pretty much doesn't matter because the sun never sets or just grazes the horizon starting in late spring and continuing until early autum. The clock change in the winter in these locations also doesn't matter, because there's so few sunlit hours of every day. You'd need to move the clocks at least a few hours to, for example, wake up with light, or at least not go to work/school in the dark. If you did that though, the sun would set at like noon, which, yeah, I guess there are many reasons why nobody would want this. And if you move it a few hours in the other direction so you're not going home in the dark (or, you get to enjoy any sunlit hours after work) then the sun isn't even rising until noon. This is also no bueno. So please, somebody, anybody, please pick one and stick with it. Thanks.
It's crazy how well structured this video from 8 years ago is. Most youtubers can only wish for such a throwback
It's insane how well Grey's videos hold up over the years, honestly I couldn't watch half the videos from 2010 on TH-cam but I still get enjoyment from his! Really a testament to how high his production quality has always been
Christmas is NOT just as good a day as any to go surfing in Hawaii
Its one of the best days to go
lol I live in a desert and SAME.
Isn't every day a good day to go surfing in Hawaii?
@@tskmaster3837 *cries* Only stupid tourists go to the beach during summer.
Whenever I see someone in swimwear during summer I pray for them. WHY.
@@xexpaguette is right, during summer I find a cold waterfall somewhere shady so I stay out of the sun
@@diegodoesstuff86 Makes sense. I went there once, during springbreak. Just as well, I only went to the beach _once,_ for about half an hour, before I decided _that was really dumb, the sun was way too intense,_ changed back and spent the rest of the afternoon in the hotel room. I did enjoy the nights there.
I'll make it a point on traveling one day during a cold month. Might change my sweaty, burny memories hahah.
I didn't even notice how old this video was
until I saw _that: 5:48
This video is actually timeless. I though this was a recently uploaded video, until I saw a comment say ‘it’s crazy this video is a decade old’, and that comment itself was a year old when writing this comment!
2:20 Thank you for being considerate; I can't understand Fahrenheit for the life of me.
4:00 Love how you put the Sydney Opera House upside down XD
Here’s a trick Fahrenheit to Celsius is -32 and x2 roughly. The reverse for Celsius to Fahrenheit.
Ashish Agrawal ... I live in America, I was giving a trick to convert them more quickly... I don’t think people realize that we’re also ticked off that we use a different unit of measurement than the rest of the world
I refer to it as foreign heat.
@@yestermorrow3223 I think a better esimate would be: ([Fahrenheit] - 32)*5/9 = [Celsuis]
@@ebentually
That's not only a better estimate, it's the actual exact conversion formula.
When CGP Grey tries to make you laugh:
0:21 "The universe is indifferent to your human concerns"
4:00 Sydney is upside down because it is below the equator
@Kasey Marriott lmao i get it
The clocks moved back yesterday and now this video has been recommended to me clearly the algorithm has become too powerful
I'd definitely have zero complaints if daylight saving was abolished in the UK. The way it has fallen meant last October when they went back I had to do a 13 hour night shift, then this past weekend when they went forward, I lost an hour's sleep prior to a 12 hour day shift! It certainly doesn't do much for my mental health when it falls like this!
I like how you just nonchalantly placed an inverted photo of Sydney to represent Australia. 😂 3:57
Actually he’s representing Sydney
Thanks for converting it to Degrees Celsius for the civilised world
Where did you see the conversion? All temperatures were given in Farenheit.
blazebluebass Pause it at 2:20
***** Subtitles fit absolutely perfect over that red box. You know. They have the whole screen and put it exactly where the subs are.
But I give you the point. At least they tried!
Steve JB
That's fair but like wise when a documentary operates in metric there should be subtitles for imperial.
Steve JB
Funny we get a lot of documentaries from the UK so we see a lot of metric without imperial. Also I must be including a lot of science shows who by nature are metric as well
I share this video every year and every year nothing changes. Except the stupid clocks.
This might be a good topic to revisit. This topic seems as alive or more alive than it was 12 years ago.
I definitely recall complications around changing clocks, different clock times for scheduling etc. And when this vid was made, it's when I was unsure if various clocks were updating themselves correctly automatically. Nowadays, I'm always certain my personal devices have the correct time, regardless of what I do or where I am, and just checking the weather in another locale gives their local time too. The magic of scheduling software within our phones, laptops, etc, gives the true time of a scheduled event without any particularly difficult mental gymnastics. It just is what it is.
New focuses: The push to make daylight savings time permanent, which to me is an abomination against natural time... To decide to permanently never have High Noon again, but High 11am. lol. Etc. Why not just make work schedules more flexible in general, and allow employers and employees to determine what schedules work best for them. And still, health and mental affects of switching clock time without traveling. It still messes me up when we "Fall Back" and I'm in northern North America at the time.... but I'd rather see DST abandoned and keep natural solar time than the other way around.
Thanks for the content!! :D
Moral of the story:
Arizona’s a mess
😂😂😂😂
#BebeRexha *has entered the chat*
talk trash again and the sun will scorch you
MORAL OF THE STORY:
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME IS WORTHLESS CRAP.
Agreed, my family doesn't bother with it here.
Honestly, more sunlight in the summer just seems like a weird thing to want. Where I live with DST, it's still daylight in the summer until well after 9 PM. In the winter, it was full dark by the time I got home from school. Neither of those things feels natural.
Because it isn't natural and DST is pretty stupid.
Except in the sumer its like 70°F in the evening and in the winter its -20°F. Do in the summer its actually nice to be able to enjoy the outdoors after work and in the winter nobody wants to be outside anyway so turn the sun off to reduce glare / blinding light indoors.
As stated in the video DST makes more snese the farther from the equator you get. And at this point we are too stuck in our ways to resolve either direction because the north wants to keep DST and the south doesn't need it. Lets just be glad we aren't china with the entire nation using the local time in the capital. (Imagine if Alaska and Hawaii were using DC time for daily life)
@@jasonreed7522 But wouldn't it be better to have DST the whole year, as in winter you are stuck driving to work in the mornings anyways. In the afternoon you could use the extra light to walk the dog, go skiing, jog etc. Also, in weekends and holidays most people sleep a bit longer anyways, meaning the morning light gets wasted.
@@luk586 look up the negative health effects of living on the wrong side of a timezone (the western side, that wakes up in darkness)
Humans are fundamentally meant to rise with the sun and hold a slight vigil into the evening darkness. Waking up before the sun sucks both at the personal level and at the societal level.
I grew up in a town on the Utah/Arizona border, whether we observed daylight savings time changed depending on the year, and where we were more likely to have doctors and other appointments. I grew up talking about "Arizona time" and "Utah Time."
I didn't grow up on a Reservation.
My state in Georgia is trying to stop doing Daylight savings time because alot of have complained about it. I know it's tough in Georgia but I know we're getting pass it. Hang in there Georgia!!!
If anyone else has experienced going to and returning from work in complete darkness during winter, they may ask, like me, why we don't just keep DST throughout the year or even move the clock forward for winter!
If you set clocks 1 hour ahead in winter
Sunrise 8:30am rather than changing it back to 7:30am
Sunset would be 5:30pm rather than 4:30pm
You will have more light in the evenings according to the clock
Russia did this for that reason. Rather they just never set it back for the winter.
Because the way we do Daylight Saving time right now is the best way to solve the very problem you are raising. Keeping daylight saving time all year round means we drive to work in the pitch black night time and we kill ourselves because of seasonal affective disorder more often. I don't think you really put much thought into this comment of yours.:-)
Because "noon" is supposed to mean the time when sun is at the highest in the sky (12pm). Keeping DST throughout the year practically means that noon from now on becomes 1pm.
A simpler way to deal with such is to change the schedules of public services so that the rest in the society would follow suit. DST is in fact just a shift of the schedules with the disguise of shifting the clock anyway.
If you work during night, I have an even better suggestion for you.
Why not move the clock forward 12 hours. Then you'd have daylight during the night, and darkness during the day.
When you think about that, you will realise that the clock is completely arbitrary, and that it's your work schedule that is the issue here. If you want to start work an hour earlier, and finish work an hour earlier, then talk to your boss about it. There is no need to get the entire nation involved.
Sun comes up, it's morning. Sun goes down, it evening. In between is midday and midnight. Solved!
Yeah it doesn’t really work like that especially with seasons.
@@nabranestwistypuzzler7019ummm...yes it kind of does work like that. Even with seasons.
@@Shadowkey392 no it doesn’t. The time between sunrise and sunset is longer in the summer than it is in winter. How do you schedule something in between?
“Hey, we have a daily meeting when the sun is at 50 degrees from the horizon!”
If all days of the year had 12hrs of light and 12hrs of darkness across all latitudes, this debate wouldn’t even be happening.
@Nargacuga Wyvern No not at all done. Either your definition is completely useless, or the length of an hour shifts all the time. Which would be quiet shitty...
@@Shadowkey392 if it never gets dark then how does any the OP's timeframes even work?. Think very far north in summer as an example.
Sun comes up its morning...sun stays up....its always morning? vice versa for winter
"Gives us more sunlight after work."
Just let me off working earlier.
This video came in my feed just at the right time when I was getting frustrated over an international conference where all times are written in CDT but CDT wasn't implemented till last week. So it was just crazy trying to match the meeting timings to Indian time specially since some were hosted by Europe and they didn't seem to be changing their timezone before the end of the month. It's just totally crazy why we still stick to this changing of clocks.
I don't care how much stress it saves. That glorious day in the fall where we get to live the same hour twice, and then have super long sleep that night is amazing.
hear you! ^^
Yeah but then the day in Spring where we lose an hour of sleep sucks dick
Defranked Meh, it doesn't seem as drastic, at least not to me.
Speak for yourself. Every year that is by far the worst week for me. It takes me that long to recover.
Axioanarchist In my adult life, it's become a little more noticeable, but a single day of going to bed early fixes it.
I love how he flipped Sydney at 4:00 cos, as we all know, Australia is upside down. Lol
I don't like daylight saving time.
i was hoping you’d talk about arizona! i took a trip to see some canyons and such and the daylight saving confusion made us miss our tour 😂🥲
Answer: We shouldn't change the clocks. The end.
Why not?
Say on a summer's day the sun rises as 4am GMT and sets at 8pm. Meanwhile I get up at 7am and go to bed at 11pm. There's three hours of sunlight wasted while I'm in bed, while I burn the lights for three hours at the end of the day.
Apply daylight savings, and the sun now comes up at 5am and sets at 9pm. Only two hours of burning lights. Saving money and fuel.
@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze ... It literally doesn't. Didn't you watch the video?
@@zylo202 Didn't you? Clearly it does. If you're only awake for two hours of darkness means using less fuel than being awake for three hours of darkness. Arguments about Arizonans using air con are drivel; don't live in the middle of deserts, moronic Septics!
@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze You don't need to change the time, you just need to change your schedule.
@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze then you'd be waking up at 8 a.m. instead of 7, and go to bed at 12 instead of 11 after applied DST, if you don't change your sleep cycle. And if you do change your sleep cycle, which you'll have to do anyways after DST is applied, YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT CHANGING THE DAMN CLOCK!!! All you need to do is adjust your working hours, which is wayy less complicated than changing the entire time!
I like how the picture of the Sydney Opera House was upside-down XD
1:13 i'm chilean and the regions that are the farthest from the equator don't turn their clocks back (they stay on dst time all year long), it makes no sense. But a lot of stuff in chile makes no sense, i'm not surprised they didn't even get dst right
The US Senate just passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. Time for all of us to regather and watch this video.
DAMN
Well you guys don't have to deal with it anymore but up here in Canada, Daylight Saving Time is still a thing.
They should have made less sunshine permanent
@@jimbobrl8453 someone doesn't like the outside...
UM.. newsflash folks. This bill is still in congress, it has only passed the senate and not the house and has not been signed into law. You'll still have to move your clocks for the foreseeable future.
This has become an annual tradition; watching this video every time we move forward or go back to where we came from.
Don't wanna be that guy, but bi-annual
@@OldDanTucker Semi-annual, actually. Bi-annual would be once every 2 years. 😉
DST Canceled in Brazil in 2019! I agree with this decision.
Nice
Why did Brazil have it anyways, it literally lies on the equator ...
@@parthbonde2106 Most Brazilians live in the southern part of the country, very few people live in the equator region
@@parthbonde2106 'cause we are stupid and want to copy developed countries to feel better about ourselves.
Finally! I was starting to get annoyed by my aids.
Maybe I just don't get it, but why don't we just... get up earlier if we want more sunlight? Why does the government have to force us to do it?
As an Arizonan, I can say that you DEFINITELY do not want to go outside during summer, which by the way here, summer is like 4-5 months long, always being over 100 degrees F during that time.
"Digital outside is better than real outside" How true.
And 69 likes
I can tell Grey really wanted to keep this video unbiased, not persuading any point of view. Except honestly in the end it makes me think that there's NO reason to keep DST.
+Stijn Broekhuis He didn't say that his own mind being changed proves Grey is biased.
Stijn Broekhuis Why don't you show some proof instead of just >implied? He said only two things: that Grey attempted to be unbiased, and that his mind was changed because of his video. Also, comment isn't pluralized if it's just his thread.
Be like the state of Arizona in the US and the state of Sonora in Mexico we never use DST ftw!
Actually, there's no reason to keep standard time. Having less daylight in the winter is not advantageous most places. If you need to go out before work to shovel snow it's nice to have that be later, but only if being later puts it after sunrise. High lattitude locations probably aren't getting that benefit anyways so there's no reason not to save daylight all year round. Warm temperate regions don't get snow and, again, there's no benefit to not saving daylight year round.
I suspect it would have an effect on SAD rates. Most people sleep in on days they don't work or attend school, which would mean more natural sunlight in winter with year round daylight savings on 1/7 to 2/7 of days.
Essentially, DST is a fix to urban life not fitting solar time that is only applied half the year for no good reason.
Well there isn't. Living near a pole -- summertime has practically *constant* sunlight and wintertime has none -- so what's the point of moving clocks? When next sunset is a date months away...
Wartime German -- maybe it was to confuse enemies as to their schedule? Or to get used to the time before crossing a timezone?
So glad to have you back, Speed. The charity match was incredibly wonderful. Huge W.
The memes and jokes in this video aged surprisingly well, nice job grey
I think that there's an even bigger problem behind this and it's with the actual time zones, where different countries in the same timezone can have huge differences between the time of sunrise and sunset.
Our country is planning on ditching daylight savings.
The problem is that we haven't settled on which time we're going to stick to, whether winter or summer time. Proponents of summer time argue that with winter time we'll be getting the first bits of daylight after 2am during summer and with summer time we would get more usable dailight after work during winter, which could reduce cases of depressions and even sucides.
The problem is that summer time wouldn't correspond to the timezone we're in.
as a resident of the American south, daylight savings baffles me because it takes away my afternoon sunlight in the fall, when it is nice to be outside and sunlight is already in short order
Mexico just abolished daylight saving time last October (2022) meaning we're "stuck" in winter time forever
Love how Sidney is just flipped until it's put onto the chart
You can't make a rug longer by cutting an inch off one side then sewing it to the other. Same applies to daylight.
Yeah but it does impact on important things like public schedules, school hours, shopping centre hours and basically any business that keeps standard business hours. The question then becomes, do you want the extra sunlight before or after work.
Is DST doing that or is it just relocate your starting point on the rug so it is longer to the edge?
But if the rug is glued to the floor, by doing what you described you can move it closer to where you want it.
Yes, but you can cut a pice of the rug you don’t use(night time) and sew it to the part that you use(daytime)
Obviously you can’t do that, but you can still move the rug over into a better position. Like if your rug by the door became longer, would you rather have it go into the doorway and outside on one end, or just go even further into the house? Obviously the second option, and the same goes for not wanting the sun rising at 4:23, but rather at 5:23, or even 6:23 if there was extra DST from 4-5 weeks after the initial change up until 8-9 weeks before the final shift back, and then the sunset isn’t until 20:29 or even 21:29 in early in the evening instead of 19:29 in the late afternoon.
Honestly in the UK I was under the impression that standard time ensured kids coming home from school didn't walk home in the dark
It doesn't. There are schools that finish at times like 4:30pm, and in the winter it is already dark at that time
it probably causes more kids to have to walk home in the dark tbh
@@tylerlarent How is that so? I thought the whole point of daylight savings was to provide more sun time for after school/work hours.
@@somrikgolhi8305 No, Daylight Savings time engages during mostly summer (non-school months).
@@daltonrandall4348 If it mostly triggers during non-school months, then how is it causing any trouble, in this context?
I love getting recommended these 10 year old Grey videos about issues we’re still talking about in the US. Rewatched the debt ceiling video last week.
Same
Very informative, thanks. The Sydney Opera House visual gag was very amusing.
Daylight Saving Time is a big time waster.
F'g agree!
Agreed, especially the Spring one, which they couldn't have the decency to do it the weekend before Spring Break
Diana Watson I know, right? My mom tells me that the sun rises earlier in certain times of the year, but that's just bullshit to me, because we all know that "Daylight Savings Time" is artificial. Besides, there's no sun tilting or Earth rotating differently. Otherwise, it would cause a global climate change, burning everything in sight, making the planet uninhabitable during summer. Daylight Savings Time is all in the Western World's heads. They need to abolish it and stick with natural, standard time.
Brenda Martin I think you might have your scientific concepts a bit confused. The sun does rise earlier at certain times of the year (Summer), but that is because of the human-made construct of time itself. Regardless, it makes no difference. The original reason to establish DST was ambiguous at best, and modern technology completely negates any reason to continue with it.
NO MORE DST! NO MORE DST!
"Most of Australia does Daylight Savings" proceeds to show that three quarters of the country doesn't do daylight savings :)
Most of the people in Australia practice it, as the southeast region is the most densely populated
@@peorcyhen5062 Yeah, but QLD and WA are still the third-and-fourth most populated states.
Most of the people, not land area.
@@flameoguy3804 ?
@@sandygehrmann6309 Most people in Australia live in the southeast part of the country. Grey is right in that the majority of Australians use Daylight Savings.
All of Europe are here today
got me mann!
I live in Australia and work in a federal law jurisdiction, across all the states. The amount of time we spend quadruple checking we have entered the right time zones in our court calendars is ridiculous. The shift in daylight saving times means that we have to be aware of 5 different zones.
Then, throw in the confusion of western Australia getting rid of DST. I was putting "AWDT" on calendars for WEEKS before remembering it didn't exist
good insight, also I really dislike DST, all it does is mess with my sleep patterns
Then take an afternoon nap DUMMY!
People can have a hard time falling asleep when they want to DUMMY!
Not gonna lie, as an Arizonan, when I first watched this video years ago I learned how extensive daylight saving time was. I kind of knew that some people would switch their clocks around sometimes, and that was why I would have to change my clocks on some stuff that was hooked up to the internet, switching it between timezones. I just didn't realized that WE are the weird ones. Makes more sense now though, why when people online would be trying to schedule a meeting, ask me what timezone I'm in, and I would just have to say "I dunno, it changes".
Arizona isn’t the weird one. It’s the _sane_ one.
@@yousorooo Exactly
It drives me nuts that we finally have people realizing that moving the clocks around is a NIGHTMARE, but they've all decided the FALSE TIME is the correct solution.
HEAR HEAR!!!!
Daylight savings time one of the most stupidest ideas ever period.
Am I the only one who found it hilarious when CGP said "Most of Australia follows DST, but not the Northern territory, Western, and Queensland" while showing an image of at least 60% of Australia NOT following DST? =p
He means most of the population...
And even if he meant the territories, he still named less than half of them.
NSW and Victoria have more people then all those states combined......
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I don't doubt that the areas included in DST have the highest population and population density, but just on face value it's funny.
It's similar in funny to when some one says something like "Apples are EXACTLY like oranges except different color, different texture, different flavor, and basically completely different fruit, so EXACTLY the same!"
(This is just an example, I've never met some one to compare apples and oranges like this, but you hear people compare other things like this. Though you get the point I'm trying to make, right? Like when some one compares something saying it's "just alike" while rattling off all the differences.)
Tenshi Chan
depends how you count, to me i see the statement 'most of australia' as a representation of area, in which case yea, he had it backwards. About 1/3 of the country fits into lovely WA here, yeat we have a tiny population and another amazing feature, we provide most of the country its money. but yeah, depends how you count it, if its number of states and territories then its 3/7, if its population its 2/3ish
I only change my clock backwards whenever my break time is almost over.
Break time saving
@@SamaatAdon
indeed
same
*Hello darkness my old friend, soon you'll be here at 4PM.*
So many retro memes! 😂
Here's a thought, let's not follow daylight savings time and instead everyone in the world should follow only one big standard time all year round. Problem solved.
The earth rotates so you can't have everyone on one time.
Aecacolo Yes you can. Sure, the sun goes up and down at different times around the world, but that doesn't really matter at all. We all use a 24 hour clock, so why shouldn't we all keep the same time? I live in Europe, but if there is a huge live stream in America I would like to watch, I constantly have problems timing when it happens in my zone, compared to when it happens there. It would just be more convenient, to have one standard time.
So the world should change its policy because you cant do simple maths
Ebber The US uses 12-hour clocks. We're ... not too bright on this topic.
denimadept But you're using A.M. and P.M., which makes it a 24 hour clock ;)
No one really likes to get up an hour early just catch an extra hour of sunlight,just to have to bed early and do the same thing the next day. The body clock doesn't work that way. In fact it puts stress on the body. That is why you feel tired at the end of the day because you didn't get full rest period.
Indiana ignored it too for a long time as well and only adopted it when the rest of the world started considering dropping it. We didn't adopt it initially because roosters never cared what time you set the clock too
The reasoning behind adopting it in the late 90s or 2000s was that it caused confusion when Chicago would change and we wouldn't. Somehow them fiddling with their clocks and getting confused over what time it was was somehow our problem.
Not me trying to understand where my hour go 😂
Um, if you want more sunlight, why not just get the fuck up at 5 AM, instead of changing the entire country's clock?!
Here in England, during BST (our version of Daylight Saving Time) the sun rises round about 4am and at 10pm
Well at 5am, it's not really sunny where I live. It wouldn't make sense
Around 6am is when the sun comes up where I live.
lol the sun rises and falls differently at any given point on the earth. I guess you mean for people to wake up when the sun rises. In that case I get it but the thing is that big business etc... will have more to say about it than anyone else because it determines when the peons do their chores.
Because you want sunlight for when you get home from your job where your employer sets the hours (this doesn't apply to all jobs ofc). Also 5am? F*** that!
Regardless, we should certainly do away with DST completely, it's bloody annoying. If we want more sunlight, just stay in DST forever and call it standard time.
Beats me. They don't know that not everyone is not on the same time from east to west. In the east we are 3 hours ahead of them in california. So they are 3 hours behind. So it is really useless no matter where you live.
It's interesting to note that we didn't even need standardized time zones until the industrial revolution (specifically, steam locomotives) but now technology has become so deeply intertwined in society that it's the complexity of dealing with DST in that technical world- changing the clocks of all those computer systems, for example- that is a main argument to get rid of DST.
If we could even remain consistent within timezones and stick to local solar time, but no - as it turns out "Time of day" is very much a social construct and for many people around the world a deeply oppressive one at that. Think of the poor spaniards from whom the clock time is sometimes up to three hours ahead of the local solar time. Mainly because Franco wanted to be pals with Hitler and so decreed that Spain's clocks should match those of Germany, and in post-Franco, they opted to stay on CET because that was more convinient to the EU. Yes, Spain really should be on UTC and maybe even on UTC+1, which many people somehow find very supricing - they think mainland Spain is much futher to the east than it actually is, simply because the clock stay on CET when you go there
once again it is daylight saving time and i’m sad about having lost an hour of sleep last night
I will never forget about that time I told my friends over discord to hop onto gartic phone at 6 p.m. greenwich time (3 hours of difference with my country when they're not in summer). Greenwich is a city in the UK, and the UK uses daylight saving time, and so by the time I realized that, I had already been an hour late to the thing and everyone had already left.
Wait. so GMT also changes? Or is it just the Greenwich time that changes?
@@Redwan777 Technically, they switch from GMT to BST (British Summer Time).
So, the best move is to use UTC (Universal Co-ordinated Time) which is +/-0 year round.
A comprehensive account of DST. Thank you so much CGP Grey. Keep up the good work. 👏👏
I recently been randomly binging CGP's content and seeing this one was posted 8 years ago makes me excited for the many hour's of quality informative entertainment i have left!
Although international meetings are more common than ever, the whole timezone headache has been pretty much solved by software. Just send an invite in your local time zone and the software will convert it for each recipient, all time zone and daylight saving shenanigans figured out for you by the machine.
Not all, there are always kinks in the armor 5:39 . . . as is said in the video itself turns out
I'm pretty sure I got a recommendation of this video every year since it came out 😂 time to watch it again
No light is saved. It shouldn’t be called that. Instead call it daylight shifting time. Or just abolish it.
Best we abolish it anyway. It doesn't help much to little.
It’s the best thing ever created!
Who needs light already at 6?
It’s more about having fun and enjoying with your kids.
There’s nothing more fun that being able to do everything outside in the light until 10/11pm!
It must be a permanent thing though. No changing it backwards
@@Ron.S. You're right; the *change* should be abolished, but not DST. DST should be permanent and "standard time" should be abolished.
@@daltonrandall4348 That doesn't help either. That'd mean that for me, the sun would rise at 09:49 on the shortest day and will not rise earlier than 09:00 for 2 full months. Not only will it disturb our sleep but also cause more accidents during rush hour combined with the winter conditions.
Joshua Baruch If the sun isn't rising until later, how is it disturbing your sleep?
I'm a huge advocate for abolishing daylight savings. Is it so hard to just change your schedule over the coarse of the day as opposed to screwing with everyone's perception of time?
Exactly!
I love when old Grey videos pop into my recommended videos
Hello to everyone watching this during the end of daylight savings in 2021
Dear Canada,
Get rid of DST in Alberta. I can’t speak for other provinces, but trust me. It’s not going to make a difference. We never get out anyway.
Thank you, from a Canadian Citzen.
I Agree!! Please run against Trudope, you'd make a far better PM! Then again so would my cat, Spooky! Cheers!
Thank you! I never understood why the time changed. Whenever I asked someone I'd always get one of two responses, 'Because of the farmers" or "To make an extra hour of daylight." Both answered seemed nonsensical to me.
I wish my government would just pick a time and stick with it. Changing it is annoying.
LegoGirl1990 No you have this wrong (at least from the perspective of the country i live in and its States). The city folk have DST because it is to complex for them to simply start earlier if they wish to have more daylight time. They complain that my state doesn't have DST because "the Farmers whinge as they have to get up to early as it is". Well yes... because they aren't lazy fks and are logical and animals don't change their biological clocks just because city folk are to lazy to get up an hour earlier if they wish to have more time of an afternoon!
Disclaimer: I'm not a farmer. And DST needs to DIAF.. its 2014! ;)
LegoGirl1990
Well.. farmers do care what time it is. not in the traditional "it must be 08:30 so i can start work". But more in line with what you hinted at... The cows like to be milked at certain times etc :) I'm not a farmer myself. But i do come in direct contact with many of them. And my father was a cane farmer and a dairy farmer in his young years. Today.. we just drilled a water bore for a dairy farmer. ;) But i digress. DIAF=die in a fire. SO yes.. you got that pretty much right. :)
PS. LEGO rules!! (technic anyway :P).
2:27 if you had made this in 2005, you'd know Indiana was the third to not observe it either. They did that for a multitude of reasons, but since the state is also in Eastern and Central zones, they finally passed a bill in 2005 for the entire state to now observe it, not just the big cities.
Thanks for this clear, comprehensive explanation.