Daylight Saving Time Explained

I suspect you see a semi-annual spike in hits for this video

so this mess started because a man wanted to catch bugs

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.

Winter in Finland: 5 hours of daylight Summer in Finland: 23 hours of daylight Daylight saving time: Obsolete

"Yo dawg I heard you like timezones so we put timezones in your timezones"

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.

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.

Thanks YouTube recommendations for knowing the time of year

Can we all appreciate this line Arizona: yo dawg, i heard you like timezones so we put timezones in your timezone

The EU is finally going to get rid of this madness starting in 2022.

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.

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.

My country was using daylight saving until a few years ago, then it was lifted. Now our clocks are stable and everyone is happier

It's crazy how well structured this video from 8 years ago is. Most youtubers can only wish for such a throwback

"Most of Australia uses daylight savings except for most of the country"

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.

you put the picture of sydney upside down i get it

I live near death valley. WE HAVE PLENTY OF SUNSHINE STOP CHANGING MY HOURS

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.

I watched this video thinking it was new. Shows you how timeless his videos are