QOTU: Daylight Savings Time - why do we do it?

[Belac889]

Don't get rid of daylight saving time! It's

good for kids walking to school!

[carrlozXemiliano]

if we get rid of daylight savings time, i wont have that extra hour of sleep when its time to set it an hour back(or ahead i get confused)

[huskypuppylove]

Temple run!! Sorry, I love that game lol. Love you, Kristina!!

[Lgirl614]

Daylight Savings time was actually started during World War I to conserve fuel needed to create power for weapons making. It was implemented for almost the entire year during WWII, in order to maximize weapons production, but states were given the choice whether or not to participate, which obviously caused problems.

Daylight savings time as we know it was actually implemented by Richard Nixon, one of his few lasting positive legacies.

There you go, for those who wanted the actual answer :)

[CGStrawberry]

It's not always snowy in Christmas, in Australia it's like summer on Christmas.

[cooliopinkprincess]

Sometimes I can't understand what they're talking about. Silly me.

[ntcssj]

Since my sleep schedule has been quite messed up, lately, I found that our bodies have "zeitgebers" basically visual or other queues to keep track of our internal clocks, like the sun rise, animals sounds etc... so there's a word for what they were talking about around 2:52

[lomsb]

SO CRAZY I AM PLAYING TEMPLE RUN RIGHT NOWWW!!!!!!

[potionmastersflower]

I feel like keeping track of time is mainly to keep us organised. Otherwise we wouldn't know when to meet people, when to go to class, etc, and everything would be a big mess :P

Also part of the reason to stop daylight savings in Western Australia was for the farmers. It was like they still had to get milk to whoever takes milk to process it at what we considered the same time, but the cows though it was an hour too early or something. But yeah, I love these questions! (woops rambling)

[RavenclawGurl742]

Is the answer to this question "no"?

[eruiel]

We've got Daylight saving time in France, but our translation for it in english would be "Winter time" (heure d'hiver) or "Summer time" (heure d'été). It is used for a very simple reason: it allows to synchronise our rythm of life with the sun and therefore, to slow down our consuption of energy, specially from lighting and heating. So I guess it is used for the same reason all over the world.

[IrishMudblood]

love the necklace ;)

[MelonBerriable]

There is a podcast called StarTalk by Neil DeGrasse Tyson that explains all of this really well. You should look it up. The episode was called Time Lords -- The Science of Keeping Time.

[SonsofAdmiralettes]

OMG!! When you were saying it wasn't a tardis necklace, MY tardis necklace I'd ordered had just arrived and I was putting it on!! :D

[Scramalope]

So I found this. " The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin (portrait at right) during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project." " Also found this... "Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1975 showed that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a small but significant amount, about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances. "

[LeEtoile]

I live in Arizona where only parts of the state actually do daylight savings time.

[buddytarns]

New Zealand has day light savings. I found it odd when I was in parts of Australia that didn't have it and it was really daylight at 4 in the morning

[ThereSoDone]

It is so children don't have to go to school in the dark.

[Ubergeek0]

had to note: just because a certain place doesn't observe DLS, it doesn't make it less sunny at night or lower the heat. it just changes the human aspect, we change our observation and customs- the sun doesn't. so the west often doesn't change their clocks so the people won't change their schedules as the seasons change.

[nix1032]

People used to judge what time of the day it was based on the position of the Sun in the sky so I'm guessing that Daylight Saving's Time was created as a way to account for the time during the winter months when there is less sunlight.

[BettyISAWESOMEE]

Clearly Brian's mum went over there to get the better grain for Brian, because the grain is always better on the other side.

[BreanaMurphy]

My roommate says that China doesn't do daylight's savings time (she's from there.)

[hmksprouse]

We have one town here that doesn't do Daylight's Saving Time. I live in Indiana in the central timezone, but it's really close to eastern time. This town switches timezones based on whether it's DST or not.

This is a somewhat random fact, but we just learned how timezones were created in my AP U.S. history class. The railroad companies started them in the late 1800s to help schedule trains. Before that the time was different from town to town because of the Sun.

[CharlineLikesC]

CGPGrey did a wonderful video about daylight saving time where explains the why and all advantages and disadvantages.

As far as I remeber from the video it was some kind of biologist who invented daylight saving time, because he wanted more daylight to catch butterflies and study insects.

Oh and yes we have daylight saving time here in Europe, I can tell mostly for Germany. But for example Argentina hasn't. On wikipedia are great maps with all the details!

[dinosluvties]

TEXAS DOES DAYLIGHTS SAVING TIME!

[thedoctordevon]

"Yeah... the moon does... that.... thing" - Liz

also didn't you watch national treasure?

[TheAwkwardDalek]

we have day light savings time in only a few states of australia

[andresmunoz123campos]

hey kristina what do you think about luke and ingrid being together?

[Smileyellafant]

Arizona doesn't do daylight savings

[VickieVlogsStuff]

Temple Run FTW!

[Forestsummoner]

Question of the universe: what came first the chicken or the egg?

[KnasMuuIda]

We have a shorter period of daylight saving time, but it's only like two weeks. So we start one week after you and then end one week before you.

[darkeyes247]

If you get rid of daylight savings time I'd be getting up for work in the dark and going home in the dark. I'd never see daylight during the winter months.

I'm happy we've got daylight savings.

[darkeyes247]

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect but actually from a non linear, non subjective view point it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timmy wimmy... stuff.

Sorry couldn't help myself.

[Aradion15]

@darkeyes247 I scrolled down, thinking "Someone is going to quote Doctor Who." And there it was, right at the top. I like you. =)

[darkeyes247]

@Aradion15 Thanks very much!!

[Mortalfreak876]

I think its a cheap tardis knock off from china

[mith59]

Time is the perception of cause and effect. Doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

[Ploofle]

Haha the Kristina-and-Liz-format is AWESOME. xD

[CatherineDevonald]

Its all about trade :)

[MariahTheTuber]

Also like nature patterns, like how bear hibernate in the winter

[tbloodawesome]

If no one on earth could neither see, hear or speak how do you think humans would function as a community?

[shannoneliza11]

DST is to keep as much day light as possible and as much darkness as possible so in the winter is gets darker elair so u wake at a differnet time so you can have as much daylight before sunset u get it?

[WeeBB100]

liz was right, during the war farmers needed to get up earlier, so they stupidly decided to set the clock back an hour during the summer

[baddogonline]

DLS time is still usefull for those of us who wake up before 7:00 a.m. ;)

[HeatherToothman]

Daylight Savings Time was explained, at least to me, that durring WW2 we, Americans, needed to reserve resources like electricity and etc so in order to do so we would fall back in Autumn and spring forward in the Spring to make use of as much light as possible at the time. Farmers would have gotten up before dawn nevertheless and still do.

[dmt543nerd]

I think labeling, categorizing, and mapping things out in our lives give us a feeling of control over a completely indomitable life.

[lipsmackergal5]

in India theres no daylight savings

[niminonono]

@PuffyTIgor wow thats really interesting. Do you know the name of the study or where i could get more info on it?

[inajefflymanner]

Apply everything we know (and don't know) about the physical universe and put it on a simulated computer, every star, every galaxy, and every other structure's we have mapped out in the universe, represent them in an equation for this computer to understand, and reverse their velocities's in accordance, When we do this we see that black holes create clusters of entire galaxies, and eventually cluster themselves, until One is formed.

Totally works right!?!?

[ElizabethBabb1]

Brian's mom crossed the road because she was stuck in the grain time loop thing and her husband crossed it to stop her...and the rest goes along with your brother's story.

[Antworkk]

I thought daylight savings started in WWI to save fuel - I guess that's just in Europe?

[zero1343]

-doctor who quote-

[SynesthesiaSoup]

If you bring it nearer, I could translate it!

[TalmaesWorld]

Wasn't it because of shadows? Like the time of day is indicated by light, and if you watched the shadow of a tree for a full day it would go full circle like a hand on a clock right? Maybe I'm just making this up haha <3

[nony10102]

Hey I have a question

How do you express love?

[Litheran]

Time is a string upon which we hang the progression of events that make up history.

[logistica55]

you guys are on a such lower altitude i guess day light saving time just doesn't make sense. I live in sweden, which is on the same altitude as Alaska and if we didn't use day light saving time it would be dark here for forever during winter. Also, there are countries that don't use this at all, China, for example, stay on one time, all the time.

[wintermaki]

There's no daylight savings time here in Hawaii -- which I like, cause it never really made any sense to me anyway...

[polomonkey27]

Daylight savings time deals with kids going to school now, because they don't want them standing in the dark waiting for buses.

[wiffleclaw]

This video was not a boar but it featured one!

[AngelCrystalProduct]

"Time is a manmade creation to measure physical progression and change. For without time, man would be lost and would have no direction to travel. One would never know when they would arrive some place or when to depart. There would be no way to document when life began and when it ended. Eternally time is irrelevant, but man is only human on Earth." --Thomas C. Colvin

TCC

[Kaloxus]

Why are we here? What is the meaning of life, from your own opinion?

[kmzoeller]

Indiana doesn't have daylight savings time. The reason I heard was because the cows are on a regular schedule and changing the time throws off their milk production. (Seriously.)

[lauramariewheeler]

@kmzoeller This changed a couple of years ago. Now Arizona is that only state that doesn't.

[niminonono]

Wonderful series so far btw ;)

[niminonono]

I think like, yeah days and seasons, but also wanting to refer to something you did before now and how far before now it happened or to plan ahead, that must have something to do with structuring time.

I dont really know that i need daylight saving time, i have never paid attention to it: it just always seemed like a really weird tradition noone could get over

[dynamitekatie]

Manitoba Canada runs on daylight savings time. All of Canada does except Saskatchewan. I like it, otherwise in winter it would be dark outside until past 9:00 every morning, and that is dreadful.

[Virini]

Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once. It's pretty simple, really.

[GoldNight154]

You switch the clocks back because we lose sunlight so when we put it back we get more hours of sunlight.

[MaddieTheMockingjay]

"Time is like Temple Run. You fall off and get eaten by monkeys"

[LifeisaMixedTape]

Arizona does NOT have daylight savings time, it rules. The reason we don't have daylight savings time is because we have enough hot hours in the day and we didn't need the extra hour. True story(ish).

[InevitableSecrets]

more sunlight in the evening makes cheaper and less electricity needed or at least that's the way it was back in the day.

[stationarywanderer8]

What is life? What does it mean to be living?

[ElringthianLady]

All Doctor Who nerds unite on questions about time!

[serendipity4212]

But if we get rid of daylight savings time, then that means we don't get that awesome 25 hour day once a year.

[SpartanStig117]

"should we shower?" does that mean you two showered together?

[RebeccaLovesBooks]

We do have daylight savings in Canada!

[ItsLikeLauren]

Yeah Arizona doesn't do day light savings time (except for the Native American reservations in the very north east corner of the state). I love it, I think we definitely should just do away with daylight savings time.

[Cheerytadpole123]

We don't do daylight savings time here in Hawaii!

[stampsme]

Australia had a 4 year trial of day light savings, then the year after we had a vote whether to keep doing it or not. We don't have it anymore

[rshorner02]

@stampsme Australia has daylight savings... Queensland is the only state that doesn't, I think.

[Gryfflepuffinclaw]

@rshorner02 And WA.

[rshorner02]

@Gryfflepuffinclaw Really? Well, I learned something today =)

[stampsme]

@rshorner02 No, I live in Australia, Perth. We did a 4 year trail and then it ended because it got voted out.

[epiclexie]

Jewish holidays are centered around the moon phases which is why the dates change every year!

[MrChillinwithdillon]

Saskatchewan doesn't do daylight savings time. Muahahaha. Central Standard Time!

[LAshlieH]

Daylight savings time was created by F.D.R in the 30's to save electricity.

[sonybhangra]

y'all are funny and thought provoking! i like this vlog series so far (:

[Bramtic]

Daylight Saving Time is somewhat outmoded, because people don't work outside or rely on sunlight much anymore. Arizona and Hawaii both don't do it because they have plenty of sun during the summer (well, all year). I recommend checking out CGPGrey's excellent and entertaining video on Daylight Saving Time and even more things that make it confusing.

[iKidForever]

Sorry to u British when I wrote my last comment I thought you didn't do it

[iKidForever]

Haha when I first heard you talk about how we Americans turn the clock back I was like is a Brit talking about that but then I remembers you are an American haha I'm so stupid

[cfloster]

we use daylights savings time to save on energy and not use so much of it when we can use natural light. That's why a couple of years ago, America's daylights saving time got pushed back or something, it was so we could save more energy.

[HermioneNerdfighterW]

do they even make TARDIS necklaces if anyone knows tell me ~8)

[kashiiampersand]

Okinawa doesn't do it!

[kristinahorner]

@IntellectualsNY that is mean to say.

[IntellectualsNY]

@kristinahorner I still think she is cute though, in fact, I'd love to copulate with her. I always found chubby white girls cute :)

[Alactriann]

We don't do daylight savings in Arizona

[PuffyTIgor]

"'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable."

Well said River Tam.

[PuffyTIgor]

There was a study where a scientist was tested to stay in a completely locked room, do work, eat, sleep, the normal, but with no clocks and no sun/moonlight to go by for 3 months. She ended up staying up for as long as 36hours and sleeping for 27hours. She only thought 2 weeks went by when she was pulled out. Time is an illusion. If we didn't have it, we could work longer and more efficiently.

[WarmWeatherGuy]

Please don't vote.

[DizzehxxMitizzeh42]

I kept thinking your necklace was a Dradle. O.o

[DarkenedYeastExtract]

the reason why some states/countries don't have daylights savings is due to them being closer to the equator and not having the shorter/longer day hours in Winter and Summer.

[thisisnotHolly]

Some states of Australia have it some don't, we voted against it in Western Australia and don't have it any more

[kayli934]

I live in Saskatchewan Canada and we are huge into farming and I don't think we ever have. I don't understand it personally since I have never had to change my clocks :D

[12345aaron10]

Yes I have daylight savings and I live in NSW Australia. But we have daylight savings in your winter so are about 24 hours ahead of you

[Quesnelle23]

Everything is like temple Run.

[katarinavlogs]

Canada has daylight savings in most provinces, but not in Saskatchewan. Which is kind of strange because Saskatchewan is the farming province.

[ibaibkid]

best ending to a video ever lol



[amyevekeegan]

There's very little that can confuse me more than time does. Even my sense of time is so terrible, haha. I love these videos! <3

[dolphin64575]

If we don't abolish DST in NY, I'm moving somewhere that doesn't observe it.

[TheWeasleySweater]

I like in a really weird state (Arizona) in which we don't do daylight savings for whatever reason and apparently there are some people living in Arizona that don't know that we don't do daylight savings so there are some people in Arizona that are on a different time than the rest of us. I find that hilarious for some odd reason...

[TheLegorockman]

I've only seen one comment referencing wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey

[AudaciousInrush]

Well most people assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

[bmbfranco]

Hawaii doesnt have daylight savings because its already too hot here so we dont need another hour of sun.

[makito8best7]

Here in Mexico we have the whole daylight savings time and most of the states follow it except for one: Sonora. People in Sonora thought it was a dumb idea and collectively decided not to do it and the rest of the country kind of ignored them.

I don´t know why I thought this would be interesting but yeah, there you have it.

[emurqq]

I didn't really like this one as much as the other ones probably because almost all the questions in it have actual answers that can be answered by simply researching them.

[MissxLilison]

I adore these room vlogs! I love how... normal they are I guess! And real. I like seeing unedited and pretty much effortless videos like this. of course your edited videos are amazing, but I love these kind too.

[PhoenixTearsHealAll]

Originally there was a part of the year where farmers children didn't go to school in order to help with the harvest eventually say light savings was invented (by Ben Franklin) in order to gain extra time to work in the fields and allow children to continue their schooling.

[TotallyTscopeTV]

You see, time isn't just a straight line like everyone thinks; it's really a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.

[STHayden]

love you guys. this has been another episode of "Kristina and Liz prove why we need the scientific method". haha it's too funny but you guys are not good at answer "mystical questions" that have plenty of fact to back then up :P

[ZoraMalfoy]

No DST here. I just spend half the year paying attention to the Pacific Time Zone schedule for sports and TV shows and the other half of the year on Mountain. I don't watch a whole lot of TV so it's not too big of a deal. People here literally just shrug and go "the TV schedule changed, guess I'll have to watch [insert title here] at 7pm on Tuesdays instead of 8" (or vice versa).

[ZoraMalfoy]

@ZoraMalfoy Oh, and even though we're technically the strange ones for not participating in it, we just think that the 48 states that do are just weird like that. Those of us who were either born here or have lived here for a long time, just don't understand why people change their clocks back and forth, even knowing that it was for the harvest. We just think people should set their alarms earlier/later if they feel like they need to, rather than having most of the country change their clocks.

[360army]

what has happened to your camera?

[itsjustjamo]

@360army She is using the webcam in her laptop rather than her fancy dslr

[xxgravityupxx]

I thought daylight savings was invented so the railroad schedules didn't get mixed up...

[Zonks2312]

@xxgravityupxx

no that was the time zones. but close.

[shezz05]

some states in Australia have daylight savings, the ones who do are currently in daylight saving mode :D

[xlovelinks]

Like you said we do have it in England/UK but the governments currently deciding whether to get rid of daylight saving time- if we do then one year we'd skip it and then go back to moving the clock forwards and backwards the next year etc; kind of complicated:L

[mgitm10]

interesting fact: in England the time of day was only standardised for the whole country when trains were invented.

[eireannist]

If we didn't think about the time thing, how would birthdays be known? Like, how would you know what age you were?

[alcoholicferrets]

@eireannist People used to not know their exact birthdays and only had an approximate age.

[JSMemoir]

@kristinahorner I can't tell precisely because the quality isn't the best, but I'm pretty sure the necklace you're wearing is fortune...I think. :)

[dieskie2479]

We have also an hour difference in summer and winter.

But I thought it was just energy saving.

You know in the summer it's longer light outside so you don't have to put lights on.

And in the winter we adjust the time so we still don't have to put lights on that early.

energy saving ;)

I'm sorry I don't know if I'm saying the season ''winter'' right.....

[nukemz]

my brain hurts.

[unforgettable789]

I just wanted to say that we got the 365 day year from the Egyptians because the Nile flooded annually on a regular basis and they constructed their calendar from that.

There are probably other reasons, but this was the first, at least. xD

[mrspineapple13]

the biggest question to EVER answer:

what is the point to anything?

[andrineslife]

I'm pro daylight savings time, it usually makes the cows quiet for a bit longer, more sleep for me :)

[snowpixie15]

I love these videos! They're great.

[dollymadge]

I the US, Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that don't do daylight savings(:

[waigurl19]

@dollymadge I'm guessing the reason why Hawaii doesn't do it has something to do with the location as it relates to the rest of the country or something, but do you know why Arizona doesn't do daylight savings? To me, it just seems like it'd be logical to do it because all the surrounding states do.

[Fixationish]

@waigurl19 Arizona doesn't need more daylight time - it's very very hot there and air conditioning is expensive. This goes for Hawaii as well.

[waigurl19]

@Fixationish But aren't there other place that are also extremely hot and have expensive air conditioning that do have daylight savings time? I just don't understand the difference, I guess.

[ZoraMalfoy]

@Fixationish I don't think that the heat really has much to do with it, because New Mexico and Nevada (among other states) can have temperatures just as high and they participate in it. I've lived in AZ my whole life and I don't know the answer for us. I know that because Hawaii is so close to the equator, their daylight hours don't fluctuate much at all, so changing the time for them would probably give them less time than more.

[ZoraMalfoy]

@waigurl19 Arizona doesn't participate because we're just rebels like that. ;)

Honestly, I was born and raised here and daylight savings time makes no sense to me, because I don't know what it's like to live in a place that participates in it. I only know when daylight savings time comes because the TV schedule changes. ;)

*shrugs* To me, growing up without it, if you need more time in the day to get things done, you either get up a bit earlier or go to sleep later.

[crankdathits]

All of the states have daylight savings time, although not all countries do. It started in the 1940s by Dwight Eisenhower & wasn't just because of the farmers. Just so you know :)

[HeartedRabbit]

i've got daylight savings

[blessedbyacurse]

Daylight saving time was started so that farmers (and really just people in general) would have more daylight during planting and harvesting back in the days before electricity.

Farming is also the reason schools have summer vacations because kids were needed to help out around the farm in the summer/fall.

[thecanadianDJ]

@blessedbyacurse Umm, changing the clocks back does not change how much daylight we get.

[waigurl19]

@thecanadianDJ No, but it does change the time that daylight starts at. This is just my theory, I could be wrong, but if you run on a schedule where you need to start your work at a specific time in order to ship your product out at a specific time, the loss of daylight would effect your income. You could just adjust for daylight when needed, but it's easier to run on a timed and organized schedule.

[DrawingArcane]

ELOHEL I am enthsed.

[markisonlin3]

I heard that DST the system we use now only started being used around the time of World War I

[Darvaus]

I love daylight savings time, it means more light on summer evenings to be able.to go out and have good times with friends. What's.not to like about that

[NobodySawThat]

I love it when the clock goes back - it gives me another hour to sleep :)

[jayliebs]

I 100% want to make a Vlogbrothers style video response to answer (to the best of my ability) these questions. . . . But idk if I have the time to do that today . . .

[marieisawesomeable]

you are awesome.. just saying :D

[21GeeOff21]

Pretty sure most countries don't do daylight savings time. And as far as leap year goes, In an actual year (one trip around the sun), there are 365.25 days. Every 4 years we add a day to make up for the whole day we have accumulated by skipping the previous 3/4ths of a day (+ the 4th year's .25 of a day).

PS

Daylight savings time is dumb and should go away. no need to "save daylight" when we have electricity... Just saying.

[AyeTerraFirma]

There is a real answer and it has to do with farmers and the harvest. There's more to do with it but I don't remember and I can't be bothered to actually look it up...

[HeartedRabbit]

i love these videos

[jlhulbe]

day light savings time adjusted time to go with the change of daylight during the year. it was to allow more daylight for harvesting. Arizona does not do a time change and europe changes a week before us! thanks for the vid!

[MajorlyAlexa]

haha i love these(:

[marcusw89]

Great vid.

[thepartnerincrime]

Nice Robe Kristina! :P

[ItsAlyssaVlogs]

Awesome!