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I'm in total agreement. All that DST does is screw with everyone. How the hell did people manage BEFORE our "almighty time changers" got it into their head that changing our clocks would serve any purpose other than to mess us up. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And DST is like trying to fix a car engine that's already running smooth & functional with no problems. But heyyy, let's GIVE it a problem. Yeah, that's the ticket. Are "they" afraid NO DST would confuse us and cause armageddon?
I say we do away with timezones, do 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. That would keep the length of a second roughly the same, going from I think 86,400 a day to 100,000 per day.
Also, get rid of the fucking mile, inch, Farenheit and all that other shit that ends, begins and includes random numbers. We need metric measurements in units of ten. It will be much simpler that way.
dst is dumb stupid time. created by idiots that also gave us the drug war laws. My body runs on standard time. If people want to go to work an hour earlier let Them get up earlier. Stop punishing everyone with this stupid time changing.
Easily the best part of this video is the whole ten vs. twelve thing. it never occured to me that we use ten because we have ten fingers. I agree that 12 would be a better number, just as 360 degrees in a circle is far more divisible than 100 would be. Unfortunately, almost every culture in the world only has 9 digits, so it would be hard to switch to make 2 new digits for 10 and 11 and have 12 look like 10. very intriguing video overall.
@itscrunk22 Did you drop out of school after 4th grade? I'm not being facetious, just really curious. How is it possible for someone with any real education not to know the reason we have a decimal system of numbers? And that in the decimal system there are 10 symbols (what you mistakenly call "digits"), not 9.
Penn seems to forget about a bunch of shit when making an argument. he thinks of the very situation but he never thinks of the reprecussions or anything like that I have seen him do this in a number of videos.
The twelve system for clocks is something I thought of as well. My idea though was to switch to Base 12. In a base Twelve system, "10" = one Twelve and zero Ones. This isn't actually harder than base 10. It seems harder only because we aren't used to thinking that way. Instead of 9,10,11,12; base twelve would count up like 9,A,B,10. I use A and B only because we lack single digit numerals for 10 and 11. But using this system would mean midnight would be at 20:00, and hours would end at 0:50.
I remember some guy proposed the 10 month calender back in the mid 90s. It was 5 months with 37 days and 5 months with 36 days. It was actually a good idea and it completely cut out daylight savings. But like all good proposals to government, it was shot down. Anyone remember who that was?
and besides, why call it daylight savings? no matter what you spend all the daylight you get in a day that same day. if only we could save daylight then we could spend it at a later date.
hahahah penn is such a genius! he reminds me of benjamin franklin! proposing things that seem so preposterous to most people, but are really good ideas if you really really think about. hes just got a deep brain.
but of course, they say that benjamin franklin was the one who postulated the idea of daylight savings. (if you believe everything you hear in national treasure)
YES, ME TOO! Here we don´t call it savings-time, we call it summer-time. But due to the EU we now have to put up with that time alot longer than it should be, because there should be a stupid standard :P So it begins in march and stops somewhere in October.. A while before that people tend to be irritated, since it´s starting to get dark alot earlier, but we´re still supposed to run on summer-time.
Btw, time is an illusion. It´s all about movement and things deteriorating or growing.
er... when will the day switch over? If it where to change at a specific time every day, then you might find that it changes in the middle of the "day" for your location. Time zones make sense, daylight savings time does not. Get rid of it completely. Arizona doesn't do daylight savings time and it's great. I wish everyone was as smart.
Arizona has a mail order PHD degree and NO OCEAN FRONT property... Plenty of sand though.... Ah, fuck Arizona! Let's get rid of LEAP YEAR while we're at it, in fact, the whole month of FEBRUARY should go! 28 days? 29 days? Fuck that! "Hey Mr. February, make up your mind or get the fuck off my calendar!" How about ONE BIG STATE? No more STATE LINES, COUNTY LINES... ONE BIG ASS STATE called AMERICA!
We could also get rid of people who post long negative comments that add no value to the conversation.
I'm sure that because some people do stupid stuff, it means that everything they do must be stupid. And ocean front property does a lot to increase the IQ ... because surfers are such intelligent people.
DS is crap. It's supposed to save us money on electricity and recent studies show that it actually increases energy use. FAIL!
You assume I'm a surfer? LOL Why not a fuckin marine biologist? Based on your comment about "surfing", I guess I need to be a juggling magician to have an IQ above 80, huh?
Daylight Savings, actually SAVES LIVES because of the dusk/dawn "glare effect" for drivers. Businesses that WASTE ENERGY because they're open past dusk (ie: extra lights, signage, etc.) now can power down when it's still light. Car battery life is less when you drive more with LIGHTS ON.
Value? This conversation is one of VALUE? LOL This video is of VALUE? If you're a spokesperson for Arizona, I guess Arizona is FILLED WITH STUPID PEOPLE, huh? The only thing this video does is poke fun at DS, and the 30 minute "New Foundland" time zone.
DS isn't rocket science. Loosen up nthnlsmmrs... maybe the SUN in ARIZONA is drying out that grey gunk between your ears (called a brain).
Number systems are arbitrary. It shouldn't technically be any harder to use one system over another so long as you've been taught that system all of your life. But I guess it depends on what you're talking about. I'm fine using the decimal system for problems in every day life but I can understand the frustration with time measurements, which I believe are based primarily on navigation and geometry.
base 12, base 2, base 16, base 8, any number system is just the same, you can use math for any form of it, which is cool.
almost all non-metric systems are purely born out of convenience in their original use. like a cup is a cup, a teaspoon is a teaspoon. and the numbers basically are fractions of each other, which is easier to do when doing stuff like cooking, which i'm sure was more popular
Daylight savings is an arbitrary system of control implemented in the United States during World War I, primarily to save fuel by reducing the need to use artificial lighting. There is however, no solid evidence that it achieves that effect. Also, there were several counties in the US that protested until the federal government cracked down and forced the dissenting counties in line to comply.
I don't think so. He's said it in a few other videos *Usually referencing to the show*, but I think he didn't use bullshit because of the context of the subject.
Bullshit by the show's definition are beliefs or systems that at least have SOME reason for people to buy into them, no matter how easily they can be debunked. Daylight Savings means nothing. It does nothing but set our clocks backwards and forwards 1 hour. There is nothing to gain or lose from it; its purpose is the sum of shit.
DST really messes up people who work night shifts. I guess a global time would mess people up with the sun being out at midnight, but people near the poles have to deal with that sort of thing anyway. I'm still not sure about global time, but definitely get rid of Daylight Saving Time.
@blizzard242 NO!!!! LOL I need that five paychecks every three months. That comes in handy. Think about it. 13 months can be used in the credit card companies advantage.
U.S. states are not required to use daylight savings time, but each state can choose individually to use it or not.
Arizona, for instance, does not use 'daylight savings time'.
I was just thinking, these days most digital clocks and almost all computers, automatically account for daylight savings time; I wonder if people in Arizona have to adjust their clocks anyway.
Daylight savings moves one hour from the early morning, while most people are still sleeping, to the evening. This allows workers, who usually have to go to work from a set time in the morning to a set time at night, to spend an extra hour outside taking advantage of the warmer weather during summer to play sports or with their children. How can that be a bad thing?
Western Australia doesn't have daylight savings. Move there is you hate it so much.
This is the first time I've seen Penn's claim to nuttiness for my own eyes.
Sure time of day is a concept, but it is a useful one based on principles of language. Noon is 12pm, approximately the middle of the day and lunch time. Morning is pre-noon and afternoon is...well...post-noon. All these words relate to specific times. Midnight has a direct relation to 12am. Could midnight be 4pm or 10am depending on where you are? No, because it doesn't make sense to the language we use.
Wow, I cannot believe there are people that think getting rid of time zones would be a good idea, after all the Y2Krazies died down. Let's say you DO somehow fix almost EVERY computer system in the world to deal with no time zones. Do you realize how much people would be screwed up by it? I live in EST which is -5hrs GM, over in Cali they are -8GM. Get rid of time zones in CA and now people have to BE at work at 1am, get off at around 10 and lunch is at 4AM.
Books, movies, ship logs, flight itineraries, wake-up services, reservations, anything that uses time as a marker would be SO SCREWED UP without time zones. With time zones as they are 3pm is pretty much the same almost everywhere in the world, in the past, and most likely in the future. You read in a book that something happened at midnight, and you can completely imagine the setting without having to memorize what midnight means in four hundred different places around the world.
Get rid of time zones? You think jet lag is bad now? Let's see, it is springtime you get on a plane in Los Angeles at 5am by your watch/cell phone/laptop, in the middle of the afternoon. You fly four hours to New York and land right before 9am, where normally where you live in San Diego it would just be getting dark and close to dinner time, but here in Manhattan people are having their afternoon coffee break and most kids still have an hour left of school.
i know people disagree on everything but i appreciate penn giving his opinion, the absolute worst thing that happens is it breaks your mind out of its shell and forces you to think about things in a differemt light
I heard somewhere that they're working on eliminating DST. I would much rather have my hour in the afternoon back. I also agree with your idea to make it one time all around the world. That would be great. I also like your idea of creating a new number system just for time instead of using decimal and going up to 11 and 12. Most people can't wrap their head around that though, and the crazies and stupids would bring an abrupt end to the world if we tried to implement it.
I agree. I've been thinking this for years that daylight savings time and time zones were totally stupid and pointless and just confuse people and cause more problems than they solve. I miss TV shows because I get the times confused because of time zones, and people end up being late, or early for work, or school because of daylight savings. Everybody is connected all over the world by the internet now, so we should all be on the same time.
I normaly like your blogs (or vlogs or whatever), but this one was just confused gibberish. You didn't really finish your point. I guess you should plan your presentation and argumentation a little before you record it on video.
Or just say whatever you want, but then it will probably suck like this video.
The time change thing is COMPLETELY worthless. The reason days are devided into 24 hours is due in part to the people LONG long ago who decided that the year should be 365 days long. If the day weren't 24 hours long - the yearly cycle thing wouldn't work out properly. The entire concept of "time" is a REDICULOUS idea though when you think about it. Clocks cause stress!
It is 1.10 am November 2 the First time around does this time even count? Im going to set my clock back in 50 minuets and an hour from now I might have to post this again.
Also (I guess I shouldn't have said "lastly" to begin my previous comment), your idea about having a dodecaphonic time-keeping system is unclear. There's 1440 minutes in every day, so would there be (1440/12) 120 minutes in every hour? Or would you redefine "minutes" so that there would be 12 of those in every hour - i.e., each minute would contain 600 seconds?
Lastly, I'll admit that having umpteen world time zones sucks - especially when there aren't always one-hour differences between successive time zones, like you mentioned - but living in North America, there aren't too many time zones to deal with, and I've always found it pretty easy. I knew when I was a kid that, for example, if a TV show came on at 3:00 Eastern, it was 1:00 Mountain; or 3:00 Pacific, it was 4:00 Mountain.
Also, it sucks because, when the rest of the country changes to Daylight Savings Time (or back to standard), things like TV schedules, Greyhound bus schedules, etc., change one hour relative to Saskatchewan. So, if I want to take the night bus to visit my parents during DST, it's at 12:30. However, if I want to take the night bus during non-DST, it's at 1:30. It's easy to forget; I've almost messed up and showed up an hour late.
I agree that Daylight Savings Time sucks. However, I live in Saskatchewan, which is the only Canadian province that doesn't use Daylight Savings Time, and it's an even bigger pain in the ass.
For one thing, I live only 30 minutes from Alberta, which does use DST; so if I'm going to Medicine Hat, the nearest city in Alberta, in the winter when Alberta is on standard time, I can leave town at 1:00 and get there at 12:55 or something.
I favor a day of 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds.
Seconds would be noticeably faster, minutes would be noticeably slower, but not crazy different. Hours would be looong.
It would be a lot easier to do conversions and math problems involving time.
One downside I've thought of is the problem we'd have in the many measurement units which are defined in part by time. All historical measurements would have to be converted, I would think.
Excellent stuff, as usual. And good to see that your grandparents taught you the correct pronunciation of Newfoundland. You'd be surprised how few non-Newfs get it right.
I will say like most things these days how we keep track of time has become more complicated than it needs to be & some simplification could possible help simplify matters. :) As for the idea of a having a single universal time that we all observe; well, we all already run on it we just don't agree to observe it the same way. As time progress and we move into space a single time will inevitably be adopted. Earth standard time perhaps but I am not hopeful that all the local times will disappear.
Daylight savings time is stupid but so is one world time. If it's 1pm here and it's day time in Spain it's 1pm too but is it morning... night? Who knows, all i know is that it would be much more confusing than it is now.
synced time zones would be awesome i could speak, whit my foreign co workers whit out have a calculator ready to convert all the times. you would make me happy ;)
I'm from Iceland, and we use GMT. That's SPACE TIME, baby! All the images of NASA are on *Icelandic time*. No daylights saving, no bullshit, just pure space time.
Correction: only from 1907 to 1934 were they actually self-governing. But the point is, they had a national anthem, a currency, a prime minister, a national flag, and everything. I wonder if there is any sort of modern movement to restore Newfoundland's independence?
Wait a second, Penn. Did you just say that a little while ago you came off DST? Didn't George W. Bush help pass the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which changed it around a little bit? Now daylight savings time ends on the first Sunday in November (instead of the end of October).
So now in 2009, daylight time begins on March 8 and ends on November 1.
I argue with my coworker about this a lot. We both wish they'd stop changing it, but he wishes they'd leave it on DS year-round, and I don't see how it makes a difference. He says he likes it on DS because he has more light in the evening to do outdoor activities. I tell him, "So what you have a problem with is your company's choice of when they want you to work, not what time your clock says." It's not important what your clock says; it's important where the SUN is when you get off work.
Why would even need a cycle at all? Couldn't we use computers to calculate everything and have a single number for time, no days, weeks, months or years and that could be used in the whole universe like the stardate. That way, it would be easy to keep track of historic dates and astronomical events as well.
In the sci-fi novel "A Deepness in the Sky" a sublight space-faring merchant civilization does that. Due to relativistic effects, different ships experience relatively (ha) less or more subjective time, but each spaceship's timekeeping system uses only seconds. They commonly plan their schedules based on kSecs and mSecs, a thousand seconds and a million seconds respectively.
Swatch did your time a few years ago... They made digital clocks that had both timescales. Normal and decimal with ONE timezone.. but it wasn't sucessful
No, I got it.... we come up with a new time and calendar called atheist time. We don't believe Jesus was anything special right, so why should we be forced to tell time by him. roflol
I hate Daylight Savings Time so much...I like the extra hour I'll get this weekend, but if it wasn't for the horrible hour I LOST in Spring I wouldn't need it in the first place, so let's just do away with the whole damn thing.
I do think that the idea that one only time for the world is a better idea. But the duodecimal thing wouldn't be necessary since 24 also divides the same way just as well. It's just not the lest common factor. But getting rid of AM and PM is already solved with military time, so we should just go by that.
I'm sorry but I feel that you're reaching a little too far on this one Penn. I completely appreciate your opinions and you do bring up interesting points, but this time . . . your argument is a bit weak. The reason we have daylight savings and don't have one time is because time is relative. General relativity governs the universe we live in and time will actually be different in different places.
Back in the day farmers sold their goods in markets... which other people with other jobs shopped for goods. They can't adjust their workday by the seasons to buy goods from the farmers.
That's a good point but we're not "back in the day" anymore. I don't think Daylight Savings Time was always stupid. It served a useful purpose but is largely irrelevant now.
There's more World of Warcraft players in the US than farmers. We now have LIGHT BULBS. As someone elsewhere commented on this video, a great deal of harvesting is done with machinery at night these days. Yes, DST was useful in the era of small family farms and before the era of electric lighting.
"back in the day" anymore, but don't kid yourself there are many nations that still farm during the day and have little to no machinery, not to mention no light bulbs.
You live in a sheltered world my friend.
Americans, so typically convoluted about what is really going on in the world.
What the hell are you rambling about? Penn's American. I'm American. We've been talking about policy in America. I don't care if other nations use DST or not. Let them do whatever's best for them. It's still an idiotic policy here in America.
US being a northern hemisphere country benefits greatly from DST. Retailers, sporting goods makers, and other businesses benefit from extra afternoon sunlight, as it induces customers to shop and to participate in outdoor afternoon sports.For example, in 1984 Fortune magazine estimated that a seven-week extension of DST would yield an additional $30 million for 7-11 stores, and the National Golf Foundation estimated the extension would increase golf industry revenues $200 million to $300 million
IF Their is a 16 hour day of light, and normalls the sun gets up at 5am, then moving the clock ahead one hour allows more sun to be enjoyed during the day.
The logic is simple, and you inability to follow it ends this conversation.
The "logic" is simple but idiotic. It only makes sense if for some silly reason you absolutely must get up the same hour every day all year. If you want "another hour" then GET UP AN HOUR EARLIER. That's even SIMPLER than changing the entire clock schedule. Wake up at a later time in winter and an earlier time in summer. With DST you already do this and all DST provides is the ILLUSION you wake up at the same hour all year round. It serves no useful purpose.
How bout they just open their shops one hour later during the summer months and one hour earlier during the winter months while keeping the time the same all year round. Is it really that hard? If it benefits business, store owners will learn to do this on their own without the help of DST.
I abhor Daylight's Savings time as well...It is pointless and mostly just a pain in the butt. However, apparently some farmer had wrote to his congressman to thank him for the extra hour of sunlight because his plants reall enjoyed it...So who am I to say...*rolls eyes*
Well he was not implying that, he honestly BELIEVED that the Government could make the day longer or shorter. As for Farms pffft, yeah right City Slicker. I used to live on one and next to two much larger ones.
Eh, daylight savings time is a symptom. Penn, you have often been a champion already of the real cause. The fight against irrationality. Solve that, and the rest of the nonsense fall like dominoes.
Trinidad does NOT use daylight savings time either...that's where my fiance' is from...she was very confused by the whole "spring ahead / fall back" concept...
I agree about daylight savings, and getting rid of timezones. The "dodeckafonic" way of breaking down time into smaller pieces may be a bit much for most folks.
As for am and pm, what would happen to "Good morning" vs "Good afternoon"? What would their be to confuse NPR listeners around mid day?
ummm... wow, man. i usually find your vids very enlightening... this one, not so much. daylight savings time i really don't find to be a problem, apart from remembering when it is...
base 12.
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B .
JackpotDen 1 year ago
DST should be a Penn and Teller: BS episode.
runryrorun 1 year ago
I totally agree. DST is shit. And that'll make a cool t-shirt.
kossmikham 1 year ago
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pennsays 1 year ago
I'm in total agreement. All that DST does is screw with everyone. How the hell did people manage BEFORE our "almighty time changers" got it into their head that changing our clocks would serve any purpose other than to mess us up. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And DST is like trying to fix a car engine that's already running smooth & functional with no problems. But heyyy, let's GIVE it a problem. Yeah, that's the ticket. Are "they" afraid NO DST would confuse us and cause armageddon?
Merrida100 1 year ago
I'm glad "Bullshit" has writers ;-)
Pyrolonn 1 year ago
Arizona doesn't observe DST
polyphemus30 2 years ago
@polyphemus30 Neither does Hawaii.
pennsays 2 years ago
I say we do away with timezones, do 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. That would keep the length of a second roughly the same, going from I think 86,400 a day to 100,000 per day.
Also, get rid of the fucking mile, inch, Farenheit and all that other shit that ends, begins and includes random numbers. We need metric measurements in units of ten. It will be much simpler that way.
garrettducat 2 years ago
dst is dumb stupid time. created by idiots that also gave us the drug war laws. My body runs on standard time. If people want to go to work an hour earlier let Them get up earlier. Stop punishing everyone with this stupid time changing.
hgeny 2 years ago
But I believe the second is measured by Cesium somehow.
I do know there is some science in the second, and changing it now is gonna fuck things up.
correasm91352 2 years ago
Daylight Savings fucks everything up.
If we can all agree to operate on the Greenwich Mean Time, itd make things easier...that way I'll know that at 8PM, the sun is above me in California.
I'd go to sleep at 6AM here in California.
For one thing, it'd make the National news easier to watch: "More at 11".
What the fuck does that mean; Eastern, Pacific, Central? Fuck!!!!!!!!!!
correasm91352 2 years ago
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B
That's the 12 digits
correasm91352 2 years ago
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,
10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,1A,1B
20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,2A,2B
etc.
correasm91352 2 years ago
Yeah, its the same as hexadecimal, minus a few "numbers."
garrettducat 2 years ago
The "anti-daylight savings movement?" Ok, Penn, I agree with you on this one, you are a little nuts....
shamrockbaby 2 years ago
Easily the best part of this video is the whole ten vs. twelve thing. it never occured to me that we use ten because we have ten fingers. I agree that 12 would be a better number, just as 360 degrees in a circle is far more divisible than 100 would be. Unfortunately, almost every culture in the world only has 9 digits, so it would be hard to switch to make 2 new digits for 10 and 11 and have 12 look like 10. very intriguing video overall.
itscrunk22 2 years ago
@itscrunk22 Did you drop out of school after 4th grade? I'm not being facetious, just really curious. How is it possible for someone with any real education not to know the reason we have a decimal system of numbers? And that in the decimal system there are 10 symbols (what you mistakenly call "digits"), not 9.
kossmikham 1 year ago
Wow... I think i actually learned something from that. o.o
Tatsuyoujo 2 years ago
whenever he claims not to do drugs some one should show his this video.
MrDanielMcc 2 years ago
It's an effect of the supreme arrogance of mankind. Instead of, say, getting up at 6 instead of 7, we change when 7 is.
It's honestly stupid, but the alternative is changing the work hours based on daylight hours, likely more difficult.
Boevis 2 years ago
move to Arizona
Paul2022 2 years ago
lol
DogsAreCoolRight 2 years ago
Nice ending: "daylight savings time is shit" lol
dumbfreddy 2 years ago
Penn seems to forget about a bunch of shit when making an argument. he thinks of the very situation but he never thinks of the reprecussions or anything like that I have seen him do this in a number of videos.
upplsuckimcool16 2 years ago
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I love DST. I think Penn smoked a spliff before filming this.
quantumleap7219 2 years ago
true that penn!
nicholi2212 2 years ago
The twelve system for clocks is something I thought of as well. My idea though was to switch to Base 12. In a base Twelve system, "10" = one Twelve and zero Ones. This isn't actually harder than base 10. It seems harder only because we aren't used to thinking that way. Instead of 9,10,11,12; base twelve would count up like 9,A,B,10. I use A and B only because we lack single digit numerals for 10 and 11. But using this system would mean midnight would be at 20:00, and hours would end at 0:50.
jmazup 2 years ago
I remember some guy proposed the 10 month calender back in the mid 90s. It was 5 months with 37 days and 5 months with 36 days. It was actually a good idea and it completely cut out daylight savings. But like all good proposals to government, it was shot down. Anyone remember who that was?
raistlin072 2 years ago
lol, Penn is a newfie.
livardo 2 years ago
Something similar to this was proposed about 10 years ago. Go to wikipedia and look up "Swatch Internet Time."
PopeInnocentXIV 2 years ago
too funny. I had a swatch that had the internet time feature. forgot all about it.
spudw2k 2 years ago
this is one of those times where i dont care but you do so i'll say hell yeah get rid of it.
anonazero 2 years ago
and besides, why call it daylight savings? no matter what you spend all the daylight you get in a day that same day. if only we could save daylight then we could spend it at a later date.
zombinekiller 2 years ago
i hate daylight savings time too.
jdh100000 2 years ago
i agree, but i didnt understand a word you said.
SailorsHideout 2 years ago
hahahah penn is such a genius! he reminds me of benjamin franklin! proposing things that seem so preposterous to most people, but are really good ideas if you really really think about. hes just got a deep brain.
but of course, they say that benjamin franklin was the one who postulated the idea of daylight savings. (if you believe everything you hear in national treasure)
quarkenzyme89 3 years ago
YES, ME TOO! Here we don´t call it savings-time, we call it summer-time. But due to the EU we now have to put up with that time alot longer than it should be, because there should be a stupid standard :P So it begins in march and stops somewhere in October.. A while before that people tend to be irritated, since it´s starting to get dark alot earlier, but we´re still supposed to run on summer-time.
Btw, time is an illusion. It´s all about movement and things deteriorating or growing.
Jentzi1 3 years ago
on the one hand I hate DST too but, on the other hand, if it wasn't for daylight saving I wouldn't have no savings at all!!!
cutbait 3 years ago
This is the most random PennSays that I've seen.
What a rant.
cobydick8 3 years ago
I agree with him 100%.
UndertakersFans 3 years ago
er... when will the day switch over? If it where to change at a specific time every day, then you might find that it changes in the middle of the "day" for your location. Time zones make sense, daylight savings time does not. Get rid of it completely. Arizona doesn't do daylight savings time and it's great. I wish everyone was as smart.
nthnlsmmrs 3 years ago
Arizona has a mail order PHD degree and NO OCEAN FRONT property... Plenty of sand though.... Ah, fuck Arizona! Let's get rid of LEAP YEAR while we're at it, in fact, the whole month of FEBRUARY should go! 28 days? 29 days? Fuck that! "Hey Mr. February, make up your mind or get the fuck off my calendar!" How about ONE BIG STATE? No more STATE LINES, COUNTY LINES... ONE BIG ASS STATE called AMERICA!
VimisiDigitalMedia 3 years ago
We could also get rid of people who post long negative comments that add no value to the conversation.
I'm sure that because some people do stupid stuff, it means that everything they do must be stupid. And ocean front property does a lot to increase the IQ ... because surfers are such intelligent people.
DS is crap. It's supposed to save us money on electricity and recent studies show that it actually increases energy use. FAIL!
nthnlsmmrs 3 years ago
You assume I'm a surfer? LOL Why not a fuckin marine biologist? Based on your comment about "surfing", I guess I need to be a juggling magician to have an IQ above 80, huh?
Daylight Savings, actually SAVES LIVES because of the dusk/dawn "glare effect" for drivers. Businesses that WASTE ENERGY because they're open past dusk (ie: extra lights, signage, etc.) now can power down when it's still light. Car battery life is less when you drive more with LIGHTS ON.
I like DS. Arizona still sucks!
VimisiDigitalMedia 3 years ago
Value? This conversation is one of VALUE? LOL This video is of VALUE? If you're a spokesperson for Arizona, I guess Arizona is FILLED WITH STUPID PEOPLE, huh? The only thing this video does is poke fun at DS, and the 30 minute "New Foundland" time zone.
DS isn't rocket science. Loosen up nthnlsmmrs... maybe the SUN in ARIZONA is drying out that grey gunk between your ears (called a brain).
VimisiDigitalMedia 3 years ago
lets discard all previous units of measure and invent a new base 12 system to avoid confusion
......?!
borderlinebuddhist 3 years ago
Number systems are arbitrary. It shouldn't technically be any harder to use one system over another so long as you've been taught that system all of your life. But I guess it depends on what you're talking about. I'm fine using the decimal system for problems in every day life but I can understand the frustration with time measurements, which I believe are based primarily on navigation and geometry.
crossofcrimson 3 years ago
base 12, base 2, base 16, base 8, any number system is just the same, you can use math for any form of it, which is cool.
almost all non-metric systems are purely born out of convenience in their original use. like a cup is a cup, a teaspoon is a teaspoon. and the numbers basically are fractions of each other, which is easier to do when doing stuff like cooking, which i'm sure was more popular
whoarentyou 3 years ago
Daylight savings is an arbitrary system of control implemented in the United States during World War I, primarily to save fuel by reducing the need to use artificial lighting. There is however, no solid evidence that it achieves that effect. Also, there were several counties in the US that protested until the federal government cracked down and forced the dissenting counties in line to comply.
LibertarianParty 3 years ago
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LibertarianParty 3 years ago
is it me or can't he say bullshit when he's not on TV?
d4m4s74 3 years ago
I don't think so. He's said it in a few other videos *Usually referencing to the show*, but I think he didn't use bullshit because of the context of the subject.
Bullshit by the show's definition are beliefs or systems that at least have SOME reason for people to buy into them, no matter how easily they can be debunked. Daylight Savings means nothing. It does nothing but set our clocks backwards and forwards 1 hour. There is nothing to gain or lose from it; its purpose is the sum of shit.
Suzaku000 3 years ago
DST really messes up people who work night shifts. I guess a global time would mess people up with the sun being out at midnight, but people near the poles have to deal with that sort of thing anyway. I'm still not sure about global time, but definitely get rid of Daylight Saving Time.
shawnmcghee1 3 years ago
Good ideas. I've always thought we should have a dodecimal system as well and one standard of time for the world.
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atypicalguy 3 years ago
where's glory
steelermia 3 years ago
I hate daylight savings time and everyone I know hates it.
wolfinside 3 years ago
I think we should have 13 months so each month would have exactly 4 weeks.
blizzard242 3 years ago 7
@blizzard242 NO!!!! LOL I need that five paychecks every three months. That comes in handy. Think about it. 13 months can be used in the credit card companies advantage.
cursivedragon 1 year ago
@cursivedragon An extra month of rent might not be such a good thing ether.
blizzard242 1 year ago
@blizzard242 I say do 13 months but the 13th month is free "no bills" month. Just imagine everyone enjoying life for a whole month!
cursivedragon 1 year ago
A funny paraphrased quote (supposedly from some native american when speaking about daylight savings time):
"Only a white man would cut the top off a blanket and sew it to the bottom and think he ends up with a longer blanket.".
DargonPacer 3 years ago 2
U.S. states are not required to use daylight savings time, but each state can choose individually to use it or not.
Arizona, for instance, does not use 'daylight savings time'.
I was just thinking, these days most digital clocks and almost all computers, automatically account for daylight savings time; I wonder if people in Arizona have to adjust their clocks anyway.
How bad would that suck?? hehe
DargonPacer 3 years ago
I'm from Canada and I've never had to deal with daylight savings time. I agree with you 100% about daylight savings time being shit.
chachee99 3 years ago
Daylight savings moves one hour from the early morning, while most people are still sleeping, to the evening. This allows workers, who usually have to go to work from a set time in the morning to a set time at night, to spend an extra hour outside taking advantage of the warmer weather during summer to play sports or with their children. How can that be a bad thing?
Western Australia doesn't have daylight savings. Move there is you hate it so much.
kaliblack 3 years ago
This is the first time I've seen Penn's claim to nuttiness for my own eyes.
Sure time of day is a concept, but it is a useful one based on principles of language. Noon is 12pm, approximately the middle of the day and lunch time. Morning is pre-noon and afternoon is...well...post-noon. All these words relate to specific times. Midnight has a direct relation to 12am. Could midnight be 4pm or 10am depending on where you are? No, because it doesn't make sense to the language we use.
kaliblack 3 years ago
Wow, I cannot believe there are people that think getting rid of time zones would be a good idea, after all the Y2Krazies died down. Let's say you DO somehow fix almost EVERY computer system in the world to deal with no time zones. Do you realize how much people would be screwed up by it? I live in EST which is -5hrs GM, over in Cali they are -8GM. Get rid of time zones in CA and now people have to BE at work at 1am, get off at around 10 and lunch is at 4AM.
VicShowZ9 3 years ago
Books, movies, ship logs, flight itineraries, wake-up services, reservations, anything that uses time as a marker would be SO SCREWED UP without time zones. With time zones as they are 3pm is pretty much the same almost everywhere in the world, in the past, and most likely in the future. You read in a book that something happened at midnight, and you can completely imagine the setting without having to memorize what midnight means in four hundred different places around the world.
VicShowZ9 3 years ago
Get rid of time zones? You think jet lag is bad now? Let's see, it is springtime you get on a plane in Los Angeles at 5am by your watch/cell phone/laptop, in the middle of the afternoon. You fly four hours to New York and land right before 9am, where normally where you live in San Diego it would just be getting dark and close to dinner time, but here in Manhattan people are having their afternoon coffee break and most kids still have an hour left of school.
VicShowZ9 3 years ago
rip a bong next time!
rolandbuntea 3 years ago
i know people disagree on everything but i appreciate penn giving his opinion, the absolute worst thing that happens is it breaks your mind out of its shell and forces you to think about things in a differemt light
miller434 3 years ago
Lets use the Star Trek system, I'll call you at stardate 8472.79
OgrimMetal 3 years ago
wow he's kind of all over the place on this one... penn, hahaha... put your argument together first... then make the video...
brakzorak86 3 years ago
It's like the t-shirt that says, "There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."
jlan12 3 years ago 6
I heard somewhere that they're working on eliminating DST. I would much rather have my hour in the afternoon back. I also agree with your idea to make it one time all around the world. That would be great. I also like your idea of creating a new number system just for time instead of using decimal and going up to 11 and 12. Most people can't wrap their head around that though, and the crazies and stupids would bring an abrupt end to the world if we tried to implement it.
jlan12 3 years ago
I love DLST. When you live in the north and the sun is hitting your eyes at 4am in June. That sucks.
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pennsays 3 years ago
I agree. I've been thinking this for years that daylight savings time and time zones were totally stupid and pointless and just confuse people and cause more problems than they solve. I miss TV shows because I get the times confused because of time zones, and people end up being late, or early for work, or school because of daylight savings. Everybody is connected all over the world by the internet now, so we should all be on the same time.
bracomadar 3 years ago
Hey neat, I just learned Obama wants to axe DST. Woo! He better not disappoint.
singedrac 3 years ago
At least he's not making jokes in base 13...
vivalajazz 3 years ago
1 second is based on the speed of light. Just though I'd throw that out there.
Russoft 3 years ago
THANK YOU i love you penn
awdawdawdwaawdaw 3 years ago
Wow this video really sucked balls Penn.
I normaly like your blogs (or vlogs or whatever), but this one was just confused gibberish. You didn't really finish your point. I guess you should plan your presentation and argumentation a little before you record it on video.
Or just say whatever you want, but then it will probably suck like this video.
gajxo 3 years ago
LMAO also divides in 6ths!! *shrug* not that useful.
Atrix78 3 years ago
The time change thing is COMPLETELY worthless. The reason days are devided into 24 hours is due in part to the people LONG long ago who decided that the year should be 365 days long. If the day weren't 24 hours long - the yearly cycle thing wouldn't work out properly. The entire concept of "time" is a REDICULOUS idea though when you think about it. Clocks cause stress!
VideoGuyNC 3 years ago
Yeah! Who decided that the earth would rotate on it axis 365.25 times every time it completes an orbit of the sun? lol
dieutombe 3 years ago
What the hell are you babbling about?
jedus1 3 years ago
Newfoundland is new a country - it's a Canadian Province.
killface76 3 years ago
*not
killface76 3 years ago
DLST is not for us to harmonize with nature.
It's for commercial use only.
Look up what the original word "calendar" means: it's the name for the schedule book for collecting taxes!
OurCelestialOrigins 3 years ago
When you fix time, can I have that 4:49 back?
weezel365 3 years ago
It is 1.10 am November 2 the First time around does this time even count? Im going to set my clock back in 50 minuets and an hour from now I might have to post this again.
BeerExpedition 3 years ago
Also (I guess I shouldn't have said "lastly" to begin my previous comment), your idea about having a dodecaphonic time-keeping system is unclear. There's 1440 minutes in every day, so would there be (1440/12) 120 minutes in every hour? Or would you redefine "minutes" so that there would be 12 of those in every hour - i.e., each minute would contain 600 seconds?
I think the current 24-hour system is fine.
UzbekUkuleleist 3 years ago
Lastly, I'll admit that having umpteen world time zones sucks - especially when there aren't always one-hour differences between successive time zones, like you mentioned - but living in North America, there aren't too many time zones to deal with, and I've always found it pretty easy. I knew when I was a kid that, for example, if a TV show came on at 3:00 Eastern, it was 1:00 Mountain; or 3:00 Pacific, it was 4:00 Mountain.
UzbekUkuleleist 3 years ago
Also, it sucks because, when the rest of the country changes to Daylight Savings Time (or back to standard), things like TV schedules, Greyhound bus schedules, etc., change one hour relative to Saskatchewan. So, if I want to take the night bus to visit my parents during DST, it's at 12:30. However, if I want to take the night bus during non-DST, it's at 1:30. It's easy to forget; I've almost messed up and showed up an hour late.
UzbekUkuleleist 3 years ago
I agree that Daylight Savings Time sucks. However, I live in Saskatchewan, which is the only Canadian province that doesn't use Daylight Savings Time, and it's an even bigger pain in the ass.
For one thing, I live only 30 minutes from Alberta, which does use DST; so if I'm going to Medicine Hat, the nearest city in Alberta, in the winter when Alberta is on standard time, I can leave town at 1:00 and get there at 12:55 or something.
UzbekUkuleleist 3 years ago
Daylight savings time is shit? Fuckin' eh, Penn!
airmanslice 3 years ago
i'll get behind it
JuggaloJohn 3 years ago
I agree with Penn. Finally!
I favor a day of 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds.
Seconds would be noticeably faster, minutes would be noticeably slower, but not crazy different. Hours would be looong.
It would be a lot easier to do conversions and math problems involving time.
One downside I've thought of is the problem we'd have in the many measurement units which are defined in part by time. All historical measurements would have to be converted, I would think.
MishaVargas 3 years ago
Excellent stuff, as usual. And good to see that your grandparents taught you the correct pronunciation of Newfoundland. You'd be surprised how few non-Newfs get it right.
azrikam 3 years ago
I will say like most things these days how we keep track of time has become more complicated than it needs to be & some simplification could possible help simplify matters. :) As for the idea of a having a single universal time that we all observe; well, we all already run on it we just don't agree to observe it the same way. As time progress and we move into space a single time will inevitably be adopted. Earth standard time perhaps but I am not hopeful that all the local times will disappear.
C13XIII 3 years ago
I thought it did save energy. In the war, Britain moved it 2 hours. I'm confused!
cinndave 3 years ago
Daylight savings time is stupid but so is one world time. If it's 1pm here and it's day time in Spain it's 1pm too but is it morning... night? Who knows, all i know is that it would be much more confusing than it is now.
altoid2k4 3 years ago
synced time zones would be awesome i could speak, whit my foreign co workers whit out have a calculator ready to convert all the times. you would make me happy ;)
pagangeek 3 years ago
I've heard 2 arguments for having DST:
- Farming culture.
Obsolete argument; harvesting is now done most efficiently in the middle of the night using machines.
- Electrical consumption.
this argument is arguably, NO LONGER RELEVANT.
I also hate DST and would love to see it abolished. No more falling back and springing forward. Archaic idea needs to be put to rest.
LasraelLarson 3 years ago
I'm from Iceland, and we use GMT. That's SPACE TIME, baby! All the images of NASA are on *Icelandic time*. No daylights saving, no bullshit, just pure space time.
helgihg 3 years ago 2
Newfoundland was a country from 1907 to 1949.
profstampede 3 years ago
Correction: only from 1907 to 1934 were they actually self-governing. But the point is, they had a national anthem, a currency, a prime minister, a national flag, and everything. I wonder if there is any sort of modern movement to restore Newfoundland's independence?
profstampede 3 years ago
I like the wrap up at the end...
Daylight savings time is...Shit. Haha.
bilokoo 3 years ago
There's a new episode of Bullshit.
sadistin1 3 years ago
Yup, day light savings time is crap.
You rule penn.
miamimanni 3 years ago
Don't agree with making one world time frame. It would be a huge international project to deploy in the first place.
Traveling would be confusing.
miamimanni 3 years ago
SO so true!!
SandieD11982 3 years ago
I didn't really understand this one.
MagicEH 3 years ago
antsy, but this is something to work on
MaryJaneGainey 3 years ago
DST sucks, no question. As for the rest of this video, meh.
BoozyBeggar 3 years ago
Wait a second, Penn. Did you just say that a little while ago you came off DST? Didn't George W. Bush help pass the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which changed it around a little bit? Now daylight savings time ends on the first Sunday in November (instead of the end of October).
So now in 2009, daylight time begins on March 8 and ends on November 1.
sirscutter 3 years ago
NEW INFORMATION: penn gets more flustered discussing daylight savings time than any other subject
Microwavish 3 years ago
I argue with my coworker about this a lot. We both wish they'd stop changing it, but he wishes they'd leave it on DS year-round, and I don't see how it makes a difference. He says he likes it on DS because he has more light in the evening to do outdoor activities. I tell him, "So what you have a problem with is your company's choice of when they want you to work, not what time your clock says." It's not important what your clock says; it's important where the SUN is when you get off work.
espaceman000 3 years ago
newfoundland, where ur grandparents come from... is a country:Slol
CorruptReaper 3 years ago
wtf .... I have no idea what the heck is talking about. What's wrong with dst other than Penn not liking it?
jhulsla 3 years ago
Why would even need a cycle at all? Couldn't we use computers to calculate everything and have a single number for time, no days, weeks, months or years and that could be used in the whole universe like the stardate. That way, it would be easy to keep track of historic dates and astronomical events as well.
Reproductivist 3 years ago
In the sci-fi novel "A Deepness in the Sky" a sublight space-faring merchant civilization does that. Due to relativistic effects, different ships experience relatively (ha) less or more subjective time, but each spaceship's timekeeping system uses only seconds. They commonly plan their schedules based on kSecs and mSecs, a thousand seconds and a million seconds respectively.
singedrac 3 years ago
I agree completely. Been a useless pain in the ass since I can rember.
ratuse 3 years ago
Swatch did your time a few years ago... They made digital clocks that had both timescales. Normal and decimal with ONE timezone.. but it wasn't sucessful
ProEnlightenment 3 years ago
Well im already workign in GMT
Looks like its started already ay
BillyBobsEel 3 years ago
Boring, Penn you can do better then this!
arubberball 3 years ago
Penn you should concern yourself with larger issues. Like where does that one godamned sock go? Is it the same place as the other glove?
zenguin13 3 years ago
You should petition the pope to change the way time is told. roflol
chimera15 3 years ago
No, I got it.... we come up with a new time and calendar called atheist time. We don't believe Jesus was anything special right, so why should we be forced to tell time by him. roflol
chimera15 3 years ago
The current time is: 10:09 in the year of 53 A.P.(after penn) roflol
chimera15 3 years ago
I hate Daylight Savings Time so much...I like the extra hour I'll get this weekend, but if it wasn't for the horrible hour I LOST in Spring I wouldn't need it in the first place, so let's just do away with the whole damn thing.
SirenaBlack 3 years ago
I don't know how it's down south but here in sweden daylight savings time is realy... saving daylight so no don't abolish it.
WilltheAtheist 3 years ago
Penn wants a New Timezone Order :P
IamBobX 3 years ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NO POLITICS!!!!!
soundrone 3 years ago
this is the stupidest concept
frankfathom 3 years ago
I do think that the idea that one only time for the world is a better idea. But the duodecimal thing wouldn't be necessary since 24 also divides the same way just as well. It's just not the lest common factor. But getting rid of AM and PM is already solved with military time, so we should just go by that.
EmperorEva0001 3 years ago
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duodecimal system
EmperorEva0001 3 years ago
Abolish daylight savings, but keep time zones.
Imagine the inefficiency created by changing the simple statement:
"I didn't get to sleep until 6 am"
to...
"I didn't get to sleep until 13 GMT, which means I stayed up late, because 13 GMT is a late time to get to sleep when you live in Los Angeles"
For those who can't quickly convert GMT to PST this method is less informative.
It also forces you to disclose your location to convey your meaning, which may be undesirable in certain situations.
schulwitz 3 years ago
Agreed.
Tying time to location would be cumbersome at best. Not to mention a lot more confusing, which completely abolishes the meaning of this argument.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
I'm sorry but I feel that you're reaching a little too far on this one Penn. I completely appreciate your opinions and you do bring up interesting points, but this time . . . your argument is a bit weak. The reason we have daylight savings and don't have one time is because time is relative. General relativity governs the universe we live in and time will actually be different in different places.
PaDuk35 3 years ago
What we should do is just get rid of the leap years. I think they're rather useless.
AlderDragon 3 years ago
If we do that than every four years our calendar would be off.
You need to go back to school.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
Easiest way to deal with the daylight savings BS is to just move to Arizona where we dont have to set the damn clock back or foward.
lloyd76oswald 3 years ago
daylight savings time is still important and relevant.
It lengthens the amount of daylight during the workday during the growing season. This enables farmers to get an extra hour of work in on the fields.
Although most of you buy you food from supermarket chains, it still comes from farms.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
Daylight savings time does not increase the number of hours of light by even one second.
Crosisborg 3 years ago
You're right, it just adjusts the time of light. It was for farmers back before we had powered equipment.
cougrrr 3 years ago
Of course not. That's not what I said.
IT just puts the daylight period one hour earlier so farmers could work during a normal workday.
Follow the logic.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
Why can't they adjust their workday to the seasons? Get up earlier one half of the year and later in the other half.
singedrac 3 years ago
Back in the day farmers sold their goods in markets... which other people with other jobs shopped for goods. They can't adjust their workday by the seasons to buy goods from the farmers.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
That's a good point but we're not "back in the day" anymore. I don't think Daylight Savings Time was always stupid. It served a useful purpose but is largely irrelevant now.
There's more World of Warcraft players in the US than farmers. We now have LIGHT BULBS. As someone elsewhere commented on this video, a great deal of harvesting is done with machinery at night these days. Yes, DST was useful in the era of small family farms and before the era of electric lighting.
But now?
singedrac 3 years ago
Your country may not be
"back in the day" anymore, but don't kid yourself there are many nations that still farm during the day and have little to no machinery, not to mention no light bulbs.
You live in a sheltered world my friend.
Americans, so typically convoluted about what is really going on in the world.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
What the hell are you rambling about? Penn's American. I'm American. We've been talking about policy in America. I don't care if other nations use DST or not. Let them do whatever's best for them. It's still an idiotic policy here in America.
singedrac 3 years ago
US being a northern hemisphere country benefits greatly from DST. Retailers, sporting goods makers, and other businesses benefit from extra afternoon sunlight, as it induces customers to shop and to participate in outdoor afternoon sports.For example, in 1984 Fortune magazine estimated that a seven-week extension of DST would yield an additional $30 million for 7-11 stores, and the National Golf Foundation estimated the extension would increase golf industry revenues $200 million to $300 million
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
There is no extra afternoon sunlight. They're only shifting the measurement back and forth an hour. DST is not required.
singedrac 3 years ago
IF Their is a 16 hour day of light, and normalls the sun gets up at 5am, then moving the clock ahead one hour allows more sun to be enjoyed during the day.
The logic is simple, and you inability to follow it ends this conversation.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
The "logic" is simple but idiotic. It only makes sense if for some silly reason you absolutely must get up the same hour every day all year. If you want "another hour" then GET UP AN HOUR EARLIER. That's even SIMPLER than changing the entire clock schedule. Wake up at a later time in winter and an earlier time in summer. With DST you already do this and all DST provides is the ILLUSION you wake up at the same hour all year round. It serves no useful purpose.
singedrac 3 years ago 2
How bout they just open their shops one hour later during the summer months and one hour earlier during the winter months while keeping the time the same all year round. Is it really that hard? If it benefits business, store owners will learn to do this on their own without the help of DST.
TheClassicalLiberal 3 years ago
If people want to save on electricity, they can just turn their lights off when it gets dark.
TheClassicalLiberal 3 years ago
I abhor Daylight's Savings time as well...It is pointless and mostly just a pain in the butt. However, apparently some farmer had wrote to his congressman to thank him for the extra hour of sunlight because his plants reall enjoyed it...So who am I to say...*rolls eyes*
Umbreona 3 years ago
Nothing to do with plants getting extra sunlight, they would anyway. But you can't work in a field in pitch black.
Clearly you've never been near a farm.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
Well he was not implying that, he honestly BELIEVED that the Government could make the day longer or shorter. As for Farms pffft, yeah right City Slicker. I used to live on one and next to two much larger ones.
Umbreona 3 years ago
My family has farmed for generations, no city slicker here.
BenjaminFranklin2u 3 years ago
lol, haha
travdog8 3 years ago
Eh, daylight savings time is a symptom. Penn, you have often been a champion already of the real cause. The fight against irrationality. Solve that, and the rest of the nonsense fall like dominoes.
nobagav 3 years ago
Trinidad does NOT use daylight savings time either...that's where my fiance' is from...she was very confused by the whole "spring ahead / fall back" concept...
O_o
soflabob 3 years ago
Daylight savings time is the government way of reminding us who's in control!
truxton1 3 years ago
I agree about daylight savings, and getting rid of timezones. The "dodeckafonic" way of breaking down time into smaller pieces may be a bit much for most folks.
As for am and pm, what would happen to "Good morning" vs "Good afternoon"? What would their be to confuse NPR listeners around mid day?
ragetony 3 years ago
ummm... wow, man. i usually find your vids very enlightening... this one, not so much. daylight savings time i really don't find to be a problem, apart from remembering when it is...
slackinatdabass 3 years ago
Vaudeville's amazing
rachelb77 3 years ago