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

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Uploaded by on Jan 9, 2012

Behold the wonders of time. Leave us more questions! :D

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  • 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.

  • @IntellectualsNY that is mean to say.

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

    good for kids walking to school!

  • 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)

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

  • 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 :)

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

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

  • 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

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

  • 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)

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