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.

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.

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.

Thanks UKposts recommendations for knowing the time of year

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

you put the picture of sydney upside down i get it

There was a thing called flextime we had in the '80s and 90s that you could work more or less and add to other days to make up the time you wanted off or early. You could come in an hour early and leave an hour early. We don't need daylight savings time. Leave the clocks alone.

Wow Just realized this video is 11 years old!! And still does an amazing job on educating people like me🤩 amazing. thankyou!

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

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

2:20 Thank you for being considerate; I can't understand Fahrenheit for the life of me. 4:00 Love how you put the Sydney Opera House upside down XD

Time to watch this again🍀

I didn't even notice how old this video was until I saw _that: 5:48

Christmas is NOT just as good a day as any to go surfing in Hawaii Its one of the best days to go

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

This video is actually timeless. I though this was a recently uploaded video, until I saw a comment say ‘it’s crazy this video is a decade old’, and that comment itself was a year old when writing this comment!

The clocks moved back yesterday and now this video has been recommended to me clearly the algorithm has become too powerful

*A man created this to catch more bugs!? WTF*

"42°C and 50°C for the metricly civilized"

I grew up in a town on the Utah/Arizona border, whether we observed daylight savings time changed depending on the year, and where we were more likely to have doctors and other appointments. I grew up talking about "Arizona time" and "Utah Time." I didn't grow up on a Reservation.

I share this video every year and every year nothing changes. Except the stupid clocks.

I like how you just nonchalantly placed an inverted photo of Sydney to represent Australia. 😂 3:57

Moral of the story: Arizona’s a mess

My state in Georgia is trying to stop doing Daylight savings time because alot of have complained about it. I know it's tough in Georgia but I know we're getting pass it. Hang in there Georgia!!!

I'd definitely have zero complaints if daylight saving was abolished in the UK. The way it has fallen meant last October when they went back I had to do a 13 hour night shift, then this past weekend when they went forward, I lost an hour's sleep prior to a 12 hour day shift! It certainly doesn't do much for my mental health when it falls like this!

I love how he flipped Sydney at 4:00 cos, as we all know, Australia is upside down. Lol

Honestly, more sunlight in the summer just seems like a weird thing to want. Where I live with DST, it's still daylight in the summer until well after 9 PM. In the winter, it was full dark by the time I got home from school. Neither of those things feels natural.

This video came in my feed just at the right time when I was getting frustrated over an international conference where all times are written in CDT but CDT wasn't implemented till last week. So it was just crazy trying to match the meeting timings to Indian time specially since some were hosted by Europe and they didn't seem to be changing their timezone before the end of the month. It's just totally crazy why we still stick to this changing of clocks.

This might be a good topic to revisit. This topic seems as alive or more alive than it was 12 years ago. I definitely recall complications around changing clocks, different clock times for scheduling etc. And when this vid was made, it's when I was unsure if various clocks were updating themselves correctly automatically. Nowadays, I'm always certain my personal devices have the correct time, regardless of what I do or where I am, and just checking the weather in another locale gives their local time too. The magic of scheduling software within our phones, laptops, etc, gives the true time of a scheduled event without any particularly difficult mental gymnastics. It just is what it is. New focuses: The push to make daylight savings time permanent, which to me is an abomination against natural time... To decide to permanently never have High Noon again, but High 11am. lol. Etc. Why not just make work schedules more flexible in general, and allow employers and employees to determine what schedules work best for them. And still, health and mental affects of switching clock time without traveling. It still messes me up when we "Fall Back" and I'm in northern North America at the time.... but I'd rather see DST abandoned and keep natural solar time than the other way around. Thanks for the content!! :D

If anyone else has experienced going to and returning from work in complete darkness during winter, they may ask, like me, why we don't just keep DST throughout the year or even move the clock forward for winter!

When CGP Grey tries to make you laugh: 0:21 "The universe is indifferent to your human concerns" 4:00 Sydney is upside down because it is below the equator

i was hoping you’d talk about arizona! i took a trip to see some canyons and such and the daylight saving confusion made us miss our tour 😂🥲

1:13 i'm chilean and the regions that are the farthest from the equator don't turn their clocks back (they stay on dst time all year long), it makes no sense. But a lot of stuff in chile makes no sense, i'm not surprised they didn't even get dst right

Sun comes up, it's morning. Sun goes down, it evening. In between is midday and midnight. Solved!

I like how the picture of the Sydney Opera House was upside-down XD

Indiana ignored it too for a long time as well and only adopted it when the rest of the world started considering dropping it. We didn't adopt it initially because roosters never cared what time you set the clock too The reasoning behind adopting it in the late 90s or 2000s was that it caused confusion when Chicago would change and we wouldn't. Somehow them fiddling with their clocks and getting confused over what time it was was somehow our problem.

As an Arizonan, I can say that you DEFINITELY do not want to go outside during summer, which by the way here, summer is like 4-5 months long, always being over 100 degrees F during that time.

This has become an annual tradition; watching this video every time we move forward or go back to where we came from.

DST Canceled in Brazil in 2019! I agree with this decision.

So glad to have you back, Speed. The charity match was incredibly wonderful. Huge W.

I love getting recommended these 10 year old Grey videos about issues we’re still talking about in the US. Rewatched the debt ceiling video last week.

Thanks for converting it to Degrees Celsius for the civilised world

I can tell Grey really wanted to keep this video unbiased, not persuading any point of view. Except honestly in the end it makes me think that there's NO reason to keep DST.

Maybe I just don't get it, but why don't we just... get up earlier if we want more sunlight? Why does the government have to force us to do it?

Mexico just abolished daylight saving time last October (2022) meaning we're "stuck" in winter time forever

as a resident of the American south, daylight savings baffles me because it takes away my afternoon sunlight in the fall, when it is nice to be outside and sunlight is already in short order

You can't make a rug longer by cutting an inch off one side then sewing it to the other. Same applies to daylight.

Thanks for this clear, comprehensive explanation.

Very informative, thanks. The Sydney Opera House visual gag was very amusing.

I don't care how much stress it saves. That glorious day in the fall where we get to live the same hour twice, and then have super long sleep that night is amazing.

"Digital outside is better than real outside" How true.

I live in Australia and work in a federal law jurisdiction, across all the states. The amount of time we spend quadruple checking we have entered the right time zones in our court calendars is ridiculous. The shift in daylight saving times means that we have to be aware of 5 different zones. Then, throw in the confusion of western Australia getting rid of DST. I was putting "AWDT" on calendars for WEEKS before remembering it didn't exist

2:27 if you had made this in 2005, you'd know Indiana was the third to not observe it either. They did that for a multitude of reasons, but since the state is also in Eastern and Central zones, they finally passed a bill in 2005 for the entire state to now observe it, not just the big cities.

I think that there's an even bigger problem behind this and it's with the actual time zones, where different countries in the same timezone can have huge differences between the time of sunrise and sunset. Our country is planning on ditching daylight savings. The problem is that we haven't settled on which time we're going to stick to, whether winter or summer time. Proponents of summer time argue that with winter time we'll be getting the first bits of daylight after 2am during summer and with summer time we would get more usable dailight after work during winter, which could reduce cases of depressions and even sucides. The problem is that summer time wouldn't correspond to the timezone we're in.

No light is saved. It shouldn’t be called that. Instead call it daylight shifting time. Or just abolish it.

I'm pretty sure I got a recommendation of this video every year since it came out 😂 time to watch it again

The memes and jokes in this video aged surprisingly well, nice job grey

Honestly in the UK I was under the impression that standard time ensured kids coming home from school didn't walk home in the dark

I recently been randomly binging CGP's content and seeing this one was posted 8 years ago makes me excited for the many hour's of quality informative entertainment i have left!

Love how Sidney is just flipped until it's put onto the chart

This guy really did his homework, & is a great editor

Not gonna lie, as an Arizonan, when I first watched this video years ago I learned how extensive daylight saving time was. I kind of knew that some people would switch their clocks around sometimes, and that was why I would have to change my clocks on some stuff that was hooked up to the internet, switching it between timezones. I just didn't realized that WE are the weird ones. Makes more sense now though, why when people online would be trying to schedule a meeting, ask me what timezone I'm in, and I would just have to say "I dunno, it changes".

A comprehensive account of DST. Thank you so much CGP Grey. Keep up the good work. 👏👏

Love how Sidney was upside-down, excellent job 👌

I love when old Grey videos pop into my recommended videos

No one really likes to get up an hour early just catch an extra hour of sunlight,just to have to bed early and do the same thing the next day. The body clock doesn't work that way. In fact it puts stress on the body. That is why you feel tired at the end of the day because you didn't get full rest period.

good insight, also I really dislike DST, all it does is mess with my sleep patterns

I live in a tropical country and it's basically summer all year round so I didn't even know this was an actual thing. Woah. I learned something new today.

Idk how busy he is but it’s sad that he rarely post anymore I really love his content

Here's a thought, let's not follow daylight savings time and instead everyone in the world should follow only one big standard time all year round. Problem solved.

Answer: We shouldn't change the clocks. The end.

The US Senate just passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. Time for all of us to regather and watch this video.

I live in Reno Nevada where the sunsets at 8 pm in the summer and at 4pm in the winter 🤦🏽‍♂️

It's interesting to note that we didn't even need standardized time zones until the industrial revolution (specifically, steam locomotives) but now technology has become so deeply intertwined in society that it's the complexity of dealing with DST in that technical world- changing the clocks of all those computer systems, for example- that is a main argument to get rid of DST.

Dear Canada, Get rid of DST in Alberta. I can’t speak for other provinces, but trust me. It’s not going to make a difference. We never get out anyway. Thank you, from a Canadian Citzen.

I will never forget about that time I told my friends over discord to hop onto gartic phone at 6 p.m. greenwich time (3 hours of difference with my country when they're not in summer). Greenwich is a city in the UK, and the UK uses daylight saving time, and so by the time I realized that, I had already been an hour late to the thing and everyone had already left.

So many retro memes! 😂

I only change my clock backwards whenever my break time is almost over.

I kinda wanted him to go on even further about how we SHOULD keep time. His voice is perfect I could listen to him for hours. Fantastic scriptwriting and VO work. Brilliant

All of Europe are here today

Today i freaked out like, how my country's time and my friend country's time changed by 1 hour, and then your video explained it clearly Thanks a lot sir 😄

I'm a huge advocate for abolishing daylight savings. Is it so hard to just change your schedule over the coarse of the day as opposed to screwing with everyone's perception of time?

Thank you! I never understood why the time changed. Whenever I asked someone I'd always get one of two responses, 'Because of the farmers" or "To make an extra hour of daylight." Both answered seemed nonsensical to me. I wish my government would just pick a time and stick with it. Changing it is annoying.

I honestly despise daylight savings time, especially since I only like going outside during

A few years ago there was a proposition on the ballot here in my state of California that easily passed which was intended to eliminate daylight savings time completely in the state of California. I don't think the law has officially gone into work yet, but it should any year now.

I love living in a place that is both metricly civilized and ignores DST completely. No changing the clocks, missing appointments or possibly being late (or worse, early) to work twice a year.

Am I the only one who found it hilarious when CGP said "Most of Australia follows DST, but not the Northern territory, Western, and Queensland" while showing an image of at least 60% of Australia NOT following DST? =p

Hey, I just noticed something. At 0:32 you mention the period of daylight saving time where you highlight May to October which is 6 out of the 12 months. However daylight saving time starts in March and ends in (the beginning of) November (in the US at least). Which would make this an eight month period.

once again it is daylight saving time and i’m sad about having lost an hour of sleep last night