- Hello world. It's me, Jesse.
We need to talk for a minute about Daylight Savings Time
and why it's pointless.
First off, if you're watching this video in Hawaii,
or Arizona, or anywhere over here,
you've probably never said to yourself,
"Why do I feel this crippling depression?
"Oh right, the sun is setting and it's 4PM."
Since that's pretty much all Daylight Savings
does at this point, then how did it get started?
Daylight Savings Time as we know it,
or DST, was apparently invented by
some dude named George Vernon Hudson.
He fought for it because, and I'm not joking,
he wanted an extra hour in the summer
to catch bugs.
To catch bugs!
Satoshi Tajiri loved catching bugs.
You know what he invented?
Pokemon.
Listen, GV, I don't know what kind of sick bug fetish
you had, but instead of just waking up
an hour early to ask fireflies out on dates,
you had to make us all question the concept of time itself.
Not to mention, it's basically saying to the sun,
hey, thanks for being an everlasting ball of energy
that supports all living things,
but screw you, sun, I want to chase butterflies longer!
Most of us blame the farmers and think
that they invented DST in order to do
farmer stuff just a little bit early.
In fact, farmers were the only organized group
who were against it for a long time.
The main reason why it's still around
is that it was meant to save energy.
But there's no hard evidence proving
that it saves anything.
One study even showed that around the time
of spring Daylight Savings Time,
suicides and heart attacks spike.
And some studies even suggest that
it wastes more energy than it saves.
Even Vladimir Putin abolished it in 2014.
If you're in a place where you're questioning
whether Putin is cool or not, you're in trouble.
Oh, and I guess it's called Daylight Saving Time,
not savings, the fact that no one has ever
noticed the mispronunciation is proof that no one cares.
And they never will.
So on behalf of all people everywhere
who have had their sleep ruined
or had to reset a clock they didn't know how to reset,
let's destroy Daylight Savings Time.
How we would do this, I'm not 100% sure.
Maybe destroy all the watches you see.
Deface a photo of Big Ben?
Yell at a clock?
I don't know, I just like, I was excited about the first
part of this, and I don't really have a lot of answers.
I should have, I should have come up with like ideas
that we could have done, or like solutions to this.
I didn't, I didn't Google this as much as I thought
I was gonna need to.
Uh.