Love the second segment. You really covered all the important parts of daylight savings.

Surprised you actually made this video after almost 5 years

Way back in 2014, I made a video aobut the world's strangest time zones (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q71mhNSU0qnKnWw.html) and at the end of the video I posed the question: do we even need time zones? After nearly 5 years since the video upload, I decided to finally tackle this question. This was no easy task. In fact, this was one of my one challenging videos to date, and is quite a bit different to the kind of video I normally make. A video was a argumentative style, which relied a lot on opinion and conjecture, as opposed to clearly defined and established facts, was not easy. I start the video by trying to make the case for abolishing time zones and the potential upside of having one time for the entire globe, before then transitioning into making the case IN FAVOUR of the status quo, in which I suggest that a universal time zone may in fact cause more problems than it solves. Another reason this video is quite different from most, is the use of stock footage. Since this video isn't about history or geography, there were far fewer maps, graphs, timelines, etc. to use, and so I understand that this video contains a lot of 'filler' footage that isn't directly related to what I'm saying. This was necessary given the nature of the video. Anyway, this video took me quite a bit out of my comfort zone, but I think that's definitely a good thing. I always want to try new things and experiment, and if that means the odd video flops, it's a risk that I think is worth taking. I hope you guys did enjoy the video, and if not... well, I doubt I'll be making many more like this, so hopefully the next one will be more to your taste! Feel free to share your opinion on whether or not we need time zones! I'd love to hear them. Be sure to give some love to today's sponsor, Dashlane: www.dashlane.com/wonderwhy. Even just downloading the app is a huge help to my channel, and it's completely free, with no card details needed or anything. Thanks to everyone for watching and subscribing!

See you all on May 22nd, 2021 when WonderWhy posts his next video

Me, from England: "I woke up at 7 am today" My friend, from Australia: "Is that... is that bad?"

My man you’re running on your own time zone uploading like this

I don't see how the removing of timezones would eradicate the traffic jams seeing how you made the same argument that we'd just wake up the same time as before sun wise, we would still have our work hours as usual and people would still end their days at the same time. 8 hours is still 8 hours even if we wake up at 18:00 or 13:00 =P Although as a whole liked the video =D

I liked the second part of the video because it pointed out all the logical mistakes made in the first part.

This video honestly blew my mind.

"Do we need daylight savings?" "NO" excellent

My country used to have its own time zone until President Moon persuaded me to change it back to Japan time. Those were the days....

You totally changed my mind dude. I've been thinking about a universal time zone for a while and now I see that indeed, having the sun high at noon is far more important than the benefits you would gain

9:45 Myanmar doesn’t use imperial. It uses its own measurements system.

9:45 UK - Can't decide it wants to use the metric system or not so uses an awkward mix of both. 😂😂 This made my day and it is absolutely right.🤣🤣

Daylight Savings can go straight to hell

When wonderwhy uploads, a puppy is born.

For travel and coordinating meetings and events across timezones it might sound easier to just use one universal time, but in practice all this would do is require that people learn what arbitrary universal times people in other places sleep, eat, etc. Timezones actually function as a useful shorthand for this now by lining up the same components of the day with the same numbers, so we should just keep them. For instance, a tourist guidebook might now say "the time in Sydney is UTC+10." Easy, you can do the conversion in your head. Without timezones the book would have to say "In Sydney, people generally sleep between 09:00 and 17:00 and eat lunch between 01:00 and 04:00."

It should be noted that Myanmar doesn't use Imperial Units, but rather "Traditional" Units that happen to be close to Imperial. But the point still stands, they choose not to use Metric.

*tamezones* are pretty messed up..

Obligatory “He’s alive” comment

Finally, the video that you left "for another time" in the strangest time zones video. You have no idea how many times I've watched that one before today! :D

Cool video... Now imma go hibernate for another 6 or so months until the next one

Hi wonder why. How are you? .you uploaded midnight. So i watched when i woke up. Nice details. Awesome explanation. Thanks for your video..😀

I wish I could give you another 👍🏻 for the Daylight Savings Time answer.

Finally a new video, thank you for your amazing work/content! :)

“It’s not normal to get up at 1pm and sleep at 5am” laughs in Pandemic

a new wonderwhy video always makes my year

Wow, two uploads in two months. Amazing!!

Really well put video with interesting insight! Thank you

See you all in 6 months lads

I am against a universal time zone. but i do think that ending day light savings.

The 2nd segment of this video on DST is really good! Keep it up!

I live in the US state of Arizona. In that state, some parts of it (Navajo Nation) observes daylight savings time while the rest of the state does not.

I think this is the video that he said “that’s the topic for another time” on his older video, glad it followed through!

Lets say your on a plane from London to New York, what time would the plane keep once taking off, GMT or Eastern Standard Time

Have i died or time travelled. Because you just uploaded and now i feel complete

A great present, a new wonder why video!!

Absolutely love the video, and especially the second part about daylight saving time! I think having time zones makes a lot of sense (even if they are shifted by 1/2 an hour by the way) but UTC or an alternative should be more frequently used to coordinate inter-time zone activities.

6:32 you actually described my daily routine, are you kidding me lol

My favourite things about this video British description of the hybrid metic system and the day light saving conclusion.

I agree completely with your answer to the second question.

Been watching since probably just before 2014 love your vids I like that you’re uploading more

I always wondered why we have them including daylight savings. You answered all of my questions thank you.

7:04 I like how the new "9 to 5" in New Zealand is still 9 to 5, even if it's PM.

Finally. I was waiting for someone to answer this question.

We need them to confuse people

I know one sector that does not use local time zones-amateur radio communications on shortwave. Everything is in UTC there. And this gives me an idea for how to get the best of both worlds: Use two clocks; one set to local time, and the other set to UTC.

Great WonderWhy, now I'll have to wait another 2 years.

What about after 23:59? And the date?? If the clock ticks over to 00:00 in the middle of my day for me, when do I classify that the day has ended? It would make it very complicated to classify the beginning and end of business days right?

I was JUST thinking about this!!!!!

Was waiting years for this

Great to see a new upload from you. As for the videos topic. I think the way time zones work currently is only really an issue if you live near one a regularly cross it. An example would be living in the US and travelling a lot for work meaning crossing time zones between certain states or if you live close to the international date line and regularly communicate with the other side of it. For me living on the island of Ireland I can’t cross datelines without a boat or a plane so it always feels like a big deal anyway so I’m always prepared for it but I can imagine it being an annoyance at least if it’s within driving distance especially if within the same country.

love your videos

Yes! More WonderWhy!

That's a good point about there already being a universal time zone. It's also used n the context of software, servers are typically configured for UTC, and it's also often used for dates stored in databases, logfiles, etc.

In Finland, normal working hours are 8-4 and lunch is like 11am. Personally, I work one week morning shift 6am-2pm and one week evening shift 2pm-10pm. My lunch is 10:30am or 6pm in the evening shift.

So...What about the fixed 28days/13months calendar? Would it be more beneficial than the one in place?

Love part 2 of your video

You actually made the video! I remember you saying about it about 4 years ago!

good points- i guess i need to reign in my advocacy for the concept.

An 8:00 phone call is not just an 8:00 phone call when you're calling someone where it's dark and thus they are sleeping.

There is an error at the beginning of the video. The minute hands for all of the clocks are the same, even though New Delhi uses UTC+5:30.

The only video I've found so far that takes anything other than "but it would make it super easy to talk to the other side of the world" into account. 99% of people are not regularly talking to the other side of the world, and the way we do things right now is just a couple of notches away from stupid simple already. Good mention of "use UTC if you need it" too.

What would be the disadvantages of having time zones along longitude lines? Example - why is France +1 but UK gmt even though they are the same longitude?

EXCELLENT !!!

2:06 - Quite the contrary. If you're used to sleeping at 20​:00 and you travel to a place where they normally sleep at 07​:00, then you'd have to remember to adjust your alarm and stuff to that local time. Jet-lag would be amplified as your brain tries to adjust to the different system. 5:00 - Again, you may not have to change your clock, but you'd have to change the alarm and your habit. 6:20 - Exactly, you'd need to memorize the time of day for each region or look it up. 7:05 - Who says that in such a scenario that they'd use Greenwich as the base again? 🤨 9:03 - Like that thing kids do where on New Year's Eve they'll say something like "I'm going to the bathroom; see you next year". 9:25 - And you thought you got flack for using BCE. :-\ 9:28 - Have you ever even seen fireworks during the day? Nothing beats the washed-out, faded beauty of subdued fireworks. 9:43 - Canada's also yella. ¬_¬ - A _stone_ ? Really? 14lbs units? Seriously? 🤨 What the actual hell Britain‽ ¬_¬ 9:50 - Just tell them it's the "people's timezone". 😉

9:44 you forgot to paint Canada in yellow too

And thus, WonderWhy returns to his cave where he works away at his next video

good luck fixing the time in argentina, it is a problem in itself. it was tryed to do DST and it were even worst, so i was rollout to before

He's alive!

In Arizona we don't use daylight savings time.

Nice video 👍👍👍

Please make more videos on countries, geography and many more topics

This channel needs way more views and subs

Dinner at 10-11pm is also popular in India...dinner time usually starts around 9 to 9.30 in many areas too

I could've sworn that the Spanish siesta wasn't *only* about taking a nap. When I studied there, my professors told me the siesta was more about running errands. Perhaps not going to the bank, since I remember banks being closed from 2-4, but more like grocery shopping. Also, my family in France thinks eating dinner at 6 is insane. They always eat dinner at 8 or 9.

He damn near nailed my radio schedule lol Up at noon work at 2 home at 11 bead at 5

6:35 Some programmers wanna have a chat with you :P

In Russia daylight saving time is abolished. One of the rare cases that Russian government issued a really useful law:D the other one - is a ban on homeopathy

i just realized that i'm going to have to get used to dst next year for the first time in my life when i move.

The only sane KZfaq video on this topic I've found yet.

This is the video I subscribed for... 5 years ago

Thank you, captions.

Will that mean we wont be able to say its 5 o'clock somewhere any more?

Hi WonderWhy I love your videos

Ok, but why not both? Like we could become more conscious as a society of UTC and use it to schedule meetings with foreigners or individuals across the country of the country is wide, and we could use local time zones for when they’re best.

omg i was just watching the first part finally

I feel like if this happened, many people would stop living by the sun, with this pattern being most prevalent where there’s not much natural sunlight in the first place. This could also happen to people who live north of the Arctic Circle or in Antarctica.

1:23 I flipped my phone at the exact time frame of that haha.

Very good vid once again

New York: We need to have an importing business call at 8pm Italy: That is way too early! New York: That's early? How early? Italy: it's at 8pm

A good idea is to get in the habit of getting to know utc around your local time and using that when arranging a time across time zones. Thats how the military to it.

I can see both sides, and have a solution for the good point you made about travel/communications with those outside of your current time zone. Right now, you'd generally have to look up, or memorize time differences, and without time zones, we could just have those same conversion tables, but base them on either sunrise or "high noon" (when the sun is at it's apex for the day) at that location, either would be the same effort as now, would give you an idea if it is ok to call or what time to get up when traveling, and would still add the benefit of no longer having any time zone confusion. I don't know how many people would actually benefit, but working for an international company, based on the US west coast and working out of a building on the US east coast, I would LOVE IT if everything was the same time! So much time zone confusion since so many people forget or can't be bothered to include the time zone when scheduling times, and could easily be talking about EST, PST or UTC. It's maddening.

your videos are fantastic

2014 Wonder: (posts a video about timezones that convinces people that they’re a good idea, intentionally or not). 2019 Wonder: _Are_ timezones a bad idea?

Hong Kong also uses a mix of metric, British and local Sinitic units so it's not all metric either.

i cant believe he uploaded twice in 6 months, its not possible

an absolutely wonderful channel.

Spain eating late is a byproduct of them being on UTC+1 when much of the country should be on UTC-1, meaning that many people are essentially on double (or triple, during the summer) daylight savings time.

Appreciate the shade given to the UK being officially metric except for road signs, bridge heights, and in personal usage for heights of people. (Other examples may exist, these are just some I can recall off hand)