Hey everyone not in the UK: here in the US, the time changes on March 9. It doesnât change in the UK until March 30. Just a reminder to check your local time vs. UTC time posted on Justin Guitar Zoom Events so you donât miss out being able to attend the live event.
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Yikes⌠That means Iâm going to have to share this video four times every year! 
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Now thatâs funny. I wondered where it all started.
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It started around the ww1 era, droped, picked up by states. Then federalized in the early 60s i belive. All but Hawaii and Arizona and one small protion of Indiana. It was thought to make better use of the extended daylight hours that the sun provids during the summer time. It was a practicality measure for the most part. The world work by clock time now, so in the summer thatâs wasted daylight in the morning, was the thought. If it is almost daylight at 5am and we get the farmers and factories workers up out of bed and started at a working by âclock timeâ itâs better than letting them just sleep that time away.
Farmers donât work on clock time. Daylight Savings Time never had anything to do with farmers. Their animals canât read clocks.
The funny thing is that so many people want to stop doing the time change, but they canât agree on which setting we should stay on. You want the sun coming up at 9 AM? Stay on DST, and thatâs what weâd get mid-winter. You want it coming up while youâre still asleep in the morning and setting in the evening when the weather is nice and you want to be doing things? Thatâs what will happen if we stay on Standard Time. Pick your poison.
Personally, I have no problem adjusting to the time change. Never have. But I believe that many people do.
Also bear in mind, itâs a Northern/Southern issue.
Countries in the tropics donât do daylight savings time. Why would they?
Cheers,
Keith
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Good point. Iâm in Minnesota; lots of difference in day length this far north. And Iâve visited Scotland a couple of times and saw how much more exaggerated it is there.
I am not trying to start any thing with anyone. 
Although I do understand farm animals can not read a time face. 
Since you did offered your personal view, I guess I will offer mine as well. I personally donât really care either. My phone and everything else, including, my own brain is smart enough it just does it on its own when its time is smart enough to know that here in Arizona we donât have to worry about it. Yeah tech and human neuro system ainât it something. I travel enough that I never have issues changing times going from one zone to another, so when I lived outside of AZ it was of not issue or concern.âSpring forward, fall backâ yeah so not too difficult. I will say I have always felt it a bit pretentious of mankind to just decide we would change the time to suit us like we have power over the planatary physics of the solar system and gravitation forces earth and sun. 
Besides, I work 12 and 16 hour shifts on my job, trauma happens at all hours of the day and night. You never know what is coming in the ER doors regardless of what time of year it is.
Try Alaska
It was an energy saving measure, is what we have always been taught. Syncing daylight hours with âliving hoursâ makes for less energy consumption. Or that was the idea at the time.
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Dont you just want to sream, 
At nearly 61, I STILL get reminders from MOTHER to change the clock. Come on people get with the correct millenium.
R
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Yeah I think that was always part of it too right, have people awake and doing stuff during daylight hours would save energy.
Oh thats interesting. yeah sometime I belive everything I have been taught is suspect.
I have to say that here in the UK, Iâd like us to switch to BST and then leave the clocks alone. It would mean darker mornings in winter but possibly some actual usable daylight for people in the afternoon. As it is, for most people who commute to work, they get to travel both directions in the dark, see no daylight at all and then wonder why theyâre unhealthy!
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Living near the equatorial center also lessens your chances of having Multiple Sclerosis as well, among other things.
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At the risk of being a buzz-kill, Wikipedia has a thorough, documented history of Daylight Saving Time. Itâs really quite fascinating! 
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