John Oliver explains where daylight saving comes from and why it's totally irrelevant today
We all woke up the last couple of mornings an hour early thanks to daylight saving time. But you probably didn't curse the heavens until you started the work week on Monday and likely asked yourself in a dazed state, "How is this still a thing?"
Thanks to John Oliver, we now know why.
During last night's episode of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver," his hilarious segment "How is this still a thing?" examined daylight saving and this is what we learned.
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Many people grew up being told daylight saving is to help the farm industry, but as the segment points out, "it has nothing to do with farmers."
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The segment then showed clips of man-on-the-street interviews with people calling daylight saving ridiculous," "a pain in the ass," and "complete nonsense."
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