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Why Do We Have Daylight Saving Time?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Do You Think We're Going to Drop Daylight Saving?

Every 20 years we add an extra month to how long we use daylight saving. We just trick ourselves by moving the clock ahead, right? So it's really just a trick we're performing with the clocks. Even if we went to 12 months, we just went to daylight saving all the time,. All we'll have done is moved our time zone one zone to the east.

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