Daylight Saving Time: Why We Still Change Our Clocks

Every March you lose an hour of sleep. Every November you get it back — and lose your evenings. But who actually decided this, and why can't anyone stop it? In this video, we trace daylight saving time back 240 years: from Benjamin Franklin's satirical joke about candle wax, to a golf-obsessed Englishman on horseback, to two world wars, a failed 1974 experiment that sent kids to school in the dark, and the candy lobby that literally moved your clocks for Halloween — plus why Congress voted to kill it in 2026 and it STILL survived. You'll learn: • Why Benjamin Franklin never actually invented daylight saving time • How a golfer and a bug collector invented modern time • Why the clocks change at 2 a.m. (blame the railroads) • How candy companies moved the clocks for Halloween • Why the 1974 year-round experiment ended in tragedy • What the 308-117 House vote in July 2026 means for your clocks CHAPTERS 0:00 The Hook 0:51 Franklin's Joke 1:47 The Golfer 2:51 War Makes It Law 3:59 WWII and the Great Confusion 4:28 1966: Uniformity 5:06 The Failed Experiment 5:45 Candy, Golf, and Broken Promises 6:54 The Payoff Subscribe to Untold Origins for a new untold story every day. #UntoldOrigins #History #Explained #DaylightSavingTime #DidYouKnow