How Changing Clocks Causes Problems and Why Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb for People and Software

Alright, it's that magical time of year again when we all pretend the Earth suddenly decided to spin faster and we have to adjust our lives accordingly. Twice a year we do this weird national ritual where millions of adults run around their houses pressing tiny buttons on appliances like we're trying to defuse a bomb in an action movie. Somewhere in my house right now there's a clock blinking 12:00 that's been doing that since the Clinton administration, and honestly I'm starting to respect its resistance to the system.I like to imagine how this would work in Star Trek. You'd hear Captain Picard on the bridge saying, "Computer, shift the entire Federation ahead by one hour," and Geordi would be in engineering yelling, "Captain, half the warp cores just desynchronized and the Vulcans are very annoyed." Even Rush warned us about this kind of nonsense. Time Stand Still. That was the advice. Just pick a time and leave it there. But no, we've decided as a society that twice a year we're all going to play temporal hopscotch for absolutely no good reason.Anyway, for those of you who've been watching these over the years, you know my tradition. Every spring and every fall I record a new intro complaining about daylight saving time, then I tack it onto the front of the previous video so the rant gets longer and longer like some kind of chronological Russian nesting doll of irritation. So if you've never seen this before, welcome aboard. And if you have, congratulations, you're about to watch the extended director's cut of "Richard Complains About Time."