Daylight Saving Time Was a Social Experiment

Daylight Saving was originally a social experiment created by professors to see if college students would be more productive if they had another hour to work.

It might be the most spectacular backfire in history; instead of seeing it as an academic advantage, students saw it as an opportunity to drink non-alcoholic beverages in excess, sleep, or watch funny cat videos on YouTube,

In the hopes that students would eventually catch on to their extra hour, they continued the experiment until an arbitrary date, in which they eventually gave up. To hide their shame, they gave Daylight Saving its name, made the arbitrary time official-sounding (2nd Sunday of March), reversed the start and end time, and then chastised students for not paying attention to trends in clock-changes.