Topic Talk | Daylight Savings Time

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss Daylight Savings Time in the United States. Transcript: 00:00:02 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going to do a topic talk and the topic is daylight savings time in America. So. So. So what is daylight savings time? 00:00:23 Xochitl Jack, my understanding is that not every country does daylight savings time. But here in America we do it and it's where every spring the time jumps forward an hour and every fall the time goes back an hour and it was intentionally meant to help conserve energy. It's been shown that it doesn't. 00:00:44 Xochitl Help conserve energy, but what it does simply is that. 00:00:48 발표자 Right. 00:00:50 Xochitl It kind of makes the days shorter in the winter and the days even longer in the summer, and this is a natural trend anyway, but it just kind of exacerbates that. So here in the US around 4:30 or five in the Midwest in the winter, you'll see the sun going down. 00:01:07 Jack Yes. 00:01:07 Xochitl And it's summer. Some may not go down until 9:00 PM, basically almost 9:00 PM so. 00:01:15 Jack Yeah, I mean I I think the my understanding of it was it's it's a very old practice and it was meant to give farmers a little extra. 00:01:15 Xochitl That's kind of. 00:01:29 Jack Light, I suppose in the as they worked on the farm because we were mostly in agricultural country back then. 00:01:39 Jack UM. 00:01:41 Jack And so am I. Does that make sense to you? Is that is that something that it has to do with? 00:01:48 Xochitl I think that it could definitely. I I do know that it was also. 00:01:54 Xochitl Related to energy conservation. 00:01:56 Jack OK. 00:01:57 Xochitl So I think it's supposed to be like. 00:02:01 Xochitl And it was, I think it was kind of supposed to encourage us to. 00:02:07 Xochitl I don't know. I don't. 00:02:08 Xochitl Know how that aspect is supposed to work? I'll be real, but. 00:02:11 Jack Well, it it it, it gives you more natural light so that you didn't need to burn oil. 00:02:17 Jack In the evenings, as as often as as much in the in the summer months or in the warmer months. 00:02:25 Xochitl Yeah, I kind of thought that. But in the winter, it really makes everything like more depressing. 00:02:30 Jack Yeah, I know, I know. 00:02:33 Xochitl That's why it's summer. It's like you don't have any daylight. You get, like the sun doesn't start coming out. I guess it it comes up, but you're like in school or doing whatever and it's like barely out and you're in school or at work all day. And when you get off, this one's already gone. 00:02:53 Xochitl Basically, so Midwest is anyway. 00:02:54 Jack Right. 00:02:57 Jack Yeah. I what? What are your feelings about my feelings of daylight savings time? Daylight savings time is that it's just it's an old practice that doesn't really belong anymore. What it does is really just confuses people. People are just late for work or early for work accidentally the day. 00:03:09 Xochitl Yes. 00:03:17 Jack After because they. 00:03:19 Xochitl Yeah, my to have my aunt. She was early. 00:03:21 Jack Yeah, you show up an hour early and you're like, where is everybody? And then you go like, ohh daylight savings time. It's only 8:00. It's not 9:00. Ohh. OK. 00:03:31 Jack OK. Or you're late an hour because you're like ohh I I thought it was 9:00, but it's actually 10:00 now. 00:03:32 Xochitl Yeah. And then close. 00:03:39 Xochitl Yeah. For my generation, it doesn't happen so much because our technology, which is what we use to tell time, automatically switches. 00:03:47 발표자 That's true. 00:03:47 Xochitl But so I don't even know. Like I don't even notice, especially I don't. I'm still I'm. I work as a freelancer, so I don't even really notice anymore. But with my aunt, it definitely affected her. And then it's like Gen. X and boomers and like, slightly older generations that still use. 00:04:04 Xochitl Use