Still dazed and confused from losing an hour of sleep Sunday morning due to daylight savings? Be careful out there, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver reports that in the week following the loss of sleep, hospitals report an uptick in vehicle and workplace accidents. Goddamn Farmer Brown, society crumbles for your goddamn cows! LWT dismisses that handed down chain of misinformation, too.
Thank God for daylight savings time so my kids got an extra hour of plowing our lands
— Tim (@Playing_Dad) March 9, 2015Nope. Earlier milking and egg scooping isn't the reason that daylight savings was implemented. No, it was started to lower electricity bills during the escalation of the first World War. And while knowing that bit of information is good to have—so you can correct your stupid coworkers today—it's not going to make you any more well rested.
