Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous 

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Living is dangerous. You pose the risk of dying any minute.

In the other side, there’s China that uses a _single_ time zone for the _entire country_ , causing the westernmost cities to literally get sunrise at like 9 am

"Timezone Leftist" is my new favourite term

I used to work graveyard, I can personally attest that waking up and working before the sun is bad for your mental and physical health. Now I wake up around 5:30 which is still before daylight but nowhere near as bad as waking up at midnight

Meanwhile, in Canada. Everyone wakes up when it's dark and goes to bed when it's dark

This could be easily fixed if works and schools started at a humanly hour like 9, instead of 7.

I empathize with people stuck in Lubbock. Someone very close to me was trapped there a few years for work. He works in a very niche field, where jobs are few and far between. He's used to moving around and adjusting, but Lubbock was a unique level of hell. Recently, he actually transitioned to a different career path just to get out of there. And he's not alone: I'm not convinced he's met _anyone_ who legitimately *wants* to live there. Like him, his colleagues are stuck because of work and aching to pick up and leave as soon as they find another job opportunity in their field. It is not my intention to mock the people in or from Lubbock, and if you like it there, I am happy for you. I detest snobs who think there's nothing worthwhile outside of NYC or LA, and think everyone in 'flyover states' wants to live and be like them. I certainly don't claim my small rural hometown is paradise, I poke fun at it lovingly; and faced years of teasing because of my accent. After a lifetime of bouncing from state to state, I can usually find the charms and hidden gems in different cities. Lubbock has been the sole exception.

Living on the extreme western side, (left side), of the Eastern time zone means we have sunlight until 9:00pm through the summer. It's great for getting outside and doing stuff after work.

When you live above the arctic circle and the sun doesn't rise in the winter and doesn't set in the summer :')

If you're living on the "right" side of a time zone, the sun waves you good morning at freaking 4 AM in the summer.

I love how HaI just immediately assumes everyone is waking up at exactly the same time as sunrise on the easter edge of their timezones, not accounting for shifts, different working hours, or the fact people have to shower, eat breakfast, and commute before they begin work.

Doesn't matter whether you are to the left or the right of a timezone, most of the people I know would wake up prior to sunrise no matter the timezone due to work. It'd be kinda crazy to me to be able to get up at or after sunrise as I've simply not done it. Be it waking up for school as a kid or waking up for work as an adult, I've always rose before the sun.

“The sun” Me: a high schooler whose room is in the basement *laughs in forever darkness*

Petition to change “Circadian Rhythm” to “Internal Caveman Clock” on all official documents. If Spaghettification is a thing, then there’s no reason why we can’t have more dumb names for things

Fun fact, the map shown at 3:43 is only accurate for half the year. The Canadian province of Saskatchewan (the rectangle jutting out on the western edge of the central time zone in Canada) never changes time at daylight savings time, meaning that for half of the year it is on Central time and half the year it is on Mountain time. Or as regionally referred, it always remains on "Saskatchewan time".

If you search "solar time vs local time" there's a cool map with colors to show which places have the worst time zones

Schools: I'mma pretend I didn't see that

This video: not having a sleep schedule matching with the day cycle is really unhealthy. Me who goes to sleep at 5am and wakes up at 2pm: sweats profusely

You see, in the modern age. There's another problem living on the very edge of a time zone. I used to live in a small town in Indiana, about 1 mile east of the Indiana/Illinois state line. Illinois is on CST, and Indiana is on EST (for the most part). I worked in a small little brick and mortar with people from both time zones. The big issue though, was cellphones. See, this is rural area I'm talking about. And sometimes things happen. So if the cell tower closest to you on the Indiana side of the Wabash River decides to go on the fritz phones like to pick the tower *on the other side* of the river in Illinois..those towers, are on CST. If you have your phone set to auto-sync the time, and you have an alarm set for 8 AM in your phone and this happens...well...now you're an hour late for work and there's nothing you can do about it. Gotta love technology.

I highly disagree with this video, living in Chicago on the east edge of the central time zone literally brings out "seasonal depression" because in winter it is pitch black at 4:30pm while most people are still working leaving absolutely 0 minutes of daylight to enjoy once off work whereas if it was dark in the morning, nobody cares because you will get to enjoy the daylight after work

People: The sun is rising. Time to get up! Me, living in Finland: *Confused screaming*

Me, living in the arctic during the winter: "lol what's sunlight?"

Time zones (unlike daylight savings) actually save lives. Trains commonly would wreck and kill all the passengers because different towns had different times before standard time was established.

1 what about summer/winter? In winter you get up in the dark anyway. In sunner sun rises before you get up anyway. 2. It mostly depends on when you start your workday. Not a big deal when you start at 9 or 10, or especially 11 (lucky ones!)

Mom: you need to wake up and get ready for school. Me: sorry mom,my internal cavemen clock says no.

This is why they invented "sun-lamp-alarm" A lamp that acts like the sun and gradually gets stronger at same time it wakes you up.

I just recently thought about how we need to reform our time zones to be more linear (and no daylight savings). Apparently, we also need to create more (maybe by 15 or 30 minute increments instead of just an hour).

Could this actually be the reason why I’m always tired? My city is like on the line of where the time zone should end but instead moves out of the way for the rest of my country.

Northern Norway: * Cries in no sunrise for 3 months *

It was as if a million west michiganders cried out in pain.

This is why I HATED waking up for school, and the traffic going to school only made it worse. Now that I'm in uni I really wonder how I survived

as if living in Lubbock wasnt already bad enough lmao. P.S you can see my apartment roof @3:25 lol small world

"How many times will you use the same caveman stock footage in a single video?" Sam: YES

Malaysian here, we have the same timezone with the Philippines (GMT+8) and yet we’re balls deep inside of GMT+7

Welcome to northern canada, europe and asia. The sun doesn't go down enough at summer leading to sleeplessness. The sun then overcompensates by not rising/rising too little at wintertime leading to you being tired at work because the 4 hoursnof sunlight were spent at the office and you get to go to work in the dark and return in the dark.

funny i got this in my recommendeds right when i moved back to college! it's a 5-hour drive away and our sunrises and sunsets are documented as only being 10 minutes apart but it felt really dark when i woke up this morning

HAI: Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous Everyone who currently lives on the right side: *Oh no! Anyway...*

As someone who lives in Lubbock, everything he said is true

And that doesn't even include the insane idea of "daylight saving time" which essentially shifts everyone even farther west by one additional hour.

I'm really starting to love this channel.

Cries in Spaniard, which isn’t just at the left of the timezone, it’s in the wrong timezone entirely!

Cries in going to school while its still dark and coming back when the sun sets

I am from Jordan (Middle Eastern country) and spent 5 years in Florida (US state). One of the things I noticed right after moving to Florida was that sun rises and sets later, and in winter, we have sometimes to wake up in the dark! Last year in Jordan, the decided to stay on daylight savings time during winter, which meant that we became like many places in the US: less sunshine in the morning, more in the evening. Why did Jordan followed the US? Is having to wake up in the dark something cool countries do?!

I live on the left side of a time zone, but I also work rotating shifts. My circadian rhythms are all over the place.

me watching this while having a disastrous sleeping schedule: interesting...

“We’re designed to wake up with the sun” Me: *laughs in night owl*

I live on the very left end of the Eastern Time Zone and it's actually kind of nice. In winter the sun sets at around 5:45PM, but just 10 or so miles to my west, the people in Illinois have to deal with the sun going down at 4:45. Kids there in bigger cities might not even get home for school before dark. I would not be able to live like that.

This timezone split happens in Australia. In the northern parts you get up with the sun all year round (for the most part), and for the more southern parts, for example Melbourne you get up in the dark most of the year - for a wake up time of 7.30am. My personal experience is that an early rising sun can greatly impact the start of your day, especially since it helps warm the day up earlier!

Geography teachers would hate you saying “the left side“

“you’ll still be living in Lubbock, Texas” lmao

so I live in Western GA, this actually makes a lot of since now seeing that my timezone is best fit for New England and Hispaniola

Yes although people on the west of the time zone have a later sunrise, consider that us eastern time zone people have to deal with the sun setting increadibly early, especially in the winter. I'm from Boston and we can get sunsets as early as 4 sometimes in December

The most honest part of this video is that it does indeed suck to live in Lubbock, Texas

Also, in Spain we've got the central european time zone, yet our "sun time" is the same as in the UK. The sun seems wack when you see the clock

This one hits me where I used to live, which is to say, Pensacola. Lived there for 9 years and hated more minutes of it than I liked. I, at one point worked a job that started at 8am and ended at 6 pm. During the winter, the sun would go down around 4:30 pm. And while I generally enjoy night life, that's a little extreme for me.

1:50 "separated by clean, family-friendly one-hour increments" *stares in Nepalese*

Oh boy here comes another episode of 'SAM'S BEST JOKES FOR LESS THAN 10 MINUTES BECAUSE THEY'RE THE BEST!!!!'

"Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous" Xinjiang: Beijing: HEHYYYEAAHHH BWOY

Sun comes up early enough on the far left side of EDT. I can literally see Illinois and CDT right now

There's a very interesting place to be on the west side of upper peninsula of Michigan I live further west than Chicago but am still in the eastern time zone and our sun schedule is incredibly odd

I have lived on both "sides" of a time zone, and I actually like living on the western part of a time zone better. On the eastern edge, it's so depressing that it gets dark before the end of a 9-5 workday.

"69 minutes, 420 minutes" Nice.

I actually feel like i missed half the day already if i wake up and its even slightly light out.

I have "soical jet lag" (or feel like it) but I live on basically the right side of my timezone

This is not good, I live in Spain, which is in Germany's time zone. I couldn't be further left of my time zone!

I live in Pensacola and I was honored to hear Sam make fun of my town. Thank you, Sam.

What about when you live on the right side of a timezone and get up at 4 in the morning for work?

Known this for a while. Indiana only JUST stopped daylight savings but we're still as west as you can get in EST

As a Texan................I'm not offended by that Lubbock joke that was amazing

Here in the Philippines we wake up at Noon and sleep at midnight The sunrise is 5-6 ish am and sunset is 5-6pm ish

Half as interesting: Now towns are separated by clean, family friendly hour increments. Newfoundland: Laughs every 1/2 hour!

Me, who lives on the the left side if EST and also is constantly tired and cant concentrate and also have minor anger issues: *hmm...*

You know where else is on the left side of a time zone? Wendover, UT.

Part of my problem is that I live on the right side of the Central Time Zone, but work in the left side of the Eastern Time Zone. Not only do I have to get up early, my "smart" phone gets confused by the going back and forth and sometimes thinks it is in the wrong time zone, waking me up an extra hour earlier. Also, many people, businesses, and local governments that are officially in the Central Time Zone operate on Eastern Time because the bigger city is on Eastern Time. Some people still use fast time and slow time to describe which zone they are using.

And here comes: SUMMER TIME! It makes you live out of timezone, past its left border. But only for like half of the year. For the other year you live in your timezone. I think it's a part of the reason why now I fall asleep when sun rises. My Internal Caveman Clock™ got crazy because of of these time changes.

*someone* woke up on the wrong side of the time zone.

Geographers: west HAI: L E F T

In Michigan, we have the worst of both worlds. We are almost touching the left time zone border, and the fact that it’s so far north makes it dark all the time

The jokes about Lubbock had me dying XD good stuff man

Plot twist: HAI lives in Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock: It sucks so much to be on the left on the timezone Urumqi, China: That's cute.

I wasn’t expecting to see stock footage of Jack Howard having a heart attack in this video, but I’m glad I did

YES! I 100% have time for the Lubbock, TX roasts

Idk how anyone can have a "sleep schedule". I just wake up depending on the plan of the day.... Tried it, and waking up at the same time every day makes me depressed.

New game: Take a shot every time Sam uses the caveman clock stock footage.

This is becoming relevant again with the current discussions about ending DST.

I just wake up when I feel like it. but no matter how much sleep I get, it NEVER recharges me, I'm allways bloody exhausted when I wake up.

3:34 this is the best joke on this damn channel. Lubbock is also a joke.

When you realize you live on the left side of the timezone

“Regular bathing” that was common among even peasant classes during the medieval era, you can’t make a historical joke unless it’s accurate otherwise it isn’t funny

As someone who works on-call for hardware troubleshooting who lives in California, it's rough when people from Eastern time call at 8AM their time which is 5AM my time

Let's be honest. Your boss is the one killing you. He is the reason you have to wake up while it's still dark

“Clean, uniform hour increments” Newfoundland: am I a joke to you?

HAI going savage on Lubbock, TX!

I love Lubbock, that hurt a little but it's true. I remember the first time I spent the summer in Lubbock and even the difference in time from my hometown in East Texas to Lubbock...not getting dark till after 10 o'clock really threw me for a loop.

Me at 5:30am watching this: ooohh, so thats why I'm always tired

Totally believe this! I’m always telling my mom how much easier things are at college, because at college I’m on the right side of the neighboring timezone.

the amount of love Lubbock is getting in this video

3:06 what’s wrong with Lubbock Texas and Pensacola they both have actully better names then a lot of other city’s and towns across America.