We are yet to set our clocks forward and welcome summer properly for this year, but over in the US, that process has already taken place. 

They tend to do it earlier than us every year, and while longer days in the summer are great and all, sometimes we do think that the idea is a little bit outdated. Mainly we feel like that when the change means we lose an hour.

Anyway, with the annoying noise of the alarm forcing millions of Americans to get up an hour earlier this week, John Oliver decided to ask why is Daylight Savings Time still a thing, and the answer might actually surprise you.