The Case
Every year, millions of Americans lose sleep, change clocks, miss meetings, complain online, and then somehow agree to do it again.
It’s Just Time is a documentary-style investigation into one of America’s strangest shared rituals: Daylight Saving Time.
CLOCK ADJUSTMENT
CIVILIAN FATIGUE
CONTINUED PARTICIPATION
The Investigation
It’s Just Time follows a filmmaker’s increasingly serious investigation into Daylight Saving Time, exploring why it exists, why it keeps changing, and why everyone seems to accept it.
Part documentary, part comedy, and part public service confusion, the project unfolds through field reports, witness statements, expert testimony, and evidence gathered from America’s most overlooked ritual involving time.
FILE 01
REC ●
FIELD REPORTS
Short video dispatches from the front lines of clock confusion.
STATUS: ONGOING
FILE 02
TRANSCRIPT
WITNESS STATEMENTS
Interviews with people affected by the time change, whether they asked to be or not.
STATUS: COLLECTING TESTIMONY
FILE 03
PENDING
EXPERT TESTIMONY
Sleep, policy, history, and anyone willing to explain how this happened.
STATUS: PENDING CLARIFICATION
The Archive
ARCHIVE FILE: DST-001 / STATUS: UNRESOLVED
The clocks have been changing for generations. The explanations have not gotten clearer.
From wartime policy to public-service campaigns to modern confusion, Daylight Saving Time has left behind a trail of notices, diagrams, headlines, and unanswered questions.
ARCHIVE ITEM 01
Daylight saving postcard campaign. The lobbying phase begins.
ARCHIVE ITEM 04
Ohio Clock, U.S. Capitol, 1918. The first federal adjustment begins.
ARCHIVE ITEM 02
New York City, 7:35 a.m. Photographer unknown.
ARCHIVE ITEM 03
Domestic impact record. One hour of play reportedly lost.
EXHIBIT D / INTERACTIVE
Are you a participant?
Exhibits A through C established the pattern. Exhibit D establishes you.
Select your jurisdiction below.
Participation may vary by state, territory, municipality, and willingness to keep doing this.
Dispatches
FIELD LOG: ACTIVE / FIRST REPORT PENDING
Short field reports from the ongoing investigation into America’s most persistent clock-related ritual.
DISPATCH 001
PENDING ●
THE CLOCK IS IN THE ROOM
A first look at the investigation, recorded from an office where the clock is already becoming part of the case.
VIDEO FILE PENDING
00:00:20
STATUS: FIRST REPORT PENDING