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🗓️ 18 March 2019
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0:00.0 | Get up in the morning, sleeping for a rest. |
0:04.4 | So that every mouth can be fed. |
0:08.7 | Call me, interalizer. |
0:15.4 | Welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service, |
0:18.0 | the program that eats, breeds and sleeps statistics. |
0:21.0 | I'm Robert Cough, and this month, |
0:22.9 | something will take an hour of my precious sleep. |
0:25.6 | But what would do that? |
0:28.2 | It's daylight saving time. |
0:32.3 | Daylight saving time moves clocks forward an hour in spring |
0:35.3 | or back in the autumn to increase the amount of daylight |
0:38.0 | people experience while out in the bow. |
0:40.2 | In countries across the world that run it, |
0:42.1 | the clock springs for this month, |
0:43.9 | leading to misdepoints, mumble excuses, |
0:46.9 | and apparently more heart attacks. |
0:50.2 | One US study found a 24% rise in heart attacks |
0:53.8 | on the Monday after the clock change. |
0:55.9 | But loyal listener, Adrian Brasnott wasn't so sure about this. |
1:00.0 | On the face of it, this rather alarming figure |
1:02.0 | sounds very implausible. |
1:03.6 | Data sources vary, though in the UK, |
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