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Like, why has slow dancing gone out of style?

And when did we all become obsessed with hydration?

And where did the word mullet, you know, to describe a hairstyle come from?

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Hey, skeptoid listeners, don't forget to set your clocks ahead an hour, because, yes, it's

that time of year again.

Which reminds me, why do we observe daylight stupid time?

I mean daylight saving time.

Everyone thinks they know the real reason, but this just happens to be one of those things

where most

folks are wrong. Join me now as we revisit all the reasons people think we observe

daylight saving time and the very real reason for how it came to be. We're going to journey

back to Skeptoid episode number 172, Daylight Saving Time Myths.

And that's coming up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Daylight Savings Time Myths.

Today we're going to turn our clock back,

or forward as the case may be, and screw up our sleep cycles, casting everything into disarray for a good week until we recover. For today's topic is daylight savings time, the myths,

the fallacies, and the facts.

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