SYSK Selects: How Daylight Saving Time Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 18 November 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, Benjamin Franklin first came up with daylight saving time in 1748, and people still practice it today. But how does it work? What are the pros and cons? Join Josh and Chuck as they turn back the clock to explore the ori

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Hi everybody, Chuck here with How Daylight Savings Time Works.
0:36.9	My selects pick of the week from December 6, 2011.
0:41.0	And in real time we have just sort of recently done the opposite where we fall back with
0:47.3	our clocks annually, which is kind of a depressing time of the year to be honest.
0:52.5	That means on your clock it's dark really early.
0:55.9	Then on the other hand it's light a little bit earlier in the day.
0:58.8	And daylight savings time and the whole concept of it has always just been a little weird
1:02.4	to me.
1:03.4	And there are many false rumors out there about why we do it, how it started, and this
1:08.2	episode will clear it all up.
1:10.3	So please to enjoy How Daylight Savings Time Works.
1:20.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
1:30.3	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:31.9	I'm Josh Clark.
1:33.2	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
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