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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Chuck here with How Daylight Savings Time works

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Speaker 1: my select pick of the week from December six, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eleven. And in real time, we have just

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Speaker 1: sort of recently done the opposite where we fall back

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Speaker 1: with our clocks annually, which is kind of a depressing

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Speaker 1: time of the year, to be honest, means on your

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Speaker 1: clock it's dark really early. Then, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: is light a little bit earlier in the day, and

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Speaker 1: daylight savings time and the whole concept of it, it's

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Speaker 1: always just been a little weird to me, and there

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Speaker 1: are many false rumors out there about why we do it,

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Speaker 1: how it started. In this episode will clear it all up,

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Speaker 1: So please to enjoy How Daylight Savings Time Works. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Stuff You Should Know from house Stuff Works dot com.

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Speaker 1: M hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles have you, Chuck Bryant, He's on his iPhone. Chuck, No, no, uh,

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Speaker 1: that makes this stuff you should know? Huh the fully

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Speaker 1: attentive podcast. You're saying, Yeah, I can't really say anything.

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Speaker 1: You always say stuff and then I repeat it like

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds later and then get a look of death

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Speaker 1: from the Chuck, we'd like to cover our bases twice.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's important stuff like you know, um, the digestion

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Speaker 1: that's right, that thing which comes out next right? All right? Introman, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry? Am I am? I stalling? Yeah? Okay, frankly, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: have you ever heard of a methuselah? Trust? No, but

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Speaker 1: I have something being old? Uh, well you're not old. Instead,

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Speaker 1: I say, a bequeathment grant that you've put in a

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Speaker 1: an account earning compound interest for five hundred or a

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Speaker 1: thousand or a hundred years, should conceivably were it's still legal,

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Speaker 1: grow into a staggering amount of money, very like, very quickly.

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Speaker 1: For example, UM, there was a guy who you might

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Speaker 1: have heard of named Ben Franklin, Benny Ben Franklin. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In his will left a thousand pounds each to the

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Speaker 1: city of Boston in the city of Philadelphia, both of

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Speaker 1: which he considered his hometowns UM. And these these moneys

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Speaker 1: were meant to stay in a private trust that earned

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Speaker 1: compound interests, and by Franklin's reckoning, UM, within so after

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Speaker 1: left in until years after his death. So by his reckoning,

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Speaker 1: it would each city would get about the equivalent six

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Speaker 1: supposed to and and finally mature. Um. It didn't quite

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Speaker 1: work out. Franklin's calculations. Didn't take a new account, lawsuits

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Speaker 1: So what it came down to was about three and

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But he made his point, which was,

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Speaker 1: Did that really happen? Yeah, they got there, They got

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Speaker 1: What this demonstrate is probably more than anything, though, is

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Speaker 1: He was pretty good. I mean he invented spectacles. He

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Speaker 1: tremendous public service. People really not remember that. I'm among them. Really, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But no, I always had trouble with it. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: fall forward and spring back. You can't spring back. Hold on, Josh, Josh,

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Speaker 1: just sprung back, sprung back. All right, Well, here's the

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Speaker 1: as you just describe them. Right. We should also say,

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Speaker 1: say it's it's like daylight time saving. It's like daylight

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Speaker 1: great farmer. Yeah, that's kind of bunk too, from what

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Speaker 1: this idea that like our bodies are disrupted by it,

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Speaker 1: like the Swedish heart attack study. Yeah, I'm sure they are.

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Speaker 1: I never thought of it as losing an hour though,

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Speaker 1: what it said. Yeah. I never felt like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I guess I don't get up Sunday morning at seven

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Speaker 1: for a shift job. No, that's a big part of it.

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Speaker 1: I saw in the consumers some guy wanted to know

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Speaker 1: late night on November this past November for Sunday in

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Speaker 1: hour day that we just went through. That's got to

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Speaker 1: mess us up somehow, and it does. The Swedish study

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Speaker 1: and it appears to just be daylight savings really affects

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Speaker 1: over to daylight saving That's sad It is sad. Um.

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Speaker 1: There have been some kind of interesting things that happened

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Speaker 1: West Bank was on daylight savings. Israel had just switched

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Speaker 1: terrorists were preparing some time bombs, smuggled them to their

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Speaker 1: counterparts in Israel and UH as they were planning the bombs,

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Speaker 1: they blew up. No, yes, no, it's what it says.

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Speaker 1: Is that from skeptoid? Is that from Snopes? I'll take

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Speaker 1: snops too. I think I think that's real. Wow, I

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Speaker 1: think that happened. That is, Minneapolis and St. Paul were

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Speaker 1: on different uh different times in which kind of whack

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Speaker 1: things out. AM track a train cannot leave the station

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Speaker 1: before it's scheduled to. Obviously, I can't leave early because

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Speaker 1: everyone's gonna get on. So when you fall back in October,

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Speaker 1: if you're running on time, you stop and sit there

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Speaker 1: for an hour November. What did I say October? I

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Speaker 1: think it used to be in October when when this

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Speaker 1: if you're on amtrack on that day, that's right, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: And then in the spring, apparently they don't do anything

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Speaker 1: but try and catch up, like everything's a little late

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Speaker 1: for a little while, and they just try to like

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Speaker 1: drive faster. Can you imagine being a low a logistician.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear from logisticians. I have a deep

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Speaker 1: respect for your profession. Yeah, I agreed. That's tough stuff.

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Speaker 1: Who knew, you know? Is it arbitrary? What the clock says?

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Speaker 1: It's just a number. I I tend to go with

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Speaker 1: just the the rise and fall of the sun and moon.

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Speaker 1: You know, are you kidding me? Like you could throw

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Speaker 1: away every clock in the world and nothing would really change.

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Speaker 1: And you know in uncivilized parts of the world and

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Speaker 1: the civilized world everything runs on the clock. But it's

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Speaker 1: just time. The number was invented by man, I know

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Speaker 1: what you mean. Man, you know what I'm saying, abstract.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for that, Chuck. I think that was an excellent

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Speaker 1: way to kind of put everybody to sleep. But he

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Speaker 1: just put him on a little cloud and went yeah. Man.

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Speaker 1: You know, Um, if you want to learn more about clouds,

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Speaker 1: about daylight savings, time, about Chuck Brant, you can type

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Speaker 1: cool stuff, I assure you. Um, and I said search

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Speaker 1: Chuck for listeners, that's right, not listener mail. We have

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Speaker 1: a contest. We have nothing to do with Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: favor of it. Yes, if you are interested in coming

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta, all expenses paid, Yeah, that's the that's the kicker. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say all expenses paid. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if we should legally say that certain expenses are paid.

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Speaker 1: They'll you can come here toward the studio, hang out

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Speaker 1: in the office. We'll even go to lunch with you

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Speaker 1: with Jerry. Yeah, Jerry will be there and you'll get

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Speaker 1: It runs now if you're in America. Yeah, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: get the United States. As I always saw everyone from

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Speaker 1: Canada and elsewhere that's mad about this. I can't win

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Speaker 1: your contest either. I don't think that makes anybody feel

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Speaker 1: better if you're American. If you're in the United States,

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Speaker 1: it runs through December third you first winners will be

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Speaker 1: me and Chuck out to lunch. I think we'll pick

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Speaker 1: that up uh. And if you refer somebody like you,

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Speaker 1: and they win, I'm sorry. After person a enters the contest,

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Speaker 1: he or she can share the contest link with friends

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense? And I would I would give

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Speaker 1: you will find the information there and lunch, lunch it

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Speaker 1: up with us. Yeah, let's launch. Let's do lunch before

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Speaker 1: we go. I wanna correct myself big time. Correct myself

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Speaker 1: about patent trolls. In the gene Patents Okay episode, I

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Speaker 1: mentioned patent trolls and I don't even remember what I

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Speaker 1: said they were, but I was way off. Patentrols are

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Speaker 1: people who go around buying patents with no intent of

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Speaker 1: manufacturing these things or what the patent is for. I

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Speaker 1: figured that's what it was like line of website domains. Sure,

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Speaker 1: but then they sue. The whole point is to own

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Speaker 1: the patent so that they can sue anybody who infringes

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Speaker 1: on it. So basically they're keeping any kind of innovation

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Speaker 1: from coming about along the same lines of what they

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Speaker 1: own the patent to by suing people who try to

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Speaker 1: do it, and they're they're basically just whatever, this great

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Speaker 1: idea that's patented is just never going to see the

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Speaker 1: light of day because they have no interest in you

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Speaker 1: and that they just want the money from suing people.

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Speaker 1: That's a patentrol I apologize for to all the patentrols

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Speaker 1: out there. Yes, it's all the people who corrected me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Yes. Uh. If you want to

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Speaker 1: correct us, we are always up for that. You can

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Speaker 1: send us a tweet at s y esk podcast. You

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Speaker 1: can join us on Facebook. We have our own page

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Speaker 1: two it's stuff you should know, uh, and you can

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Speaker 1: also send us a good old fashioned email. Stuff podcast

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