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Nov 14, 2023 1 hr 27 min

EP 32: When the heck are we?!?!

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of History Spelunkers. In today's episode we are going to delve into the question of why time works the way it does and what is the whole deal about daylight savings time. The short answer is that it is all arbitrary and that the pillars of our society will crumble like sand if we think about them for too long. If you want the more detailed answer, then you will just have to dive down the rabbit hole..... Shownotes: Episode photo is from when the US Senate changed their clocks for the first daylight savings time observed by the country in 1918 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/09/samoa-plans-to-move-clocks-24-hours https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-the-last-time-the-us-tried-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-180979742/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gregorian-calendar https://www.britannica.com/science/Julian-calendar https://restofworld.org/2023/newsletter-latin-america-mexico-end-daylight-savings/ https://www.rbth.com/travel/329966-times-zones-russia https://www.geographyrealm.com/geography-of-the-international-date-line/ https://greenwichmeantime.com/articles/history/conference/ Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds

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