Daylight Saving Time

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by podcasters/producers Anna Hossnieh and Shereen Lani Younes (‘Ethnically Ambiguous’ podcast) for a look at why Daylight Saving Time is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• ‘Ethnically Ambiguous’ podcast
• ‘Natch Beaut’ podcast episode: “Eyebrow Pressure with Ethnically Ambiguous”
• ‘Will You Accept This Rose?’ podcast
• ‘The Daily Zeitgeist’ podcast
• Shereen Lani Younes’s website

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Seize The Daylight: The Curious And Contentious Story Of Daylight Saving Time by David Prerau 
• “Daylight Savings Time” And Commonly Mixed-Up Words And Phrases (Dictionary.com)
• Time Change 2021 in New Zealand (TimeAndDate.com)  — “When local standard time was about to reach Sunday, September 26, 2021, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, September 26, 2021, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.”
• Time Change 2021 in Russia (TimeAndDate.com) — “DST is no longer in use. Clocks do not change in Russia.”
• Daylight saving time 2019: The odd history of changing our clocks (National Geographic)
• 100 years later, the madness of daylight saving time endures (The Conversation.com)
• Tired of daylight saving time? These places are trying to end it. (National Geographic)
• Why Europe Couldn’t Stop Daylight Saving Time (Bloomberg CityLab)
• Time to Move On? The Case Against Daylight Saving Time (National Geographic) — “For some reason, many Americans grew up believing that the practice was adopted for farmers. Tufts University professor Michael Downing: ‘That’s the complete inverse of what’s true. The farmers were the only organized lobby against daylight saving in the history of the country,’ he said, explaining that the practice left them with an hour less sunlight to get crops to market.”