Logan Dove
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2,051 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Logan Dove’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so the question we're going to examine, is the extra afternoon light worth it?
No, it's all relative to work hours.
Yes.
Because I...
We'll get into it.
Okay.
Take it away.
So to answer this question, we're going to go way back.
What is daylight savings and where'd it come from?
A plain definition is that daylight savings time is the practice of setting our clocks one hour ahead of standard time in the warmer months.
So a given stretch of daylight lands later in the day.
We move the clocks forward one hour on the second Sunday in March and back one hour on the first Sunday in November.
The origins of daylight savings time can be traced to Ben Franklin, though tenuously.
As US envoy to France, Ben Franklin published a satirical essay that Parisians could save 64 million pounds of candle wax if people just woke up with the sun.
He did propose firing cannons at dawn, but never proposed changing the clocks.
Fast forward about 100 years, and George Hudson, a New Zealand postal worker and entomologist, proposed a two-hour shift, primarily so he'd have more daylight to collect bugs after work.
This was October to March in the southern hemisphere, but same for us.
It's the opposite in the northern hemisphere.
He didn't get a whole lot of traction until 1907 when William Willett, an English builder, Royal Astronomical Society fellow, and golfer proposed a similar advancement, but in four 20-minute increments across the month of April and reversing that in September.
The stated benefits were more recreation time, less crime, less energy.
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