What Time Is It?
The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families
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Embracing Outdoor Time and Daylight Saving History
The chapter discusses the benefits of spending time outdoors and the challenge of achieving a goal to spend 1,000 hours outdoors in a year, emphasizing the positive impacts on health, stress levels, learning, and social skills. It then delves into the history and rationale behind daylight saving time, tracing its origins back to the proposals of William Willett and George Hudson, highlighting the practical aspects of shifting clocks and the varying societal attitudes towards daylight saving.
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