An Ounce - For Your Consideration
Discover hidden stories from history—bite-sized, clever tales that challenge what you thought you knew. At An Ounce, we uncover the little moments that quietly changed everything, surprising truths, and fascinating facts you won’t hear elsewhere.
I’m Jim Fugate—retired firefighter, lifelong learner, and an outside-the-box thinker who loves sharing history’s hidden gems. These quick, engaging stories don’t take themselves too seriously, won’t steal your precious time, and might just make you feel a little bit smarter.
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An Ounce - For Your Consideration
The Lost Time: When 11 Days Disappeared and Chaos Followed
What if 11 days just disappeared?
It happened in 1752. This video explains the lost days, the daylight savings time connection, and why we still struggle with time today.
Discover how a calendar change shook the world—missing wages, confused farmers, shifted birthdays, and even George Washington’s “new” birthday.
From mobs yelling “Give us back our 11 days!” to parallels with Y2K panic and today’s daylight savings chaos, this isn’t just a strange moment in history—it’s a warning about how fragile our relationship with time really is.
📌 Chapters (Adjust timestamps after upload)
00:00 – Intro: Time… Lost?
01:14 – The Calendar Catastrophe
03:14 – History Forgets..
04:02 – Modern Parallel: Y2K Panic
04:55 – What Mislaying 11 Days Can Do!
06:00 – So… What’s the Deal
06:45 – An Ounce
🧠 Key Topics & Keywords
Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, 11 days missing, 1752 calendar change, daylight savings time, history of timekeeping, calendar reform, lost time in history, time confusion, Y2K, time anxiety
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Referenced or Inspired By
- Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 – UK Parliamentary Archives
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/houseofcommons/reformacts/overview/calendaract/ - William Hogarth’s “An Election Entertainment”
https://collections.soane.org/object-p253 - Oxford University Press Blog: “The Lost Days of 1752”
https://blog.oup.com/2012/09/britain-skipped-11-days-september-1752/ - National Archives – George Washington’s Birthday and Calendar Change
https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/washington - The Church and the Calendar – Journal of Ecclesiastical History (Cambridge)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/abs/change-of-calendar-in-1752/6FAABF5D04334F678989B728DBF9A196
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Music: Bored Shortz and The Cat’s Meow by Everet Almond, Muffin Man by Cooper Cannell
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