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| author | Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-11-02 22:32:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-11-02 22:32:14 +0000 |
| commit | 68b27eaa458c119f24ec54c581601412bbcd5d5d (patch) | |
| tree | 674dd8a751c8cc5b5122e9ca69451d529284c7c3 /unused/tz-art.htm | |
| parent | 4f9074da93347bbe3167e16ebd27d5bd0e592729 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/unused/tz-art.htm b/unused/tz-art.htm index cba330e0b76c..4bc32b24a10e 100644 --- a/unused/tz-art.htm +++ b/unused/tz-art.htm @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" <body> <h1>Time and the Arts</h1> <address> -@(#)tz-art.htm 8.13 +@(#)tz-art.htm 8.14 </address> <p> This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of @@ -354,7 +354,8 @@ premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of "Medium" (originally aired 2007-02-28). </li> <li> -In the 1946 "A Matter of Life and Death," +In the 1946 movie "A Matter of Life and Death" +(U.S. title "Stairway to Heaven") there is a reference to British Double Summer Time. The time does not play a large part in the plot; it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the @@ -363,6 +364,31 @@ The IMDb page is at <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/"> http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/ </a>. (Dave Cantor) +<li> +The 1953 railway comedy movie "The Titfield Thunderbolt" includes a +play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants +him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?" +And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time." +IMDB page: +<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/"> +http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/ +</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) +</li> +<li> +The premise of the 1999 caper movie "Entrapment" involves computers +in an international banking network being shut down briefly at +midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition +from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown +is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for +a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the +crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to +the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the +last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 x 60 = 10.) +IMDB page: +<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/"> +http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/ +</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) +</li> </li> </ul> <hr> |