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Among other things, it explains +Arizona's daylight-saving enclaves quite well.</li> +<li> +"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY">The Problem +with Time & Timezones – Computerphile</a>" (2013; 10:12) delves +into problems that programmers have with timekeeping.</li> +<li> +<a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/28375932.html">All The Time In The World: +Explaining The Mysteries Of Time Zones</a>" (2017; 2:15) +briefly says why France has more time zones than Russia. +<li> +"About Time" (1962; 53 minutes) is part of the +Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter, Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne. +Its advisor was Richard Feynman, and it was voiced by Mel Blanc. +(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154110/">IMDb entry</a>.)</li> +</ul> +<h2>Movies</h2> +<ul> +<li> +In the 1946 movie <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em> +(U.S. title <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>) +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 +characters was supposed to have died (but didn't). +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 <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> 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 <em>Entrapment</em> 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 × 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> +One mustn't forget the +<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo">trailer</a> +(2014; 2:23) for the movie <em>Daylight Saving</em>. +</li> +</ul> +<h2>TV episodes</h2> +<ul> +<li> +An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled "The Mysterious +Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers +of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; +doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to +emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. +</li> +<li> +"The Chimes of Big Ben", <em>The Prisoner</em>, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06. +Our protagonist tumbles to +the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big +Ben" chiming on Polish local time. +</li> +<li> +"The Susie", <em>Seinfeld</em>, season 8, episode 15, NBC, 1997-02-13. +Kramer decides that daylight saving time +isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. +</li> +<li> +"20 Hours in America", <em>The West Wing</em>, season 4, episodes 1–2, +2002-09-25, contained a <a +href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc">scene</a> that +saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to +catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. +</li> +<li> +"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on +the 1999-11-13 United States airing of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</em>, +and "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time +zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of +the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone +question should have been asked 2002-06-04. +</li> +<li> +A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois' +premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of <em>Medium</em> +(originally aired 2007-02-28). +</li> +<li> +In the <em>30 Rock</em> episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day" +(first broadcast 2010-02-11), +Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call +received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times. +</li> +<li> +In the "Run by the Monkeys" episode of <em>Da Vinci's Inquest</em> +(first broadcast 2002-11-17), +a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set +their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire, +introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred. +</li> +<li> +In "The Todd Couple" episode of <em>Outsourced</em> (first aired 2011-02-10), +Manmeet sets up Valentine's Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm; +since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, +hilarity ensues. +(Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show +proceeds as though it's also mid-evening there.) +</li> +<li> +In the "14 Days to Go"/"T Minus..." episode of +<em>You, Me and the Apocalypse</em> +(first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US), +the success of a mission to deal with a comet +hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time. +(In the US, the episode first aired in the week before the switch to DST.) +</li> +<li> +"The Lost Hour", <em>Eerie, Indiana</em>, episode 10, NBC, 1991-12-01. +Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with +unusual consequences. +See "<a +href="https://www.avclub.com/eerie-indiana-was-a-few-dimensions-ahead-of-its-time-1819833380"><em>Eerie, +Indiana</em> was a few dimensions ahead of its time</a>". +</li> +<li> +"Time Tunnel", <em>The Adventures of Pete & Pete</em>, season 2, episode 5, +Nickelodeon, 1994-10-23. +The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends. +</li> +<li> +"King-Size Homer", <em>The Simpsons</em>, episode 135, Fox, 1995-11-05. +Homer, working from home, remarks "8:58, first +time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight +savings days. Lousy farmers." +</li> +<li> +"Tracks", <em>The Good Wife</em>, season 7, episode 12, +CBS, 2016-01-17. +The applicability of a contract hinges on the +time zone associated with a video timestamp. +</li> +<li> +"Justice", <em>Veep</em>, season 6, episode 4, HBO, 2017-05-07. +Jonah's inability to understand DST ends up impressing a wealthy +backer who sets him up for a 2020 presidential run. +</li> +</ul> +<h2>Books, plays, and magazines</h2> +<ul> +<li> +Jules Verne, <em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em> +(<em>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</em>), 1873. +Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. +European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in +deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once +reading a paper. +Available versions include +<a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">an English +translation</a>, and +<a href="https://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">the original French</a> +"with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition". +</li> +<li> +Nick Enright, <em>Daylight Saving</em>, 1989. +A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back. +</li> +<li> +Umberto Eco, <em>The Island of the Day Before</em> +(<em>L'isola del giorno prima</em>), 1994. +"...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island +on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral +part in the novel." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22) +</li> +<li> +John Dunning, <a +href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Two-OClock-Eastern-Wartime/John-Dunning/9781439171530"><em>Two +O'Clock, Eastern Wartime</em></a>, 2001. +Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio. +</li> +<li> +Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 +of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>. +</li> +<li> +"Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of <em>Time</em> +magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed +year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair. +</li> +</ul> +<h2>Music</h2> +<p> +Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:</p> +<table> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Karrin Allyson</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>I Didn't Know About You</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4543</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:44</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Karrin Allyson, vocal; +Russ Long, piano; +Gerald Spaits, bass; +Todd Strait, drums</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson; +arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson"</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-didnt-know-about-you-mw0000618657">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Kevin Mahogany</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Double Rainbow</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Enja Records</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>ENJ-7097 2</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>6:27</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Kevin Mahogany, vocal; +Kenny Barron, piano; +Ray Drummond, bass; +Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone; +Lewis Nash, drums</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/double-rainbow-mw0000620371">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Joe Williams</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Here's to Life</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Telarc International Corporation</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CD-83357</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:58</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Joe Williams, vocal +The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from +Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461)</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/heres-to-life-mw0000623648">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Fambrough</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Keeper of the Spirit</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>AudioQuest Music</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>AQ-CD1033</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>7:07</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Fambrough, bass; +Joel Levine, tenor recorder; +Edward Simon, piano; +Lenny White, drums; +Marion Simon, percussion</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/keeper-of-the-spirit-mw0000176559">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +</table> +<hr> +<p>Also of note:</p> +<table> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Holly Cole Trio</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Blame It On My Youth</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1992</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Manhattan</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CDP 7 97349 2</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>37:45</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Holly Cole, voice; +Aaron Davis, piano; +David Piltch, string bass</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in +Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/blame-it-on-my-youth-mw0000274303">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>unrated</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Milt Hinton</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Old Man Time</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1990</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Chiaroscuro</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CR(D) 310</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>149:38 (two CDs)</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Milt Hinton, bass; +Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet; +Al Grey, trombone; +Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate, +clarinet and saxophone; +John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith, +Ralph Sutton, piano; +Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar; +Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams, +drums; +Lionel Hampton, vibraphone; +Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal; +Buck Clayton, arrangements</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time, +Sometimes I'm Happy, +A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, +Four or Five Times, Now's the Time, +Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us, +and Good Time Charlie. +<a href="http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/album.php?C=310">Album info</a> +is available.</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/old-man-time-mw0000269353">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Alan Broadbent</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Pacific Standard Time</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4664</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>62:42</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Alan Broadbent, piano; +Putter Smith, Bass; +Frank Gibson, Jr., drums</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/pacific-standard-time-mw0000645433">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Silence/Time Zones</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1996</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Black Lion</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>BLCD 760221</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>72:58</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones, +contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments; +Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments; +Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments; +Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/silence-time-zones-mw0000595735">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Gayle</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Time Zones</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2006</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Tompkins Square</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>TSQ2839</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>49:06</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Gayle, piano</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/time-zones-mw0000349642">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Get Up Kids</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Eudora</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Vagrant</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>357</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>65:12</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Central Standard Time." Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/eudora-mw0000592063">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Coldplay</td></tr> +<tr><td>Song</td><td>Clocks</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2003</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Capitol Records</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>52608</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>4:13</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Won the 2004 Record of the Year honor at the +Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin, +great-great-grandson of DST inventor William Willett. The song's first +line is "Lights go out and I can't be saved".</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Jaime Guevara</td></tr> +<tr><td>Song</td><td><a +href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfN4Fe_A50U">Qué +hora es</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>Date</td><td>1993</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>3:04</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The song protested "Sixto Hour" in Ecuador +(1992–3). Its lyrics include "Amanecía en mitad de la noche, los +guaguas iban a clase sin sol" ("It was dawning in the middle of the +night, the buses went to class without sun"). +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Irving Kahal and Harry Richman</td></tr> +<tr><td>Song</td><td>There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1931</td> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>This musical standard was a No. 1 hit for Guy Lombardo +in 1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie +and many others. The phrase "Moonlight saving time" also appears in +the 1995 country song "Not Enough Hours in the Night" written by Aaron +Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug +Supernaw.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Microscopic Septet</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Lobster Leaps In</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2008</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Cuneiform</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>272</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>73:05</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Twilight Time Zone."</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/lobster-leaps-in-mw0000794929">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Bob Dylan</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>The Times They Are a-Changin'</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1964</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Columbia</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CK-8905</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>45:36</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-times-they-a-changin-mw0000202344">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes<td>The title song is also available on "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" and "The Essential Bob Dylan."</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Luciana Souza</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Tide</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2009</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Universal Jazz France</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>B0012688-02</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>42:31</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/tide-mw0000815692">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes<td>Includes the song "Fire and Wood" with the lyric +"The clocks were turned back you remember/Think it's still November." +</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Ken Nordine</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2005</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Geffen</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>B0005171-02</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>156:22</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/youre-getting-better-the-word-jazz-dot-masters-mw0000736197">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the piece "What Time Is It" +("He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted").</td></tr> +</table> +<h2>Comics</h2> +<ul> +<li> +The webcomic <em>xkcd</em> has the strip +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/673/'>The Sun</a>" (2009-12-09) and the panels +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1017/'>Backward in Time</a>" (2012-02-14), +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1061/'>EST</a>" (2012-05-28), +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1179/'>ISO 8601</a>" (2013-02-27), +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1335/'>Now</a>" (2014-02-26), +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1655/'>Doomsday Clock</a>" (2016-03-14), +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1799/'>Bad Map Projection: Time Zones</a>" +(2017-02-15), and +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1883/'>Supervillain Plan</a>" (2017-08-30). +The related book <em>What If?</em> has an entry +"<a href='https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/'>Leap Seconds</a>" (2012-12-31). +</li> +<li> +Pig kills time in <a +href="http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/11/06"><em>Pearls +Before Swine</em> (2016-11-06)</a>. +</li> +<li> +Stonehenge is abandoned in <a +href='http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2017/03/12'><em>Non Sequitur</em> +(2017-03-12)</a>. +<li> +The boss freaks out in <a +href='http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-03-14'><em>Dilbert</em> (1998-03-14)</a>. +</li> +<li> +Peppermint Patty: "What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?" +<br> +Marcie: "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact, +it's already tomorrow in Australia!" +<br> +(Charles M. Schulz, <a href='http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13'><em>Peanuts</em>, 1980-06-13</a>) +</li> +</ul> +<h2>Jokes</h2> +<ul> +<li> +The idea behind daylight saving time was first proposed as a joke by +Benjamin Franklin. To enforce it, he suggested, "Every +morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all the bells in every church +be set ringing; and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in +every street, to wake the sluggards effectually, and make them open +their eyes to see their true interest. All the difficulty will be in +the first two or three days: after which the reformation will be as +natural and easy as the present irregularity; for, <em>ce n'est que le +premier pas qui coûte</em>." +<a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html">Franklin's +joke</a> was first published on 1784-04-26 by the +<em>Journal de Paris</em> as <a +href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin-Benjamin-Journal-de-Paris-1784.jpg">an +anonymous letter translated into French</a>. +</li> +<li> +"We've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. +Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight saving." +(Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in <em>Animal Crackers</em>, 1930, +as noted by Will Fitzgerald) +</li> +<li> +BRADY. ...[Bishop Usher] determined that the Lord began the Creation +on the 23rd of October in the Year 4,004 B.C. at – uh, 9 A.M.! +<br> +DRUMMOND. That Eastern Standard Time? (<em>Laughter.</em>) Or Rocky Mountain +Time? (<em>More laughter.</em>) It wasn't daylight-saving time, was it? Because +the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day! +<br> +(From the play <em>Inherit the Wind</em> by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, +filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as +Brady, and several other times. Thanks to Mark Brader.) +</li> +<li> +"Good news." +"What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?" +(Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a +May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series <em>Baywatch</em>) +</li> +<li> +"A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you +cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing +they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief – like so many myths, such as that +there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time' – is false." +(Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02) +</li> +<li> +"I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day +when you turn the clocks ahead." +(Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10) +</li> +<li> +"Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?" +("Sahjhan" to "Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of <em>Angel</em>, +originally aired 2002-02-25) +</li> +<li> +"I thought you said Tulsa was a three-hour flight." +"Well, you're forgetting about the time difference." +("Joey" and "Chandler" in dialog from the episode of <em>Friends</em> +entitled "The One With Rachel's Phone Number," originally aired 2002-12-05) +</li> +<li> +"Is that a pertinent fact, +or are you just trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?" +(Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane" to "Roz" from the episode of <em>Frasier</em> +entitled "The Kid," originally aired 1997-11-04) +</li> +<li> +"I put myself and my staff through this crazy, huge ordeal, all because +I refused to go on at midnight, okay? And so I work, you know, and +then I get this job at eleven, supposed to be a big deal. Then +yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now it's basically +midnight." (Conan O'Brien on the 2010-11-08 premiere of <em>Conan</em>.) +</li> +<li> +"The best method, I told folks, was to hang a large clock high on a +barn wall where all the cows could see it. If you have Holsteins, you +will need to use an analog clock." (Jerry Nelson, <a +href="http://www.agriculture.com/family/farm-humor/how-to-adjust-dairy-cows-to-daylight-savings-time">How +to adjust dairy cows to daylight saving time</a>", <em>Successful Farming</em>, +2017-10-09.) +</li> +<li> +"And now, driving to California, I find that I must enter a password +in order to change the time zone on my laptop clock. Evidently, +someone is out to mess up my schedule and my clock must be secured." +(Garrison Keillor, +"<a href="http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/weve-never-been-here-before/">We've +never been here before</a>", 2017-08-22) +</li> +<li> +"Well, in my time zone that's all the time I have, +but maybe in your time zone I haven't finished yet. So stay tuned!" +(Goldie Hawn, <em>Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In</em> No. 65, 1970-03-09) +</li> +</ul> +<h2>See also</h2> +<ul> +<li><a href="tz-link.html">Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving +Time Data</a></li> +</ul> +<hr> +<address> +This web page is in the public domain, so clarified as of +2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. +<br> +Please send corrections to this web page to the +<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org">time zone mailing list</a>. +</address> +</body> +</html> |