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10 <h1>Time and the Arts</h1>
11 <h2>Documentaries</h2>
14 "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4">Daylight
15 Saving Time Explained</a>" (2011; 6:39) lightly covers daylight saving
16 time's theory, history, pros and cons. Among other things, it explains
17 Arizona's daylight-saving enclaves quite well.</li>
19 "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY">The Problem
20 with Time & Timezones – Computerphile</a>" (2013; 10:12) delves
21 into problems that programmers have with timekeeping.</li>
23 "About Time" (1962; 53 minutes) is part of the the
24 Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter, Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne.
25 (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154110/">IMDb entry</a>.)</li>
29 Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:</p>
31 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Karrin Allyson</td></tr>
32 <tr><td>CD</td><td>I Didn't Know About You</td></tr>
33 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr>
34 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr>
35 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4543</td></tr>
36 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:44</td></tr>
37 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Karrin Allyson, vocal;
40 Todd Strait, drums</td></tr>
41 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson;
42 arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson"</td></tr>
43 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
44 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-didnt-know-about-you-mw0000618657">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
45 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
46 <tr><td> </td></tr>
47 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Kevin Mahogany</td></tr>
48 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Double Rainbow</td></tr>
49 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr>
50 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Enja Records</td></tr>
51 <tr><td>ID</td><td>ENJ-7097 2</td></tr>
52 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>6:27</td></tr>
53 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Kevin Mahogany, vocal;
56 Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone;
57 Lewis Nash, drums</td></tr>
58 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr>
59 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/double-rainbow-mw0000620371">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
60 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
61 <tr><td> </td></tr>
62 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Joe Williams</td></tr>
63 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Here's to Life</td></tr>
64 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr>
65 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Telarc International Corporation</td></tr>
66 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CD-83357</td></tr>
67 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:58</td></tr>
68 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Joe Williams, vocal
69 The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra</td></tr>
70 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from
71 Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461)</td></tr>
72 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr>
73 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/heres-to-life-mw0000623648">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
74 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
75 <tr><td> </td></tr>
76 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Fambrough</td></tr>
77 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Keeper of the Spirit</td></tr>
78 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr>
79 <tr><td>Label</td><td>AudioQuest Music</td></tr>
80 <tr><td>ID</td><td>AQ-CD1033</td></tr>
81 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>7:07</td></tr>
82 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Fambrough, bass;
83 Joel Levine, tenor recorder;
86 Marion Simon, percussion</td></tr>
87 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
88 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/keeper-of-the-spirit-mw0000176559">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr>
89 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
94 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Holly Cole Trio</td></tr>
95 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Blame It On My Youth</td></tr>
96 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1992</td></tr>
97 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Manhattan</td></tr>
98 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CDP 7 97349 2</td></tr>
99 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>37:45</td></tr>
100 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Holly Cole, voice;
102 David Piltch, string bass</td></tr>
103 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in
104 Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"</td></tr>
105 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
106 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/blame-it-on-my-youth-mw0000274303">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
107 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>unrated</td></tr>
108 <tr><td> </td></tr>
109 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Milt Hinton</td></tr>
110 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Old Man Time</td></tr>
111 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1990</td></tr>
112 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Chiaroscuro</td></tr>
113 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CR(D) 310</td></tr>
114 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>149:38 (two CDs)</td></tr>
115 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Milt Hinton, bass;
116 Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet;
118 Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate,
119 clarinet and saxophone;
120 John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith,
122 Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar;
123 Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams,
125 Lionel Hampton, vibraphone;
126 Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal;
127 Buck Clayton, arrangements</td></tr>
128 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time,
130 A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,
131 Four or Five Times, Now's the Time,
132 Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us,
133 and Good Time Charlie.
134 <a href="http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/album.php?C=310">Album info</a>
135 is available.</td></tr>
136 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
137 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/old-man-time-mw0000269353">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
138 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
139 <tr><td> </td></tr>
140 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Alan Broadbent</td></tr>
141 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Pacific Standard Time</td></tr>
142 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr>
143 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr>
144 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4664</td></tr>
145 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>62:42</td></tr>
146 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Alan Broadbent, piano;
148 Frank Gibson, Jr., drums</td></tr>
149 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans</td></tr>
150 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
151 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/pacific-standard-time-mw0000645433">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
152 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
153 <tr><td> </td></tr>
154 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum</td></tr>
155 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Silence/Time Zones</td></tr>
156 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1996</td></tr>
157 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Black Lion</td></tr>
158 <tr><td>ID</td><td>BLCD 760221</td></tr>
159 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>72:58</td></tr>
160 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones,
161 contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments;
162 Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments;
163 Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments;
164 Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer</td></tr>
165 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr>
166 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/silence-time-zones-mw0000595735">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
167 <tr><td> </td></tr>
168 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Gayle</td></tr>
169 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Time Zones</td></tr>
170 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2006</td></tr>
171 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Tompkins Square</td></tr>
172 <tr><td>ID</td><td>TSQ2839</td></tr>
173 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>49:06</td></tr>
174 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Gayle, piano</td></tr>
175 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
176 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/time-zones-mw0000349642">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
177 <tr><td> </td></tr>
178 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Get Up Kids</td></tr>
179 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Eudora</td></tr>
180 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr>
181 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Vagrant</td></tr>
182 <tr><td>ID</td><td>357</td></tr>
183 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>65:12</td></tr>
184 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Central Standard Time." Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information.</td></tr>
185 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/eudora-mw0000592063">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
186 <tr><td> </td></tr>
188 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Coldplay</td></tr>
189 <tr><td>Song</td><td>Clocks</td></tr>
190 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2003</td></tr>
191 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Capitol Records</td></tr>
192 <tr><td>ID</td><td>52608</td></tr>
193 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>4:13</td></tr>
194 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Won the 2004 Record of the Year honor at the
195 Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin,
196 great-great-grandson of DST inventor William Willett. The song's first
197 line is "Lights go out and I can't be saved".</td></tr>
198 <tr><td> </td></tr>
200 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Irving Kahal and Harry Richman</td></tr>
201 <tr><td>Song</td><td>There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time</td></tr>
202 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1931</td>
203 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>This musical standard was a No. 1 hit for Guy Lombardo
204 in 1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie
205 and many others. The phrase "Moonlight saving time" also appears in
206 the 1995 country song "Not Enough Hours in the Night" written by Aaron
207 Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug
209 <tr><td> </td></tr>
211 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Microscopic Septet</td></tr>
212 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Lobster Leaps In</td></tr>
213 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2008</td></tr>
214 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Cuneiform</td></tr>
215 <tr><td>ID</td><td>272</td></tr>
216 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>73:05</td></tr>
217 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Twilight Time Zone."</td></tr>
218 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/lobster-leaps-in-mw0000794929">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
219 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
221 <tr><td> </td></tr>
223 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Bob Dylan</td></tr>
224 <tr><td>CD</td><td>The Times They Are a-Changin'</td></tr>
225 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1964</td></tr>
226 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Columbia</td></tr>
227 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CK-8905</td></tr>
228 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>45:36</td></tr>
229 <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>
230 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr>
231 <tr><td>Notes<td>The title song is also available on "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" and "The Essential Bob Dylan."</td></tr>
232 <tr><td> </td></tr>
234 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Luciana Souza</td></tr>
235 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Tide</td></tr>
236 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2009</td></tr>
237 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Universal Jazz France</td></tr>
238 <tr><td>ID</td><td>B0012688-02</td></tr>
239 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>42:31</td></tr>
240 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/tide-mw0000815692">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
241 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
242 <tr><td>Notes<td>Includes the song "Fire and Wood" with the lyric
243 "The clocks were turned back you remember/Think it's still November."
245 <tr><td> </td></tr>
246 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Ken Nordine</td></tr>
247 <tr><td>CD</td><td>You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters</td></tr>
248 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2005</td></tr>
249 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Geffen</td></tr>
250 <tr><td>ID</td><td>B0005171-02</td></tr>
251 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>156:22</td></tr>
252 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
253 <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>
254 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the piece "What Time Is It"
255 ("He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted").</td></tr>
262 An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled "The Mysterious
263 Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
264 of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time;
265 doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to
266 emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
269 The 1960s ITC television series <em>The Prisoner</em> included an episode
270 entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to
271 the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big
272 Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
275 The series <em>Seinfeld</em> included an episode entitled "The Susie," first
276 broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time
277 isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour.
280 The "20 Hours in America" episode of <em>The West Wing</em>,
281 first aired 2002-09-25,
282 saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to
283 catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.
286 "In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on
287 the 1999-11-13 United States airing of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</em>,
288 and "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time
289 zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of
290 the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone
291 question should have been asked 2002-06-04.
294 A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois'
295 premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of <em>Medium</em>
296 (originally aired 2007-02-28).
299 In the <em>30 Rock</em> episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day"
300 (first broadcast 2010-02-11),
301 Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call
302 received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times.
305 In the "Run by the Monkeys" episode of <em>Da Vinci's Inquest</em>
306 (first broadcast 2002-11-17),
307 a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set
308 their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire,
309 introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred.
312 In "The Todd Couple" episode of <em>Outsourced</em> (first aired 2011-02-10),
313 Manmeet sets up Valentine's Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm;
314 since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan,
316 (Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show
317 proceeds as though it's also mid-evening there.)
320 In the "14 Days to Go"/"T Minus..." episode of
321 <em>You, Me and the Apocalypse</em>
322 (first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US),
323 the success of a mission to deal with a comet
324 hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time.
325 (In the US, the episode first aired in the week before the switch to DST.)
330 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>The Lost Hour</td>
331 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>Eerie, Indiana</em></td>
332 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>10</td>
333 <tr><td>Network</td><td>NBC</td>
334 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1991-12-01</td>
335 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences.</td></tr>
336 <tr><td> </td></tr>
338 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>Time Tunnel</td>
339 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Adventures of Pete & Pete</em></td>
340 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>5, season 2</td>
341 <tr><td>Network</td><td>Nickelodeon</td>
342 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1994-10-23</td>
343 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends.</td></tr>
344 <tr><td> </td></tr>
346 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>King-Size Homer</td>
347 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Simpsons</em></td>
348 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>135</td>
349 <tr><td>Network</td><td>Fox</td>
350 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1995-11-05</td>
351 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Homer, working from home, remarks "8:58, first
352 time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight
353 savings days. Lousy farmers."</td></tr>
354 <tr><td> </td></tr>
356 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>Tracks</td></tr>
357 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Good Wife</em></td></tr>
358 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>12, season 7</td></tr>
359 <tr><td>Network</td><td>CBS</td></tr>
360 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>2016-01-17</td></tr>
361 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The applicability of a contract hinges on the
362 time zone associated with a video time stamp.</td></tr>
365 <h2>Books, plays, and magazines</h2>
368 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Jules Verne</td></tr>
369 <tr><td>Book</td><td><em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em>
370 (<em>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</em>)</td></tr>
371 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
372 European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in
373 deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once
375 An on-line French-language version of the book
376 "with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition"
378 <a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</a>
379 An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at
380 <a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</a></td></tr>
382 <tr><td> </td></tr>
383 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Nick Enright</td></tr>
384 <tr><td>Play</td><td><em>Daylight Saving</em></td></tr>
385 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1989</td></tr>
386 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
387 A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back.
390 <tr><td> </td></tr>
391 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Umberto Eco</td></tr>
392 <tr><td>Book</td><td><em>The Island of the Day Before</em>
393 (<em>L'isola del giorno prima</em>)</td></tr>
394 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr>
395 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
396 "...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island
397 on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral
398 part in the novel." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22)
400 <tr><td> </td></tr>
401 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>John Dunning</td></tr>
402 <tr><td>Book</td><td><a
403 href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Two-OClock-Eastern-Wartime/John-Dunning/9781439171530"><em>Two
404 O'Clock, Eastern Wartime</em></a></td></tr>
405 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr>
406 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
407 Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio.
413 Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
414 of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>.
417 "Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of <em>Time</em>
418 magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed
419 year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.
425 In the 1946 movie <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em>
426 (U.S. title <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>)
427 there is a reference to British Double Summer Time.
428 The time does not play a large part in the plot;
429 it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the
430 characters was supposed to have died (but didn't).
432 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">
433 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/
436 The 1953 railway comedy movie <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> includes a
437 play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants
438 him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?"
439 And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time."
441 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">
442 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/
443 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
446 The premise of the 1999 caper movie <em>Entrapment</em> involves computers
447 in an international banking network being shut down briefly at
448 midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition
449 from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown
450 is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for
451 a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the
452 crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to
453 the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the
454 last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 × 60 = 10.)
456 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">
457 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/
458 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
461 One mustn't forget the
462 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo">trailer</a>
463 (2014; 2:23) for the movie <em>Daylight Saving</em>.
469 The webcomic <em>xkcd</em> has the strip
470 "<a href='http://xkcd.com/673/'>The Sun</a>" (2009-12-09) and the panels
471 "<a href='http://xkcd.com/1017/'>Backward in Time</a>" (2012-02-14),
472 "<a href='http://xkcd.com/1061/'>EST</a>" (2012-05-28), and
473 "<a href='http://xkcd.com/1335/'>Now</a>" (2014-02-26), and
474 "<a href='http://xkcd.com/1655/'>Doomsday Clock</a>" (2016-03-14).
475 The related book <em>What If?</em> has an entry
476 "<a href='http://what-if.xkcd.com/26/'>Leap Seconds</a>" (2012-12-31).
479 The syndicated comic strip <em>Dilbert</em> featured an
480 <a href='http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-03-14'>example of
481 time zone humor</a> on 1998-03-14.
484 Peppermint Patty: "What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?"
486 Marcie: "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact,
487 it's already tomorrow in Australia!"
489 (Charles M. Schulz, <a href='http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13'><em>Peanuts</em>, 1980-06-13</a>)
495 "We've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492.
496 Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight saving."
497 (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in <em>Animal Crackers</em>, 1930,
498 as noted by Will Fitzgerald)
501 BRADY. ...[Bishop Usher] determined that the Lord began the Creation
502 on the 23rd of October in the Year 4,004 B.C. at – uh, 9 A.M.!
504 DRUMMOND. That Eastern Standard Time? (<em>Laughter.</em>) Or Rocky Mountain
505 Time? (<em>More laughter.</em>) It wasn't daylight-saving time, was it? Because
506 the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day!
508 (From the play <em>Inherit the Wind</em> by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee,
509 filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as
510 Brady, and several other times. Thanks to Mark Brader.)
514 "What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
515 (Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a
516 May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series <em>Baywatch</em>)
519 "A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
520 cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
521 they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief – like so many myths, such as that
522 there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time' – is false."
523 (Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02)
526 "I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day
527 when you turn the clocks ahead."
528 (Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)
531 "Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?"
532 ("Sahjhan" to "Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of <em>Angel</em>,
533 originally aired 2002-02-25)
536 "I thought you said Tulsa was a three-hour flight."
537 "Well, you're forgetting about the time difference."
538 ("Joey" and "Chandler" in dialog from the episode of <em>Friends</em>
539 entitled "The One With Rachel's Phone Number," originally aired 2002-12-05)
542 "Is that a pertinent fact,
543 or are you just trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?"
544 (Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane" to "Roz" from the episode of <em>Frasier</em>
545 entitled "The Kid," originally aired 1997-11-04)
548 "I put myself and my staff through this crazy, huge ordeal, all because
549 I refused to go on at midnight, okay? And so I work, you know, and
550 then I get this job at eleven, supposed to be a big deal. Then
551 yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now it's basically
552 midnight." (Conan O'Brien on the 2010-11-08 premiere of <em>Conan</em>.)
555 "Well, in my time zone that's all the time I have,
556 but maybe in your time zone I haven't finished yet. So stay tuned!"
557 (Goldie Hawn, <em>Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In</em> No. 65, 1970-03-09)
562 <li><a href="tz-link.htm">Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving
567 This web page is in the public domain, so clarified as of
568 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
570 Please send corrections to this web page to the
571 <a href="mailto:tz@iana.org">time zone mailing list</a>.
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