1 <!DOCTYPE html> 2 <html lang="en"> 3 <head> 4 <meta charset="UTF-8"> 5 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 6 <style> 7 ul {padding-left: 1.3rem;} 8 </style> 9 <title>Time and the arts</title> 10 </head> 11 <body> 12 <h1>Time and the arts</h1> 13 <h2>Documentaries</h2> 14 <ul> 15 <li> 16 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4">Daylight 17 Saving Time Explained</a> (2011; 6:39) lightly covers daylight saving 18 times theory, history, pros and cons. Among other things, it explains 19 Arizonas daylight-saving enclaves quite well. 20 </li> 21 <li> 22 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY">The Problem 23 with Time & Timezones Computerphile</a> (2013; 10:12) delves 24 into problems that programmers have with timekeeping. 25 </li> 26 <li> 27 <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/all-the-time-in-the-world/28375932.html">All 28 The Time In The World: Explaining The Mysteries Of Time Zones</a> (2017; 2:15) 29 briefly says why France has more time zones than Russia. 30 </li> 31 <li> 32 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRz-Dl60Lfc">Why Denmark used to be 33 .04 seconds behind the world</a> (2019; 6:29) explains why the United Kingdom 34 and, once, Denmark havent always exactly followed their own 35 laws about civil time. 36 </li> 37 <li> 38 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzsBMUiGGQ">How Daylight Savings 39 Broke this $24 Million Building</a> (2025; 5:01) describes the system of 40 mirrors used at Melbournes Shrine of Remembrance to ensure the suns light 41 still hits at the correct ceremonial hour to commemorate the Armistice which 42 ended World War I. 43 </li> 44 <li> 45 About Time (1962; 59 minutes) is part of the 46 Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter, Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne. 47 Its advisor was Richard Feynman, and it was voiced by Mel Blanc. 48 (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154110/">IMDb entry</a>.) 49 </li> 50 </ul> 51 <h2>Movies</h2> 52 <ul> 53 <li> 54 In the 1946 movie <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em> 55 (U.S. title <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>) 56 there is a reference to British Double Summer Time. 57 The time does not play a large part in the plot; 58 its just a passing reference to the time when one of the 59 characters was supposed to have died (but didnt). 60 (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">IMDb entry.</a>) 61 (Dave Cantor) 62 </li> 63 <li> 64 The 1953 railway comedy movie <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> includes a 65 play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentines wife wants 66 him to leave the pub and asks him, Do you know what time it is? 67 And he, happy where he is, replies: Yes, my love. Summer double time. 68 (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">IMDb entry.</a>) 69 (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) 70 </li> 71 <li> 72 The premise of the 1999 caper movie <em>Entrapment</em> involves computers 73 in an international banking network being shut down briefly at 74 midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition 75 from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown 76 is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for 77 a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the 78 crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to 79 the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the 80 last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 60 = 10.) 81 (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">IMDb entry.</a>) 82 (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) 83 </li> 84 <li> 85 One mustnt forget the 86 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo">trailer</a> 87 (2014; 2:23) for the movie <em>Daylight Saving</em>. 88 </li> 89 </ul> 90 <h2>TV episodes</h2> 91 <ul> 92 <li> 93 An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled The Mysterious 94 Cube, first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers 95 of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; 96 doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to 97 emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. 98 (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0506628/">IMDb entry</a>.) 99 </li> 100 <li> 101 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimes_of_Big_Ben">The Chimes 102 of Big Ben</a>, <em>The Prisoner</em>, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06. 103 Our protagonist tumbles to 104 the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing Big 105 Ben chiming on Polish local time. 106 (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0679185/">IMDb entry.</a>) 107 </li> 108 <li> 109 The Susie, <em>Seinfeld</em>, season 8, episode 15, NBC, 1997-02-13. 110 Kramer decides that daylight saving time 111 isnt coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. 112 </li> 113 <li> 114 20 Hours in America, <em>The West Wing</em>, season 4, episodes 12, 115 2002-09-25, contained a <a 116 href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc">scene</a> that 117 saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to 118 catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. 119 </li> 120 <li> 121 In what time zone would you find New York City? was a $200 question on 122 the 1999-11-13 United States airing of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</em>, 123 and In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time 124 zones? was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of 125 the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone 126 question should have been asked 2002-06-04. 127 </li> 128 <li> 129 A private jets mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois 130 premonition in the We Had a Dream episode of <em>Medium</em> 131 (originally aired 2007-02-28). 132 </li> 133 <li> 134 A criminals failure to account for the start of daylight saving is pivotal 135 in <a href="https://monk.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Monk_and_the_Rapper">Mr. Monk 136 and the Rapper</a> (first aired 2007-07-20). 137 </li> 138 <li> 139 In the <em>30 Rock</em> episode Anna Howard Shaw Day 140 (first broadcast 2010-02-11), 141 Jack Donaghys date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call 142 received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times. 143 </li> 144 <li> 145 In the Run by the Monkeys episode of <em>Da Vincis Inquest</em> 146 (first broadcast 2002-11-17), 147 a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set 148 their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire, 149 introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred. 150 </li> 151 <li> 152 In The Todd Couple episode of <em>Outsourced</em> (first aired 2011-02-10), 153 Manmeet sets up Valentines Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm; 154 since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, 155 hilarity ensues. 156 (Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show 157 proceeds as though its also mid-evening there.) 158 </li> 159 <li> 160 In the 14 Days to Go/T Minus... episode of 161 <em>You, Me and the Apocalypse</em> 162 (first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US), 163 the success of a mission to deal with a comet 164 hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time. 165 (In the US, 166 the episode first aired in the week before the switch to <abbr>DST</abbr>.) 167 </li> 168 <li> 169 The Lost Hour, <em>Eerie, Indiana</em>, episode 10, NBC, 1991-12-01. 170 Despite Indianas then-lack of <abbr>DST</abbr>, 171 Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences. 172 See <a 173 href="https://www.avclub.com/eerie-indiana-was-a-few-dimensions-ahead-of-its-time-1819833380"><em>Eerie, 174 Indiana</em> was a few dimensions ahead of its time</a>. 175 </li> 176 <li> 177 Time Tunnel, <em>The Adventures of Pete & Pete</em>, 178 season 2, episode 5, Nickelodeon, 1994-10-23. 179 The two Petes travel back in time an hour 180 on the day that <abbr>DST</abbr> ends. 181 </li> 182 <li> 183 King-Size Homer, <em>The Simpsons</em>, episode 135, Fox, 1995-11-05. 184 Homer, working from home, remarks 8:58, first 185 time Ive ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight 186 savings days. Lousy farmers. 187 </li> 188 <li> 189 <em>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver</em>, season 2, episode 5, 2015-03-08, 190 asked, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw">Daylight 191 Saving Time How Is This Still A Thing?</a> 192 </li> 193 <li> 194 Tracks, <em>The Good Wife</em>, season 7, episode 12, 195 CBS, 2016-01-17. 196 The applicability of a contract hinges on the 197 time zone associated with a video timestamp. 198 </li> 199 <li> 200 Justice, <em>Veep</em>, season 6, episode 4, HBO, 2017-05-07. 201 Jonahs inability to understand <abbr>DST</abbr> ends up impressing a wealthy 202 backer who sets him up for a 2020 presidential run. 203 </li> 204 <li> 205 In the Zone, <em>The Magic School Bus Rides Again</em>, season 3, 206 episode 3, Netflix, 2020-12-26. 207 During a New Years Eve journey, a software update glitch causes the 208 Magic School Bus and its passengers to transform every time they cross 209 time zone boundaries. The visit to the South Pole is especially tricky. 210 </li> 211 </ul> 212 <h2>Books, plays, and magazines</h2> 213 <ul> 214 <li> 215 Jules Verne, <em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em> 216 (<em>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</em>), 1873. 217 Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. 218 European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in 219 deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once 220 reading a paper. 221 Available versions include 222 <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103">an English 223 translation</a>, and 224 <a href="https://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j/">the original French</a> 225 with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition. 226 </li> 227 <li> 228 Nick Enright, <em>Daylight Saving</em>, 1989. 229 A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back. 230 </li> 231 <li> 232 Umberto Eco, 233 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Day_Before"><em>The 234 Island of the Day Before</em></a> 235 (<em>Lisola del giorno prima</em>), 1994. 236 ...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island 237 on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral 238 part in the novel. (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22) 239 </li> 240 <li> 241 John Dunning, <a 242 href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Two-OClock-Eastern-Wartime/John-Dunning/9781439171530"><em>Two 243 OClock, Eastern Wartime</em></a>, 2001. 244 Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio. 245 </li> 246 <li> 247 Surrealist artist Guy Billouts work Date Line 248 appeared on page 103 of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>. 249 </li> 250 <li> 251 Gloom, Gloom, Go Away by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of <em>Time</em> 252 magazines 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed 253 year-round <abbr>DST</abbr> as a way of lessening wintertime despair. 254 </li> 255 <li> 256 Cory Doctorow, <a 257 href="https://craphound.com/est/download/"><em>Eastern Standard Tribe</em></a>, 258 2004. The world splinters into tribes characterized by their timezones. 259 </li> 260 </ul> 261 <h2>Music</h2> 262 <ul> 263 <li> 264 Recordings of Save That Time, Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI: 265 <ul> 266 <li> 267 Karrin Allyson, <em>I Didnt Know About You</em> (1993), track 11, 3:44. 268 Concord Jazz CCD-4543. 269 Karrin Allyson, vocal; 270 Russ Long, piano; 271 Gerald Spaits, bass; 272 Todd Strait, drums. 273 CD notes additional lyric by Karrin Allyson; 274 arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson. 275 ADO , 276 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-didnt-know-about-you-mw0000618657">AMG</a> 277 , Penguin . 278 </li> 279 <li> 280 Kevin Mahogany, <em>Double Rainbow</em> (1993), track 3, 6:27. Enja ENJ-7097 2. 281 Kevin Mahogany, vocal; 282 Kenny Barron, piano; 283 Ray Drummond, bass; 284 Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone; 285 Lewis Nash, drums. 286 ADO , 287 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/double-rainbow-mw0000620371">AMG</a> 288 , Penguin . 289 </li> 290 <li> 291 Joe Williams, <em>Heres to Life</em> (1994), track 7, 3:58. 292 Telarc Jazz CD-83357. 293 Joe Williams, vocal; The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra. 294 Also in a 3-CD package Triple Play, Telarc CD-83461. 295 ADO , 296 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/heres-to-life-mw0000623648">AMG</a> 297 , Penguin . 298 </li> 299 <li> 300 Charles Fambrough, <em>Keeper of the Spirit</em> (1995), track 7, 7:07. 301 AudioQuest AQ-CD1033. 302 Charles Fambrough, bass; 303 Joel Levine, tenor recorder; 304 Edward Simon, piano; 305 Lenny White, drums; 306 Marion Simon, percussion. 307 ADO , 308 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/keeper-of-the-spirit-mw0000176559">AMG</a> 309 unrated, Penguin . 310 </ul> 311 </li> 312 <li> 313 Holly Cole Trio, Blame It On My Youth (1992). Manhattan CDP 7 97349 2, 37:45. 314 Holly Cole, voice; 315 Aaron Davis, piano; 316 David Piltch, string bass. 317 Lyrical reference to Eastern Standard Time in 318 Tom Waitss Purple Avenue. 319 ADO , 320 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/blame-it-on-my-youth-mw0000274303">AMG</a> 321 , Penguin unrated. 322 </li> 323 <li> 324 Milt Hinton, 325 <a href="https://chiaroscurojazz.org/catalog/old-man-time-2-cd-set/"><em>Old 326 Man Time</em></a> (1990). 327 Chiaroscuro CR(D) 310, 149:38 (two CDs). 328 Milt Hinton, bass; 329 Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet; 330 Al Grey, trombone; 331 Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate, 332 clarinet and saxophone; 333 John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith, 334 Ralph Sutton, piano; 335 Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar; 336 Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams, 337 drums; 338 Lionel Hampton, vibraphone; 339 Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal; 340 Buck Clayton, arrangements. 341 Tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time, 342 Sometimes Im Happy, 343 A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, 344 Four or Five Times, Nows the Time, 345 Time on My Hands, This Time Its Us, 346 and Good Time Charlie. 347 ADO , 348 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/old-man-time-mw0000269353">AMG</a> 349 , Penguin . 350 </li> 351 <li> 352 Alan Broadbent, <em>Pacific Standard Time</em> (1995). 353 Concord Jazz CCD-4664, 62:42. 354 Alan Broadbent, piano; 355 Putter Smith, Bass; 356 Frank Gibson, Jr., drums. 357 The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans. 358 ADO , 359 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/pacific-standard-time-mw0000645433">AMG</a> 360 , Penguin . 361 </li> 362 <li> 363 Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum, <em>Silence/Time Zones</em> (1996). 364 Black Lion BLCD 760221, 72:58. 365 Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones, 366 contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments; 367 Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments; 368 Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments; 369 Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer. 370 ADO , 371 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/silence-time-zones-mw0000595735">AMG</a> 372 . 373 </li> 374 <li> 375 Charles Gayle, <em>Time Zones</em> (2006). Tompkins Square TSQ2839, 49:06. 376 Charles Gayle, piano. 377 ADO , 378 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/time-zones-mw0000349642">AMG</a> 379 . 380 </li> 381 <li> 382 The Get Up Kids, <em>Eudora</em> (2001). Vagrant 357, 65:12. 383 Includes the song Central Standard Time. 384 Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information. 385 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/eudora-mw0000592063">AMG</a> 386 . 387 </li> 388 <li> 389 Coldplay, Clocks (2003). 390 Capitol 52608, 4:13. 391 Won the 2004 Record of the Year honor at the 392 Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin, 393 great-great-grandson of <abbr>DST</abbr> inventor William Willett. 394 The songs first line is Lights go out and I cant be saved. 395 </li> 396 <li> 397 Jaime Guevara, <a 398 href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfN4Fe_A50U">Qu 399 hora es</a> (1993), 3:04. 400 The song protested Sixto Hour in Ecuador 401 (19923). Its lyrics include Amaneca en mitad de la noche, los 402 guaguas iban a clase sin sol (It was dawning in the middle of the 403 night, the buses went to class without sun). 404 </li> 405 <li> 406 Irving Kahal and Harry Richman, 407 There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time (1931). 408 This musical standard was a No. 1 hit for Guy Lombardo 409 in 1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie 410 and many others. The phrase Moonlight saving time also appears in 411 the 1995 country song Not Enough Hours in the Night written by Aaron 412 Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug 413 Supernaw. 414 </li> 415 <li> 416 The Microscopic Septet, <em>Lobster Leaps In</em> (2008). 417 Cuneiform 272, 73:05. 418 Includes the song Twilight Time Zone. 419 ADO , 420 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/lobster-leaps-in-mw0000794929">AMG</a> 421 . 422 </li> 423 <li> 424 Bob Dylan, <em>The Times They Are a-Changin</em> (1964). 425 Columbia CK-8905, 45:36. 426 ADO , 427 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-times-they-a-changin-mw0000202344">AMG</a> 428 . 429 The title song is also available on Bob Dylans Greatest Hits 430 and The Essential Bob Dylan. 431 </li> 432 <li> 433 Luciana Souza, <em>Tide</em> (2009). Universal Jazz France B0012688-02, 42:31. 434 ADO , 435 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/tide-mw0000815692">AMG</a> 436 . 437 Includes the song Fire and Wood with the lyric 438 The clocks were turned back you remember/Think its still November. 439 </li> 440 <li> 441 Ken Nordine, <em>Youre Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters</em> (2005). 442 Geffen B0005171-02, 156:22. 443 ADO , 444 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/youre-getting-better-the-word-jazz-dot-masters-mw0000736197">AMG</a> 445 . 446 Includes the piece What Time Is It 447 (He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted). 448 </li> 449 <li> 450 Chicago, <em>Chicago Transit Authority</em> (1969). Columbia 64409, 1:16:20. 451 <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/chicago-transit-authority-mw0000189364">AMG</a> . 452 Includes the song Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?. 453 </li> 454 <li> 455 Emanuele Arciuli, 456 <a href="https://williamduckworth.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-curve-preludes"><em>The Time Curve Preludes</em></a> (2023). 457 Neuma 174, 44:46. 458 The title piece, composed by 459 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Duckworth_(composer)">William 460 Duckworth</a>, is the first work of postminimal music. 461 Unlike minimalism, it does not assume that the listener has plenty of time. 462 </li> 463 </ul> 464 <h2>Comics</h2> 465 <ul> 466 <li> 467 The webcomic <em>xkcd</em> has the strips 468 <a href="https://xkcd.com/673/">The Sun</a> (2009-12-09), 469 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1655/">Doomsday Clock</a> (2016-03-14) and 470 <a href="https://xkcd.com/2549/">Edge Cake</a> (2021-12-01), 471 along with the panels 472 <a href="https://xkcd.com/448/">Good Morning</a> (2008-07-11), 473 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1017/">Backward in Time</a> (2012-02-14), 474 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1061/">EST</a> (2012-05-28), 475 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1179/">ISO 8601</a> (2013-02-27), 476 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1335/">Now</a> (2014-02-26), 477 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1799/">Bad Map Projection: Time Zones</a> 478 (2017-02-15), 479 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1883/">Supervillain Plan</a> (2017-08-30), 480 <a href="https://xkcd.com/2050/">6/6 Time</a> (2018-09-24), 481 <a href="https://xkcd.com/2092/">Consensus New Year</a> (2018-12-31), 482 <a href="https://xkcd.com/2266/">Leap Smearing</a> (2020-02-10), 483 <a href="https://xkcd.com/2594/">Consensus Time</a> (2022-03-16), 484 <a href="https://xkcd.com/2846/">Daylight Saving Choice</a> (2023-10-25), 485 <a href="https://xkcd.com/2854/">Date Line</a> (2023-11-13), 486 and <a href="https://xkcd.com/2867/">DateTime</a> (2023-12-13). 487 The related book <em>What If?</em> has an entry 488 <a href="https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/">Leap Seconds</a> (2012-12-31). 489 </li> 490 <li> 491 Pig kills time in <em>Pearls Before Swine</em> (2016-11-06). 492 </li> 493 <li> 494 Stonehenge is abandoned in <em>Non Sequitur</em> (2017-03-12). 495 </li> 496 <li> 497 Caulfield proposes changing clocks just once a year in 498 <em>Frazz</em> (2023-12-31), 499 while Peter and Jason go multi-lingual and -zonal in 500 <a href="https://foxtrot.com/2023/12/31/toasty/"><em>FoxTrot</em> 501 (the same day)</a>. 502 </li> 503 <li> 504 Peppermint Patty: What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie? 505 <br> 506 Marcie: I promise therell be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact, 507 its already tomorrow in Australia! 508 <br> 509 (Charles M. Schulz, <em>Peanuts</em>, 1980-06-13) 510 </li> 511 </ul> 512 <h2>Jokes</h2> 513 <ul> 514 <li> 515 The idea behind daylight saving time was first proposed as a joke by 516 Benjamin Franklin. To enforce it, he suggested, Every 517 morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all the bells in every church 518 be set ringing; and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in 519 every street, to wake the sluggards effectually, and make them open 520 their eyes to see their true interest. All the difficulty will be in 521 the first two or three days: after which the reformation will be as 522 natural and easy as the present irregularity; for, <em>ce nest que le 523 premier pas qui cote</em>. 524 <a href="https://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html">Franklins 525 joke</a> was first published on 1784-04-26 by the 526 <em>Journal de Paris</em> as <a 527 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin-Benjamin-Journal-de-Paris-1784.jpg">an 528 anonymous letter translated into French</a>. 529 </li> 530 <li> 531 Weve been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. 532 Now thats pretty near 100 years, daylight saving. 533 (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in <em>Animal Crackers</em>, 1930, 534 as noted by Will Fitzgerald) 535 </li> 536 <li> 537 BRADY. ...[Bishop Usher] determined that the Lord began the Creation 538 on the 23rd of October in the Year 4,004 B.C. at uh, 9 A.M.! 539 <br> 540 DRUMMOND. That Eastern Standard Time? (<em>Laughter.</em>) Or Rocky Mountain 541 Time? (<em>More laughter.</em>) It wasnt daylight-saving time, was it? Because 542 the Lord didnt make the sun until the fourth day! 543 <br> 544 (From the play <em>Inherit the Wind</em> by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, 545 filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as 546 Brady, and several other times. Thanks to Mark Brader.) 547 </li> 548 <li> 549 Good news. 550 What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round? 551 (Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a 552 May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series <em>Baywatch</em>) 553 </li> 554 <li> 555 A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you 556 cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing 557 theyre safe. Unfortunately, this belief like so many myths, such as that 558 theres a reason for Daylight Saving Time is false. 559 (Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02) 560 </li> 561 <li> 562 I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day 563 when you turn the clocks ahead. 564 (Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10) 565 </li> 566 <li> 567 Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time? 568 (Sahjhan to Lilah in dialog from the Loyalty episode of <em>Angel</em>, 569 originally aired 2002-02-25) 570 </li> 571 <li> 572 I thought you said Tulsa was a three-hour flight. 573 Well, youre forgetting about the time difference. 574 (Joey and Chandler in dialog from the 575 episode of <em>Friends</em> entitled The One With 576 Rachels Phone Number, originally aired 2002-12-05) 577 </li> 578 <li> 579 Is that a pertinent fact, 580 or are you just trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones? 581 (Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane to Roz 582 from the episode of <em>Frasier</em> entitled The Kid, 583 originally aired 1997-11-04) 584 </li> 585 <li> 586 I put myself and my staff through this crazy, huge ordeal, all because 587 I refused to go on at midnight, okay? And so I work, you know, and 588 then I get this job at eleven, supposed to be a big deal. Then 589 yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now its basically midnight. 590 (Conan OBrien on the 2010-11-08 premiere of <em>Conan</em>) 591 </li> 592 <li> 593 The best method, I told folks, was to hang a large clock high on a 594 barn wall where all the cows could see it. If you have Holsteins, you 595 will need to use an analog clock. (Jerry Nelson, <a 596 href="https://www.agriculture.com/family/farm-humor/how-to-adjust-dairy-cows-to-daylight-savings-time">How 597 to adjust dairy cows to daylight saving time</a>, 598 <em>Successful Farming</em>, 2017-10-09) 599 </li> 600 <li> 601 And now, driving to California, I find that I must enter a password 602 in order to change the time zone on my laptop clock. Evidently, 603 someone is out to mess up my schedule and my clock must be secured. 604 (Garrison Keillor, 605 <a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/weve-never-been-here-before/">Weve 606 never been here before</a>, 2017-08-22) 607 </li> 608 <li> 609 Well, in my time zone thats all the time I have, 610 but maybe in your time zone I havent finished yet. So stay tuned! 611 (Goldie Hawn, <em>Rowan & Martins Laugh-In</em> No. 65, 1970-03-09) 612 </li> 613 </ul> 614 <h2>See also</h2> 615 <ul> 616 <li><a href="tz-link.html">Time zone and daylight saving time data</a></li> 617 </ul> 618 619 <footer> 620 <hr> 621 This web page is in the public domain, so clarified as of 622 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 623 <br> 624 Please send corrections to this web page to the 625 <a href="mailto:tz (a] iana.org">time zone mailing list</a>. 626 The mailing list and its archives are public, 627 so please do not send confidential information. 628 </footer> 629 </body> 630 </html> 631