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1<!DOCTYPE html> 2<html lang="en"> 3<head> 4<meta charset="UTF-8"> 5<title>Time and the Arts</title> 6</head> 7<body> 8<h1>Time and the Arts</h1> 9<h2>Documentaries</h2> 10<ul> 11<li> 12“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4">Daylight 13Saving Time Explained</a>” (2011; 6:39) lightly covers daylight saving 14time’s theory, history, pros and cons. Among other things, it explains 15Arizona’s daylight-saving enclaves quite well. 16</li> 17<li> 18“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY">The Problem 19with Time & Timezones – Computerphile</a>” (2013; 10:12) delves 20into problems that programmers have with timekeeping. 21</li> 22<li> 23“<a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/28375932.html">All The Time 24In The World: Explaining The Mysteries Of Time Zones</a>” (2017; 2:15) 25briefly says why France has more time zones than Russia. 26</li> 27<li> 28“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRz-Dl60Lfc">Why Denmark used to be 29.04 seconds behind the world</a>” (2019; 6:29) explains why the United Kingdom 30– and, once, Denmark – haven’t always exactly followed their own 31laws about civil time. 32</li> 33<li> 34“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzsBMUiGGQ">How Daylight Savings 35Broke this $24 Million Building</a>” (2025; 5:01) describes the system of 36mirrors used at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance to ensure the sun’s light 37still hits at the “correct” ceremonial hour to commemorate the Armistice which 38ended World War I. 39</li> 40<li> 41“About Time” (1962; 59 minutes) is part of the 42Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter, Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne. 43Its advisor was Richard Feynman, and it was voiced by Mel Blanc. 44(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154110/">IMDb entry</a>.) 45</li> 46</ul> 47<h2>Movies</h2> 48<ul> 49<li> 50In the 1946 movie <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em> 51(U.S. title <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>) 52there is a reference to British Double Summer Time. 53The time does not play a large part in the plot; 54it’s just a passing reference to the time when one of the 55characters was supposed to have died (but didn’t). 56(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">IMDb entry.</a>) 57(Dave Cantor) 58</li> 59<li> 60The 1953 railway comedy movie <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> includes a 61play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine’s wife wants 62him to leave the pub and asks him, “Do you know what time it is?” 63And he, happy where he is, replies: “Yes, my love. Summer double time.” 64(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">IMDb entry.</a>) 65(Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) 66</li> 67<li> 68The premise of the 1999 caper movie <em>Entrapment</em> involves computers 69in an international banking network being shut down briefly at 70midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition 71from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown 72is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for 73a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the 74crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to 75the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the 76last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 × 60 = 10.) 77(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">IMDb entry.</a>) 78(Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) 79</li> 80<li> 81One mustn’t forget the 82<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo">trailer</a> 83(2014; 2:23) for the movie <em>Daylight Saving</em>. 84</li> 85</ul> 86<h2>TV episodes</h2> 87<ul> 88<li> 89An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled “The Mysterious 90Cube”, first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers 91of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; 92doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to 93emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. 94(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0506628/">IMDb entry</a>.) 95</li> 96<li> 97“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimes_of_Big_Ben">The Chimes 98of Big Ben</a>”, <em>The Prisoner</em>, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06. 99Our protagonist tumbles to 100the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing Big 101Ben chiming on Polish local time. 102(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0679185/">IMDb entry.</a>) 103</li> 104<li> 105“The Susie”, <em>Seinfeld</em>, season 8, episode 15, NBC, 1997-02-13. 106Kramer decides that daylight saving time 107isn’t coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. 108</li> 109<li> 110“20 Hours in America”, <em>The West Wing</em>, season 4, episodes 1–2, 1112002-09-25, contained a <a 112href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc">scene</a> that 113saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to 114catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. 115</li> 116<li> 117“In what time zone would you find New York City?” was a $200 question on 118the 1999-11-13 United States airing of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</em>, 119and “In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time 120zones?” was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of 121the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone 122question should have been asked 2002-06-04. 123</li> 124<li> 125A private jet’s mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois’ 126premonition in the “We Had a Dream” episode of <em>Medium</em> 127(originally aired 2007-02-28). 128</li> 129<li> 130A criminal’s failure to account for the start of daylight saving is pivotal 131in “<a href="https://monk.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Monk_and_the_Rapper">Mr. Monk 132and the Rapper</a>” (first aired 2007-07-20). 133</li> 134<li> 135In the <em>30 Rock</em> episode “Anna Howard Shaw Day” 136(first broadcast 2010-02-11), 137Jack Donaghy’s date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call 138received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times. 139</li> 140<li> 141In the “Run by the Monkeys” episode of <em>Da Vinci’s Inquest</em> 142(first broadcast 2002-11-17), 143a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set 144their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire, 145introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred. 146</li> 147<li> 148In “The Todd Couple” episode of <em>Outsourced</em> (first aired 2011-02-10), 149Manmeet sets up Valentine’s Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm; 150since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, 151hilarity ensues. 152(Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show 153proceeds as though it’s also mid-evening there.) 154</li> 155<li> 156In the “14 Days to Go”/“T Minus...” episode of 157<em>You, Me and the Apocalypse</em> 158(first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US), 159the success of a mission to deal with a comet 160hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time. 161(In the US, 162the episode first aired in the week before the switch to <abbr>DST</abbr>.) 163</li> 164<li> 165“The Lost Hour”, <em>Eerie, Indiana</em>, episode 10, NBC, 1991-12-01. 166Despite Indiana’s then-lack of <abbr>DST</abbr>, 167Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences. 168See “<a 169href="https://www.avclub.com/eerie-indiana-was-a-few-dimensions-ahead-of-its-time-1819833380"><em>Eerie, 170Indiana</em> was a few dimensions ahead of its time</a>”. 171</li> 172<li> 173“Time Tunnel”, <em>The Adventures of Pete & Pete</em>, 174season 2, episode 5, Nickelodeon, 1994-10-23. 175The two Petes travel back in time an hour 176on the day that <abbr>DST</abbr> ends. 177</li> 178<li> 179“King-Size Homer”, <em>The Simpsons</em>, episode 135, Fox, 1995-11-05. 180Homer, working from home, remarks “8:58, first 181time I’ve ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight 182savings days. Lousy farmers.” 183</li> 184<li> 185<em>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver</em>, season 2, episode 5, 2015-03-08, 186asked, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw">Daylight 187Saving Time – How Is This Still A Thing?</a>” 188</li> 189<li> 190“Tracks”, <em>The Good Wife</em>, season 7, episode 12, 191CBS, 2016-01-17. 192The applicability of a contract hinges on the 193time zone associated with a video timestamp. 194</li> 195<li> 196“Justice”, <em>Veep</em>, season 6, episode 4, HBO, 2017-05-07. 197Jonah’s inability to understand <abbr>DST</abbr> ends up impressing a wealthy 198backer who sets him up for a 2020 presidential run. 199</li> 200</ul> 201<h2>Books, plays, and magazines</h2> 202<ul> 203<li> 204Jules Verne, <em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em> 205(<em>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</em>), 1873. 206Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. 207European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in 208deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once 209reading a paper. 210Available versions include 211<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103">an English 212translation</a>, and 213<a href="https://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">the original French</a> 214“with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition”. 215</li> 216<li> 217Nick Enright, <em>Daylight Saving</em>, 1989. 218A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back. 219</li> 220<li> 221Umberto Eco, 222<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Day_Before"><em>The 223Island of the Day Before</em></a> 224(<em>L’isola del giorno prima</em>), 1994. 225“...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island 226on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral 227part in the novel.” (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22) 228</li> 229<li> 230John Dunning, <a 231href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Two-OClock-Eastern-Wartime/John-Dunning/9781439171530"><em>Two 232O’Clock, Eastern Wartime</em></a>, 2001. 233Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio. 234</li> 235<li> 236Surrealist artist Guy Billout’s work “Date Line” 237appeared on page 103 of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>. 238</li> 239<li> 240“Gloom, Gloom, Go Away” by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of <em>Time</em> 241magazine’s 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed 242year-round <abbr>DST</abbr> as a way of lessening wintertime despair. 243</li> 244<li> 245Cory Doctorow, <a 246href="https://craphound.com/est/download/"><em>Eastern Standard Tribe</em></a>, 2472004. The world splinters into tribes characterized by their timezones. 248</li> 249</ul> 250<h2>Music</h2> 251<ul> 252<li> 253Recordings of “Save That Time”, Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI: 254<ul> 255<li> 256Karrin Allyson, <em>I Didn’t Know About You</em> (1993), track 11, 3:44. 257Concord Jazz CCD-4543. 258Karrin Allyson, vocal; 259Russ Long, piano; 260Gerald Spaits, bass; 261Todd Strait, drums. 262CD notes “additional lyric by Karrin Allyson; 263arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson”. 264ADO ★, 265<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-didnt-know-about-you-mw0000618657">AMG</a> 266★★★★, Penguin ★★★⯪. 267</li> 268<li> 269Kevin Mahogany, <em>Double Rainbow</em> (1993), track 3, 6:27. Enja ENJ-7097 2. 270Kevin Mahogany, vocal; 271Kenny Barron, piano; 272Ray Drummond, bass; 273Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone; 274Lewis Nash, drums. 275ADO ★⯪, 276<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/double-rainbow-mw0000620371">AMG</a> 277★★★, Penguin ★★★. 278</li> 279<li> 280Joe Williams, <em>Here’s to Life</em> (1994), track 7, 3:58. 281Telarc Jazz CD-83357. 282Joe Williams, vocal; The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra. 283Also in a 3-CD package “Triple Play”, Telarc CD-83461. 284ADO •, 285<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/heres-to-life-mw0000623648">AMG</a> 286★★, Penguin ★★★. 287</li> 288<li> 289Charles Fambrough, <em>Keeper of the Spirit</em> (1995), track 7, 7:07. 290AudioQuest AQ-CD1033. 291Charles Fambrough, bass; 292Joel Levine, tenor recorder; 293Edward Simon, piano; 294Lenny White, drums; 295Marion Simon, percussion. 296ADO ★, 297<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/keeper-of-the-spirit-mw0000176559">AMG</a> 298unrated, Penguin ★★★. 299</ul> 300</li> 301<li> 302Holly Cole Trio, Blame It On My Youth (1992). Manhattan CDP 7 97349 2, 37:45. 303Holly Cole, voice; 304Aaron Davis, piano; 305David Piltch, string bass. 306Lyrical reference to “Eastern Standard Time” in 307Tom Waits’s “Purple Avenue”. 308ADO ★★⯪, 309<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/blame-it-on-my-youth-mw0000274303">AMG</a> 310★★★, Penguin unrated. 311</li> 312<li> 313Milt Hinton, 314<a href="https://chiaroscurojazz.org/catalog/old-man-time-2-cd-set/"><em>Old 315Man Time</em></a> (1990). 316Chiaroscuro CR(D) 310, 149:38 (two CDs). 317Milt Hinton, bass; 318Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet; 319Al Grey, trombone; 320Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate, 321clarinet and saxophone; 322John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith, 323Ralph Sutton, piano; 324Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar; 325Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams, 326drums; 327Lionel Hampton, vibraphone; 328Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal; 329Buck Clayton, arrangements. 330Tunes include “Old Man Time”, “Time After Time”, 331“Sometimes I’m Happy”, 332“A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”, 333“Four or Five Times”, “Now’s the Time”, 334“Time on My Hands”, “This Time It’s Us”, 335and “Good Time Charlie”. 336ADO ★★★, 337<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/old-man-time-mw0000269353">AMG</a> 338★★★★⯪, Penguin ★★★. 339</li> 340<li> 341Alan Broadbent, <em>Pacific Standard Time</em> (1995). 342Concord Jazz CCD-4664, 62:42. 343Alan Broadbent, piano; 344Putter Smith, Bass; 345Frank Gibson, Jr., drums. 346The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans. 347ADO ★, 348<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/pacific-standard-time-mw0000645433">AMG</a> 349★★★★, Penguin ★★★⯪. 350</li> 351<li> 352Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum, <em>Silence/Time Zones</em> (1996). 353Black Lion BLCD 760221, 72:58. 354Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones, 355contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments; 356Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments; 357Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments; 358Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer. 359ADO •, 360<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/silence-time-zones-mw0000595735">AMG</a> 361★★★★. 362</li> 363<li> 364Charles Gayle, <em>Time Zones</em> (2006). Tompkins Square TSQ2839, 49:06. 365Charles Gayle, piano. 366ADO ★, 367<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/time-zones-mw0000349642">AMG</a> 368★★★★⯪. 369</li> 370<li> 371The Get Up Kids, <em>Eudora</em> (2001). Vagrant 357, 65:12. 372Includes the song “Central Standard Time”. 373Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information. 374<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/eudora-mw0000592063">AMG</a> 375★★⯪. 376</li> 377<li> 378Coldplay, “Clocks” (2003). 379Capitol 52608, 4:13. 380Won the 2004 Record of the Year honor at the 381Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin, 382great-great-grandson of <abbr>DST</abbr> inventor William Willett. 383The song’s first line is “Lights go out and I can’t be saved”. 384</li> 385<li> 386Jaime Guevara, “<a 387href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfN4Fe_A50U">Qué 388hora es</a>” (1993), 3:04. 389The song protested “Sixto Hour” in Ecuador 390(1992–3). Its lyrics include “Amanecía en mitad de la noche, los 391guaguas iban a clase sin sol” (“It was dawning in the middle of the 392night, the buses went to class without sun”). 393</li> 394<li> 395Irving Kahal and Harry Richman, 396“There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time” (1931). 397This musical standard was a No. 1 hit for Guy Lombardo 398in 1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie 399and many others. The phrase “Moonlight saving time” also appears in 400the 1995 country song “Not Enough Hours in the Night” written by Aaron 401Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug 402Supernaw. 403</li> 404<li> 405The Microscopic Septet, <em>Lobster Leaps In</em> (2008). 406Cuneiform 272, 73:05. 407Includes the song “Twilight Time Zone”. 408ADO ★★, 409<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/lobster-leaps-in-mw0000794929">AMG</a> 410★★★⯪. 411</li> 412<li> 413Bob Dylan, <em>The Times They Are a-Changin’</em> (1964). 414Columbia CK-8905, 45:36. 415ADO ★⯪, 416<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-times-they-a-changin-mw0000202344">AMG</a> 417★★★★⯪. 418The title song is also available on “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits” 419and “The Essential Bob Dylan”. 420</li> 421<li> 422Luciana Souza, <em>Tide</em> (2009). Universal Jazz France B0012688-02, 42:31. 423ADO ★★⯪, 424<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/tide-mw0000815692">AMG</a> 425★★★⯪. 426Includes the song “Fire and Wood” with the lyric 427“The clocks were turned back you remember/Think it’s still November.” 428</li> 429<li> 430Ken Nordine, <em>You’re Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters</em> (2005). 431Geffen B0005171-02, 156:22. 432ADO ★, 433<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/youre-getting-better-the-word-jazz-dot-masters-mw0000736197">AMG</a> 434★★★★⯪. 435Includes the piece “What Time Is It” 436(“He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted”). 437</li> 438<li> 439Chicago, <em>Chicago Transit Authority</em> (1969). Columbia 64409, 1:16:20. 440<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/chicago-transit-authority-mw0000189364">AMG</a> ★★★★. 441Includes the song “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?”. 442</li> 443<li> 444Emanuele Arciuli, 445<a href="https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/william-duckworth-the-time-curve-preludes"><em>The Time Curve Preludes</em></a> (2023). 446Neuma 174, 44:46. 447The title piece, composed by 448<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Duckworth_(composer)">William 449Duckworth</a>, is the first work of postminimal music. 450Unlike minimalism, it does not assume that the listener has plenty of time. 451</li> 452</ul> 453<h2>Comics</h2> 454<ul> 455<li> 456The webcomic <em>xkcd</em> has the strips 457“<a href="https://xkcd.com/673/">The Sun</a>” (2009-12-09), 458“<a href="https://xkcd.com/1655/">Doomsday Clock</a>” (2016-03-14) and 459“<a href="https://xkcd.com/2549/">Edge Cake</a>” (2021-12-01), 460along with the panels 461“<a href="https://xkcd.com/448/">Good Morning</a>” (2008-07-11), 462“<a href="https://xkcd.com/1017/">Backward in Time</a>” (2012-02-14), 463“<a href="https://xkcd.com/1061/">EST</a>” (2012-05-28), 464“<a href="https://xkcd.com/1179/">ISO 8601</a>” (2013-02-27), 465“<a href="https://xkcd.com/1335/">Now</a>” (2014-02-26), 466“<a href="https://xkcd.com/1799/">Bad Map Projection: Time Zones</a>” 467(2017-02-15), 468“<a href="https://xkcd.com/1883/">Supervillain Plan</a>” (2017-08-30), 469“<a href="https://xkcd.com/2050/">6/6 Time</a>” (2018-09-24), 470“<a href="https://xkcd.com/2092/">Consensus New Year</a>” (2018-12-31), 471“<a href="https://xkcd.com/2266/">Leap Smearing</a>” (2020-02-10), 472“<a href="https://xkcd.com/2594/">Consensus Time</a>” (2022-03-16), 473“<a href="https://xkcd.com/2846/">Daylight Saving Choice</a>” (2023-10-25), 474“<a href="https://xkcd.com/2854/">Date Line</a>” (2023-11-13), 475and “<a href="https://xkcd.com/2867/">DateTime</a>” (2023-12-13). 476The related book <em>What If?</em> has an entry 477“<a href="https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/">Leap Seconds</a>” (2012-12-31). 478</li> 479<li> 480Pig kills time in <a 481href="https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/11/06"><em>Pearls 482Before Swine</em> (2016-11-06)</a>. 483</li> 484<li> 485Stonehenge is abandoned in <a 486href="https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2017/03/12"><em>Non Sequitur</em> 487(2017-03-12)</a>. 488</li> 489<li> 490Caulfield proposes changing clocks just once a year in 491<a href="https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2023/12/31"><em>Frazz</em> 492(2023-12-31)</a>, while Peter and Jason go multi-lingual and -zonal in 493<a href="https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2023/12/31"><em>FoxTrot</em> 494(the same day)</a>. 495</li> 496<li> 497Peppermint Patty: “What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?” 498<br> 499Marcie: “I promise there’ll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact, 500it’s already tomorrow in Australia!” 501<br> 502(Charles M. Schulz, 503<a href="https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13"><em>Peanuts</em>, 5041980-06-13</a>) 505</li> 506</ul> 507<h2>Jokes</h2> 508<ul> 509<li> 510The idea behind daylight saving time was first proposed as a joke by 511Benjamin Franklin. To enforce it, he suggested, “Every 512morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all the bells in every church 513be set ringing; and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in 514every street, to wake the sluggards effectually, and make them open 515their eyes to see their true interest. All the difficulty will be in 516the first two or three days: after which the reformation will be as 517natural and easy as the present irregularity; for, <em>ce n’est que le 518premier pas qui coûte</em>.” 519<a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html">Franklin’s 520joke</a> was first published on 1784-04-26 by the 521<em>Journal de Paris</em> as <a 522href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin-Benjamin-Journal-de-Paris-1784.jpg">an 523anonymous letter translated into French</a>. 524</li> 525<li> 526“We’ve been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. 527Now that’s pretty near 100 years, daylight saving.” 528(Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in <em>Animal Crackers</em>, 1930, 529as noted by Will Fitzgerald) 530</li> 531<li> 532BRADY. ...[Bishop Usher] determined that the Lord began the Creation 533on the 23rd of October in the Year 4,004 B.C. at – uh, 9 A.M.! 534<br> 535DRUMMOND. That Eastern Standard Time? (<em>Laughter.</em>) Or Rocky Mountain 536Time? (<em>More laughter.</em>) It wasn’t daylight-saving time, was it? Because 537the Lord didn’t make the sun until the fourth day! 538<br> 539(From the play <em>Inherit the Wind</em> by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, 540filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as 541Brady, and several other times. Thanks to Mark Brader.) 542</li> 543<li> 544“Good news.” 545“What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?” 546(Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a 547May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series <em>Baywatch</em>) 548</li> 549<li> 550“A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you 551cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing 552they’re safe. Unfortunately, this belief – like so many myths, such as that 553there’s a reason for ‘Daylight Saving Time’ – is false.” 554(Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02) 555</li> 556<li> 557“I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day 558when you turn the clocks ahead.” 559(Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10) 560</li> 561<li> 562“Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?” 563(“Sahjhan” to “Lilah” in dialog from the “Loyalty” episode of <em>Angel</em>, 564originally aired 2002-02-25) 565</li> 566<li> 567“I thought you said Tulsa was a three-hour flight.” 568“Well, you’re forgetting about the time difference.” 569(“Joey” and “Chandler” in dialog from the 570episode of <em>Friends</em> entitled “The One With 571Rachel’s Phone Number”, originally aired 2002-12-05) 572</li> 573<li> 574“Is that a pertinent fact, 575or are you just trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?” 576(Kelsey Grammer as “Frasier Crane” to “Roz” 577from the episode of <em>Frasier</em> entitled “The Kid”, 578originally aired 1997-11-04) 579</li> 580<li> 581“I put myself and my staff through this crazy, huge ordeal, all because 582I refused to go on at midnight, okay? And so I work, you know, and 583then I get this job at eleven, supposed to be a big deal. Then 584yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now it’s basically midnight.” 585(Conan O’Brien on the 2010-11-08 premiere of <em>Conan</em>) 586</li> 587<li> 588“The best method, I told folks, was to hang a large clock high on a 589barn wall where all the cows could see it. If you have Holsteins, you 590will need to use an analog clock.” (Jerry Nelson, “<a 591href="http://www.agriculture.com/family/farm-humor/how-to-adjust-dairy-cows-to-daylight-savings-time">How 592to adjust dairy cows to daylight saving time</a>”, 593<em>Successful Farming</em>, 2017-10-09) 594</li> 595<li> 596“And now, driving to California, I find that I must enter a password 597in order to change the time zone on my laptop clock. Evidently, 598someone is out to mess up my schedule and my clock must be secured.” 599(Garrison Keillor, 600“<a href="http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/weve-never-been-here-before/">We’ve 601never been here before</a>”, 2017-08-22) 602</li> 603<li> 604“Well, in my time zone that’s all the time I have, 605but maybe in your time zone I haven’t finished yet. So stay tuned!” 606(Goldie Hawn, <em>Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In</em> No. 65, 1970-03-09) 607</li> 608</ul> 609<h2>See also</h2> 610<ul> 611<li><a href="tz-link.html">Time Zone and Daylight Saving 612Time Data</a></li> 613</ul> 614 615<footer> 616<hr> 617This web page is in the public domain, so clarified as of 6182009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 619<br> 620Please send corrections to this web page to the 621<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org">time zone mailing list</a>. 622The mailing list and its archives are public, 623so please do not send confidential information. 624</footer> 625</body> 626</html> 627
