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  10 <h1>Time and the Arts</h1>
  11 <p>
  12 This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
  13 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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  15 <p>
  16 Please send corrections to this web page to the
  17 <a href="mailto:tz@iana.org">time zone mailing list</a>.</p>
  18 <p>
  19 See also <a href="tz-link.htm">Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</a>.</p>
  20 <hr>
  21 <p>
  22 Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:</p>
  23 <table>
  24 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Karrin Allyson</td></tr>
  25 <tr><td>CD</td><td>I Didn't Know About You</td></tr>
  26 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr>
  27 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr>
  28 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4543</td></tr>
  29 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:44</td></tr>
  30 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Karrin Allyson, vocal;
  31 Russ Long, piano;
  32 Gerald Spaits, bass;
  33 Todd Strait, drums</td></tr>
  34 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson;
  35 arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson"</td></tr>
  36 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
  37 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=A1fdovw9ta92k">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
  38 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
  39 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
  40 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Kevin Mahogany</td></tr>
  41 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Double Rainbow</td></tr>
  42 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr>
  43 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Enja Records</td></tr>
  44 <tr><td>ID</td><td>ENJ-7097 2</td></tr>
  45 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>6:27</td></tr>
  46 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Kevin Mahogany, vocal;
  47 Kenny Barron, piano;
  48 Ray Drummond, bass;
  49 Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone;
  50 Lewis Nash, drums</td></tr>
  51 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr>
  52 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=Akikbikzjbb19">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
  53 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
  54 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
  55 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Joe Williams</td></tr>
  56 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Here's to Life</td></tr>
  57 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr>
  58 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Telarc International Corporation</td></tr>
  59 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CD-83357</td></tr>
  60 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:58</td></tr>
  61 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Joe Williams, vocal
  62 The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra</td></tr>
  63 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from
  64 Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461)</td></tr>
  65 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr>
  66 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=Amyyvad6kt8w1">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
  67 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
  68 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
  69 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Fambrough</td></tr>
  70 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Keeper of the Spirit</td></tr>
  71 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr>
  72 <tr><td>Label</td><td>AudioQuest Music</td></tr>
  73 <tr><td>ID</td><td>AQ-CD1033</td></tr>
  74 <tr><td>Track Time</td><td>7:07</td></tr>
  75 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Fambrough, bass;
  76 Joel Levine, tenor recorder;
  77 Edward Simon, piano;
  78 Lenny White, drums;
  79 Marion Simon, percussion</td></tr>
  80 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>On-line information and samples available at
  81 <a href="http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html">http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html</a></td></tr>
  82 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
  83 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=A5rkcikcjbb89">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr>
  84 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
  85 </table>
  86 <hr>
  87 <p>Also of note:</p>
  88 <table>
  89 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Holly Cole Trio</td></tr>
  90 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Blame It On My Youth</td></tr>
  91 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1992</td></tr>
  92 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Manhattan</td></tr>
  93 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CDP 7 97349 2</td></tr>
  94 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>37:45</td></tr>
  95 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Holly Cole, voice;
  96 Aaron Davis, piano;
  97 David Piltch, string bass</td></tr>
  98 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in
  99 Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"</td></tr>
 100 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
 101 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=A3a9ds37ya3dg">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
 102 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>unrated</td></tr>
 103 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 104 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Milt Hinton</td></tr>
 105 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Old Man Time</td></tr>
 106 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1990</td></tr>
 107 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Chiaroscuro</td></tr>
 108 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CR(D) 310</td></tr>
 109 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>149:38 (two CDs)</td></tr>
 110 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Milt Hinton, bass;
 111 Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet;
 112 Al Grey, trombone;
 113 Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate,
 114 clarinet and saxophone;
 115 John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith,
 116 Ralph Sutton, piano;
 117 Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar;
 118 Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams,
 119 drums;
 120 Lionel Hampton, vibraphone;
 121 Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal;
 122 Buck Clayton, arrangements</td></tr>
 123 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time,
 124 Sometimes I'm Happy,
 125 A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,
 126 Four or Five Times, Now's the Time,
 127 Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us,
 128 and Good Time Charlie
 129 On-line samples available at
 130 <a href="http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php4?albumid=49">http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php3?albumid=49</a></td></tr>
 131 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
 132 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=A1cbyxdab8ola">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
 133 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
 134 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 135 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Alan Broadbent</td></tr>
 136 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Pacific Standard Time</td></tr>
 137 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr>
 138 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr>
 139 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4664</td></tr>
 140 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>62:42</td></tr>
 141 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Alan Broadbent, piano;
 142 Putter Smith, Bass;
 143 Frank Gibson, Jr., drums</td></tr>
 144 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans</td></tr>
 145 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
 146 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=Asl8zefuk8gfo">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
 147 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
 148 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 149 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum</td></tr>
 150 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Silence/Time Zones</td></tr>
 151 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1996</td></tr>
 152 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Black Lion</td></tr>
 153 <tr><td>ID</td><td>BLCD 760221</td></tr>
 154 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>72:58</td></tr>
 155 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones,
 156 contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments;
 157 Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments;
 158 Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments;
 159 Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer</td></tr>
 160 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr>
 161 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=A5bkvu3xjan1k">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr>
 162 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 163 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Gayle</td></tr>
 164 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Time Zones</td></tr>
 165 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2006</td></tr>
 166 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Tompkins Square</td></tr>
 167 <tr><td>ID</td><td>TSQ2839</td></tr>
 168 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>49:06</td></tr>
 169 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Gayle, piano</td></tr>
 170 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
 171 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=10:13rc28vw054a">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
 172 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 173 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Get Up Kids</td></tr>
 174 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Eudora</td></tr>
 175 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr>
 176 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Vagrant</td></tr>
 177 <tr><td>ID</td><td>357</td></tr>
 178 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>65:12</td></tr>
 179 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Central Standard Time." Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information.</td></tr>
 180 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=10:7ddovwvla9xk">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
 181 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 182
 183 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Coldplay</td></tr>
 184 <tr><td>Song</td><td>Clocks</td></tr>
 185 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2003</td></tr>
 186 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Capitol Records</td></tr>
 187 <tr><td>ID</td><td>52608</td></tr>
 188 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>4:13</td></tr>
 189 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Won the 2004 Record of the Year honor at the
 190 Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin,
 191 great-great-grandson of DST inventor William Willett. The song's first
 192 line is "Lights go out and I can't be saved".</td></tr>
 193 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 194
 195 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Irving Kahal and Harry Richman</td></tr>
 196 <tr><td>Song</td><td>There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time</td></tr>
 197 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1931</td>
 198 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>This musical standard was a #1 hit for Guy Lombardo
 199 in 1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie
 200 and many others. The phrase "Moonlight saving time" also appears in
 201 the 1995 country song "Not Enough Hours in the Night" written by Aaron
 202 Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug
 203 Supernaw.</td></tr>
 204 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 205
 206 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Microscopic Septet</td></tr>
 207 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Lobster Leaps In</td></tr>
 208 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2008</td></tr>
 209 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Cuneiform</td></tr>
 210 <tr><td>ID</td><td>272</td></tr>
 211 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>73:05</td></tr>
 212 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Twilight Time Zone."</td></tr>
 213 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fpxzykldje">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
 214 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
 215
 216 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 217
 218 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Bob Dylan</td></tr>
 219 <tr><td>CD</td><td>The Time They Are A-Changin'</td></tr>
 220 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1964</td></tr>
 221 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Columbia</td></tr>
 222 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CK-8905</td></tr>
 223 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>45:36</td></tr>
 224 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifqxqt5ld0e">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
 225 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr>
 226 <tr><td>Notes<td>The title song is also available on "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" and "The Essential Bob Dylan."</td></tr>
 227 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 228
 229 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Luciana Souza</td></tr>
 230 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Tide</td></tr>
 231 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2009</td></tr>
 232 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Universal Jazz France</td></tr>
 233 <tr><td>ID</td><td>B0012688-02</td></tr>
 234 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>42:31</td></tr>
 235 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3bftxzw0ldhe"</a>AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
 236 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
 237 <tr><td>Notes<td>Includes the song "Fire and Wood" with the lyric
 238 "The clocks were turned back you remeber/Think it's still November."
 239 </td></tr>
 240 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 241 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Ken Nordine</td></tr>
 242 <tr><td>CD</td><td>You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters</td></tr>
 243 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2005</td></tr>
 244 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Geffen</td></tr>
 245 <tr><td>ID</td><td>B0005171-02</td></tr>
 246 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>156:22</td></tr>
 247 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
 248 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/youre-getting-better-the-word-jazz-dot-masters+r105931">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
 249 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the piece "What Time Is It"
 250 ("He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted").</td></tr>
 251 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 252
 253 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>The Lost Hour</td>
 254 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>Eerie, Indiana</em></td>
 255 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>10</td>
 256 <tr><td>Network</td><td>NBC</td>
 257 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1991-12-01</td>
 258 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences.</td></tr>
 259 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 260
 261 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>Time Tunnel</td>
 262 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Adventures of Pete &amp; Pete</em></td>
 263 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>5, season 2</td>
 264 <tr><td>Network</td><td>Nickelodeon</td>
 265 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1994-10-23</td>
 266 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends.</td></tr>
 267 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 268
 269 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>King-Size Homer</td>
 270 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Simpsons</em></td>
 271 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>135</td>
 272 <tr><td>Network</td><td>Fox</td>
 273 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1995-11-05</td>
 274 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Homer, working from home, remarks "8:58, first
 275 time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight
 276 savings days. Lousy farmers."</td></tr>
 277 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 278
 279 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Jules Verne</td></tr>
 280 <tr><td>Book</td><td>Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
 281 (Around the World in Eighty Days)</td></tr>
 282 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
 283 European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in
 284 deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once
 285 reading a paper.
 286 An on-line French-language version of the book
 287 "with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition"
 288 is available at
 289 <a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</a>
 290 An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at
 291 <a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</a></td></tr>
 292
 293 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 294 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Umberto Eco</td></tr>
 295 <tr><td>Book</td><td>The Island of the Day Before
 296 (L'isola del giorno prima)</td></tr>
 297 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr>
 298 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
 299 "...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island
 300 on the International Date Line.  Time and time zones play an integral
 301 part in the novel." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22)
 302 </td></tr>
 303 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 304 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>David Jebb</td></tr>
 305 <tr><td>Book</td><td><a href="http://www.thethirteenthtimezone.com">
 306 The Thirteenth Time Zone</a></td></tr>
 307 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
 308 "It's fiction, but it's based on his experiences and travels." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22)
 309 </td></tr>
 310 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 311 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>John Dunning</td></tr>
 312 <tr><td>Book</td><td><a
 313 href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=33&amp;pid=479719">Two
 314 O'Clock, Eastern Wartime</a></td></tr>
 315 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr>
 316 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
 317 Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio.
 318 </td></tr>
 319 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 320 <tr><td>Film</td><td>Bell Science - About Time</td></tr>
 321 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza.
 322 Information is available at
 323 <a href="http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/1035/1035893.htm">http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/1035/1035893.htm</a></td></tr>
 324 </table>
 325 <hr>
 326 <ul>
 327 <li>
 328 An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious
 329 Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
 330 of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time;
 331 doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to
 332 emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
 333 </li>
 334 <li>
 335 The 1960s ITC television series "The Prisoner" included an episode
 336 entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to
 337 the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big
 338 Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
 339 </li>
 340 <li>
 341 The series "Seinfeld" included an episode entitled "The Susie," first
 342 broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time
 343 isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour.
 344 </li>
 345 <li>
 346 The syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of
 347 time zone humor on 1998-03-14.
 348 </li>
 349 <li>
 350 Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
 351 of the 1999-11 Atlantic Monthly.
 352 </li>
 353 <li>
 354 "Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of Time
 355 Magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed
 356 year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.
 357 </li>
 358 <li>
 359 The "20 Hours in America" episode of "The West Wing," first aired 2002-09-25,
 360 saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to
 361 catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.
 362 </li>
 363 <li>
 364 "In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on
 365 the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
 366 "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time
 367 zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of
 368 "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone
 369 question should have been asked 2002-06-04.
 370 </li>
 371 <li>
 372 A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois'
 373 premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of "Medium"
 374 (originally aired 2007-02-28).
 375 </li>
 376 <li>
 377 In the "30 Rock" episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day" (first broadcast 2010-02-11),
 378 Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call
 379 received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times.
 380 </li>
 381 <li>
 382 In the 1946 movie "A Matter of Life and Death"
 383 (U.S. title "Stairway to Heaven")
 384 there is a reference to British Double Summer Time.
 385 The time does not play a large part in the plot;
 386 it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the
 387 characters was supposed to have died (but didn't).
 388 The IMDb page is at
 389 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">
 390 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/
 391 </a>. (Dave Cantor)
 392 <li>
 393 The 1953 railway comedy movie "The Titfield Thunderbolt" includes a
 394 play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants
 395 him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?"
 396 And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time."
 397 IMDB page:
 398 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">
 399 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/
 400 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
 401 </li>
 402 <li>
 403 The premise of the 1999 caper movie "Entrapment" involves computers
 404 in an international banking network being shut down briefly at
 405 midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition
 406 from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown
 407 is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for
 408 a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the
 409 crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to
 410 the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the
 411 last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 x 60 = 10.)
 412 IMDB page:
 413 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">
 414 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/
 415 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
 416 </li>
 417 <li>
 418 In "The Todd Couple" episode of "Outsourced" (first aired 2011-02-10),
 419 Manmeet sets up teledates for 6:00 and 9:00;
 420 since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan,
 421 hilarity ensues.
 422 </li>
 423 </ul>
 424 <hr>
 425 <ul>
 426 <li>
 427 "We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492.
 428 Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]."
 429 (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers", 1930,
 430 as noted by Will Fitzerald)
 431 </li>
 432 <li>
 433 Brady: "...[Bishop Usher] determined that the Lord began the Creation
 434 on the 23rd of October in the Year 4004 B.C. at -- uh, at 9 A.M.!"
 435 <br>
 436 Drummond: "That Eastern Standard Time? (Laughter)  Or Rocky Mountain
 437 Time? (More laughter)  It wasn't daylight-saving time, was it?  Because
 438 the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day!"
 439 <br>
 440 (From the play "Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee,
 441 filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as
 442 Brady, and several other times. Thanks to Mark Brader.)
 443 </li>
 444 <li>
 445 "Good news."
 446 "What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
 447 (Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a
 448 May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch")
 449 </li>
 450 <li>
 451 "A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
 452 cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
 453 they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief&mdash;like so many myths, such as that
 454 there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'&mdash;is false."
 455 (Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02)
 456 </li>
 457 <li>
 458 "I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day
 459 when you turn the clocks ahead."
 460 (Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)
 461 </li>
 462 <li>
 463 "Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?"
 464 ("Sahjhan" to "Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of "Angel,"
 465 originally aired 2002-02-25)
 466 </li>
 467 <li>
 468 "I thought you said Tulsa was a three hour flight."
 469 "Well, you're forgetting about the time difference."
 470 ("Chandler" and "Joey" in dialog from the episode of "Friends" first
 471 aired 2002-12-05)
 472 </li>
 473 <li>
 474 "Is that a pertinent fact,
 475 or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?"
 476 (Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane")
 477 </li>
 478 <li>
 479 "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
 480 It is already tomorrow in Australia."
 481 (Charles M. Schulz, provided by Steve Summit)
 482 </li>
 483 <li>
 484 "I put myself and my staff through this crazy, huge ordeal, all because
 485 I refused to go on at midnight, okay?  And so I work, you know, and
 486 then I get this job at eleven, supposed to be a big deal.  Then
 487 yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now it's basically
 488 midnight." (Conan O'Brien on the 2010-11-08 premier of "Conan.")
 489 </li>
 490 </ul>
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