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  10 <h1>Time and the Arts</h1>
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  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/album/i-didnt-know-about-you-mw0000618657">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/album/double-rainbow-mw0000620371">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/album/heres-to-life-mw0000623648">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>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
  81 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/keeper-of-the-spirit-mw0000176559">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr>
  82 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
  83 </table>
  84 <hr>
  85 <p>Also of note:</p>
  86 <table>
  87 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Holly Cole Trio</td></tr>
  88 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Blame It On My Youth</td></tr>
  89 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1992</td></tr>
  90 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Manhattan</td></tr>
  91 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CDP 7 97349 2</td></tr>
  92 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>37:45</td></tr>
  93 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Holly Cole, voice;
  94 Aaron Davis, piano;
  95 David Piltch, string bass</td></tr>
  96 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in
  97 Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"</td></tr>
  98 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
  99 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/blame-it-on-my-youth-mw0000274303">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
 100 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>unrated</td></tr>
 101 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 102 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Milt Hinton</td></tr>
 103 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Old Man Time</td></tr>
 104 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1990</td></tr>
 105 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Chiaroscuro</td></tr>
 106 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CR(D) 310</td></tr>
 107 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>149:38 (two CDs)</td></tr>
 108 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Milt Hinton, bass;
 109 Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet;
 110 Al Grey, trombone;
 111 Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate,
 112 clarinet and saxophone;
 113 John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith,
 114 Ralph Sutton, piano;
 115 Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar;
 116 Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams,
 117 drums;
 118 Lionel Hampton, vibraphone;
 119 Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal;
 120 Buck Clayton, arrangements</td></tr>
 121 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time,
 122 Sometimes I'm Happy,
 123 A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,
 124 Four or Five Times, Now's the Time,
 125 Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us,
 126 and Good Time Charlie.
 127 <a href="http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/album.php?C=310">Album info</a>
 128 is available.</td></tr>
 129 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
 130 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/old-man-time-mw0000269353">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
 131 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
 132 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 133 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Alan Broadbent</td></tr>
 134 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Pacific Standard Time</td></tr>
 135 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr>
 136 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr>
 137 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4664</td></tr>
 138 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>62:42</td></tr>
 139 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Alan Broadbent, piano;
 140 Putter Smith, Bass;
 141 Frank Gibson, Jr., drums</td></tr>
 142 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans</td></tr>
 143 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
 144 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/pacific-standard-time-mw0000645433">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
 145 <tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
 146 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 147 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum</td></tr>
 148 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Silence/Time Zones</td></tr>
 149 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1996</td></tr>
 150 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Black Lion</td></tr>
 151 <tr><td>ID</td><td>BLCD 760221</td></tr>
 152 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>72:58</td></tr>
 153 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones,
 154 contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments;
 155 Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments;
 156 Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments;
 157 Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer</td></tr>
 158 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr>
 159 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/silence-time-zones-mw0000595735">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
 160 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 161 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Gayle</td></tr>
 162 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Time Zones</td></tr>
 163 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2006</td></tr>
 164 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Tompkins Square</td></tr>
 165 <tr><td>ID</td><td>TSQ2839</td></tr>
 166 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>49:06</td></tr>
 167 <tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Gayle, piano</td></tr>
 168 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
 169 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/time-zones-mw0000349642">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr>
 170 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 171 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Get Up Kids</td></tr>
 172 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Eudora</td></tr>
 173 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr>
 174 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Vagrant</td></tr>
 175 <tr><td>ID</td><td>357</td></tr>
 176 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>65:12</td></tr>
 177 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Central Standard Time." Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information.</td></tr>
 178 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/eudora-mw0000592063">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
 179 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 180
 181 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Coldplay</td></tr>
 182 <tr><td>Song</td><td>Clocks</td></tr>
 183 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2003</td></tr>
 184 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Capitol Records</td></tr>
 185 <tr><td>ID</td><td>52608</td></tr>
 186 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>4:13</td></tr>
 187 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Won the 2004 Record of the Year honor at the
 188 Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin,
 189 great-great-grandson of DST inventor William Willett. The song's first
 190 line is "Lights go out and I can't be saved".</td></tr>
 191 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 192
 193 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Irving Kahal and Harry Richman</td></tr>
 194 <tr><td>Song</td><td>There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time</td></tr>
 195 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1931</td>
 196 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>This musical standard was a No. 1 hit for Guy Lombardo
 197 in 1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie
 198 and many others. The phrase "Moonlight saving time" also appears in
 199 the 1995 country song "Not Enough Hours in the Night" written by Aaron
 200 Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug
 201 Supernaw.</td></tr>
 202 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 203
 204 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>The Microscopic Septet</td></tr>
 205 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Lobster Leaps In</td></tr>
 206 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2008</td></tr>
 207 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Cuneiform</td></tr>
 208 <tr><td>ID</td><td>272</td></tr>
 209 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>73:05</td></tr>
 210 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the song "Twilight Time Zone."</td></tr>
 211 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/lobster-leaps-in-mw0000794929">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
 212 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
 213
 214 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 215
 216 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Bob Dylan</td></tr>
 217 <tr><td>CD</td><td>The Times They Are a-Changin'</td></tr>
 218 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1964</td></tr>
 219 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Columbia</td></tr>
 220 <tr><td>ID</td><td>CK-8905</td></tr>
 221 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>45:36</td></tr>
 222 <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>
 223 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr>
 224 <tr><td>Notes<td>The title song is also available on "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" and "The Essential Bob Dylan."</td></tr>
 225 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 226
 227 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Luciana Souza</td></tr>
 228 <tr><td>CD</td><td>Tide</td></tr>
 229 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2009</td></tr>
 230 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Universal Jazz France</td></tr>
 231 <tr><td>ID</td><td>B0012688-02</td></tr>
 232 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>42:31</td></tr>
 233 <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/tide-mw0000815692">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
 234 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
 235 <tr><td>Notes<td>Includes the song "Fire and Wood" with the lyric
 236 "The clocks were turned back you remember/Think it's still November."
 237 </td></tr>
 238 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 239 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Ken Nordine</td></tr>
 240 <tr><td>CD</td><td>You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters</td></tr>
 241 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2005</td></tr>
 242 <tr><td>Label</td><td>Geffen</td></tr>
 243 <tr><td>ID</td><td>B0005171-02</td></tr>
 244 <tr><td>Total Time</td><td>156:22</td></tr>
 245 <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
 246 <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>
 247 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the piece "What Time Is It"
 248 ("He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted").</td></tr>
 249 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 250
 251 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>The Lost Hour</td>
 252 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>Eerie, Indiana</em></td>
 253 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>10</td>
 254 <tr><td>Network</td><td>NBC</td>
 255 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1991-12-01</td>
 256 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences.</td></tr>
 257 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 258
 259 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>Time Tunnel</td>
 260 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Adventures of Pete &amp; Pete</em></td>
 261 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>5, season 2</td>
 262 <tr><td>Network</td><td>Nickelodeon</td>
 263 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1994-10-23</td>
 264 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends.</td></tr>
 265 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 266
 267 <tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>King-Size Homer</td>
 268 <tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Simpsons</em></td>
 269 <tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>135</td>
 270 <tr><td>Network</td><td>Fox</td>
 271 <tr><td>Air date</td><td>1995-11-05</td>
 272 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Homer, working from home, remarks "8:58, first
 273 time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight
 274 savings days. Lousy farmers."</td></tr>
 275 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 276
 277 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Jules Verne</td></tr>
 278 <tr><td>Book</td><td><em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em>
 279 (<em>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</em>)</td></tr>
 280 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
 281 European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in
 282 deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once
 283 reading a paper.
 284 An on-line French-language version of the book
 285 "with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition"
 286 is available at
 287 <a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</a>
 288 An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at
 289 <a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</a></td></tr>
 290
 291 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 292 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Nick Enright</td></tr>
 293 <tr><td>Play</td><td><em>Daylight Saving</em></td></tr>
 294 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1989</td></tr>
 295 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
 296 A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back.
 297 </td></tr>
 298
 299 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 300 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Umberto Eco</td></tr>
 301 <tr><td>Book</td><td><em>The Island of the Day Before</em>
 302 (<em>L'isola del giorno prima</em>)</td></tr>
 303 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr>
 304 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
 305 "...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island
 306 on the International Date Line.  Time and time zones play an integral
 307 part in the novel." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22)
 308 </td></tr>
 309 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 310 <tr><td>Artist</td><td>John Dunning</td></tr>
 311 <tr><td>Book</td><td><a
 312 href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Two-OClock-Eastern-Wartime/John-Dunning/9781439171530"><em>Two
 313 O'Clock, Eastern Wartime</em></a></td></tr>
 314 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr>
 315 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>
 316 Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio.
 317 </td></tr>
 318 <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 319 <tr><td>Film</td><td><em>About Time</em></td></tr>
 320 <tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1962</td></tr>
 321 <tr><td>Notes</td><td>The Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter,
 322 Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne.
 323 <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154110/">Information</a>
 324 is available at IMDb.</td></tr>
 325 </table>
 326 <hr>
 327 <ul>
 328 <li>
 329 An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled "The Mysterious
 330 Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
 331 of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time;
 332 doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to
 333 emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
 334 </li>
 335 <li>
 336 The 1960s ITC television series <em>The Prisoner</em> included an episode
 337 entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to
 338 the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big
 339 Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
 340 </li>
 341 <li>
 342 The series <em>Seinfeld</em> included an episode entitled "The Susie," first
 343 broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time
 344 isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour.
 345 </li>
 346 <li>
 347 The syndicated comic strip <em>Dilbert</em> featured an all-too-rare example of
 348 time zone humor on 1998-03-14.
 349 </li>
 350 <li>
 351 Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
 352 of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>.
 353 </li>
 354 <li>
 355 "Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of <em>Time</em>
 356 magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed
 357 year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.
 358 </li>
 359 <li>
 360 The "20 Hours in America" episode of <em>The West Wing</em>,
 361 first aired 2002-09-25,
 362 saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to
 363 catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.
 364 </li>
 365 <li>
 366 "In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on
 367 the 1999-11-13 United States airing of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</em>,
 368 and "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time
 369 zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of
 370 the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone
 371 question should have been asked 2002-06-04.
 372 </li>
 373 <li>
 374 A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois'
 375 premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of <em>Medium</em>
 376 (originally aired 2007-02-28).
 377 </li>
 378 <li>
 379 In the <em>30 Rock</em> episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day"
 380 (first broadcast 2010-02-11),
 381 Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call
 382 received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times.
 383 </li>
 384 <li>
 385 In the 1946 movie <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em>
 386 (U.S. title <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>)
 387 there is a reference to British Double Summer Time.
 388 The time does not play a large part in the plot;
 389 it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the
 390 characters was supposed to have died (but didn't).
 391 The IMDb page is at
 392 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">
 393 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/
 394 </a>. (Dave Cantor)
 395 <li>
 396 The 1953 railway comedy movie <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> includes a
 397 play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants
 398 him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?"
 399 And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time."
 400 IMDb page:
 401 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">
 402 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/
 403 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
 404 </li>
 405 <li>
 406 The premise of the 1999 caper movie <em>Entrapment</em> involves computers
 407 in an international banking network being shut down briefly at
 408 midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition
 409 from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown
 410 is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for
 411 a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the
 412 crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to
 413 the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the
 414 last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 &times; 60 = 10.)
 415 IMDb page:
 416 <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">
 417 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/
 418 </a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
 419 </li>
 420 <li>
 421 In the "Run by the Monkeys" episode of <em>Da Vinci's Inquest</em>
 422 (first broadcast 2002-11-17),
 423 a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set
 424 their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire,
 425 introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred.
 426 </li>
 427 <li>
 428 In "The Todd Couple" episode of <em>Outsourced</em> (first aired 2011-02-10),
 429 Manmeet sets up Valentine's Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm;
 430 since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan,
 431 hilarity ensues.
 432 (Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show
 433 proceeds as though it's also mid-evening there.)
 434 </li>
 435 </ul>
 436 <hr>
 437 <ul>
 438 <li>
 439 "We've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492.
 440 Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight saving."
 441 (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in <em>Animal Crackers</em>, 1930,
 442 as noted by Will Fitzgerald)
 443 </li>
 444 <li>
 445 Brady: "...[Bishop Usher] determined that the Lord began the Creation
 446 on the 23rd of October in the Year 4004 B.C. at &ndash; uh, at 9 A.M.!"
 447 <br>
 448 Drummond: "That Eastern Standard Time? (Laughter)  Or Rocky Mountain
 449 Time? (More laughter)  It wasn't daylight-saving time, was it?  Because
 450 the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day!"
 451 <br>
 452 (From the play <em>Inherit the Wind</em> by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee,
 453 filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as
 454 Brady, and several other times. Thanks to Mark Brader.)
 455 </li>
 456 <li>
 457 "Good news."
 458 "What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
 459 (Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a
 460 May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series <em>Baywatch</em>)
 461 </li>
 462 <li>
 463 "A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
 464 cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
 465 they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief &ndash; like so many myths, such as that
 466 there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time' &ndash; is false."
 467 (Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02)
 468 </li>
 469 <li>
 470 "I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day
 471 when you turn the clocks ahead."
 472 (Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)
 473 </li>
 474 <li>
 475 "Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?"
 476 ("Sahjhan" to "Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of <em>Angel</em>,
 477 originally aired 2002-02-25)
 478 </li>
 479 <li>
 480 "I thought you said Tulsa was a three-hour flight."
 481 "Well, you're forgetting about the time difference."
 482 ("Joey" and "Chandler" in dialog from the episode of <em>Friends</em>
 483 entitled "The One With Rachel's Phone Number," originally aired 2002-12-05)
 484 </li>
 485 <li>
 486 "Is that a pertinent fact,
 487 or are you just trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?"
 488 (Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane" to "Roz" from the episode of <em>Frasier</em>
 489 entitled "The Kid," originally aired 1997-11-04)
 490 </li>
 491 <li>
 492 "I put myself and my staff through this crazy, huge ordeal, all because
 493 I refused to go on at midnight, okay?  And so I work, you know, and
 494 then I get this job at eleven, supposed to be a big deal.  Then
 495 yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now it's basically
 496 midnight." (Conan O'Brien on the 2010-11-08 premiere of <em>Conan</em>.)
 497 </li>
 498 <li>
 499 "Well, in my time zone that's all the time I have,
 500 but maybe in your time zone I haven't finished yet. So stay tuned!"
 501 (Goldie Hawn, <em>Rowan &amp; Martin's Laugh-In</em> No. 65, 1970-03-09)
 502 </li>
 503 <li>
 504 Peppermint Patty: "What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?"
 505 <br>
 506 Marcie: "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact,
 507 it's already tomorrow in Australia!"
 508 <br>
 509 (Charles M. Schulz, <em>Peanuts</em>, 1980-06-13)
 510 </li>
 511 </ul>
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