Every now and then, this list makes my day worthwhile. Julian -----Original Message----- From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Sent: 06 October 2009 21:24 To: 'tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov' Cc: 'msb@vex.net' Subject: FW: tz-art.htm -----Original Message----- From: Mark Brader [mailto:msb@vex.net] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 6:27 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: tz-art.htm I am not on the TZ mailing list. Please direct responses appropriately. * The 1953 railway comedy movie "The Titfield Thunderbolt" includes a play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?" And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time." IMDB page: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/ * The premise of the 1999 caper movie "Entrapment" involves computers in an international banking network being shut down briefly at midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 x 60 = 10.) IMDB page: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/ And while I'm writing: the item about "A Matter of Life and Death" is missing the word "movie" or similar, and does not mention its other title, which it's known by in the US: "Stairway to Heaven". -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "In cyberspace, the lunatics not only run the asylum, msb@vex.net | but they helped build it..." --Richard Kadrey http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.