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Time and the Arts

-This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of -2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. -

-Please send corrections to this web page to the -time zone mailing list.

Documentaries

+"Daylight +Saving Time Explained" (2011; 6:39) lightly covers daylight saving +time's theory, history, pros and cons. Among other things, it explains +Arizona's daylight-saving enclaves quite well.
+"The Problem +with Time & Timezones – Computerphile" (2013; 10:12) delves +into problems that programmers have with timekeeping.
+"About Time" (1962; 53 minutes) is part of the the +Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter, Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne. +(IMDb entry.)

Music

Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:

@@ -246,8 +253,80 @@ Supernaw. - +

AMG Rating	4.5 stars
Notes	Includes the piece "What Time Is It" ("He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted").

+ +

TV episodes

+ +

+An episode of The Adventures of Superman entitled "The Mysterious +Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers +of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; +doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to +emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. +
+The 1960s ITC television series The Prisoner included an episode +entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to +the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big +Ben" chiming on Polish local time. +
+The series Seinfeld included an episode entitled "The Susie," first +broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time +isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. +
+The "20 Hours in America" episode of The West Wing, +first aired 2002-09-25, +saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to +catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. +
+"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on +the 1999-11-13 United States airing of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, +and "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time +zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of +the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone +question should have been asked 2002-06-04. +
+A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois' +premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of Medium +(originally aired 2007-02-28). +
+In the 30 Rock episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day" +(first broadcast 2010-02-11), +Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call +received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times. +
+In the "Run by the Monkeys" episode of Da Vinci's Inquest +(first broadcast 2002-11-17), +a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set +their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire, +introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred. +
+In "The Todd Couple" episode of Outsourced (first aired 2011-02-10), +Manmeet sets up Valentine's Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm; +since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, +hilarity ensues. +(Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show +proceeds as though it's also mid-evening there.) +
+In the "14 Days to Go"/"T Minus..." episode of +You, Me and the Apocalypse +(first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US), +the success of a mission to deal with a comet +hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time. +(In the US, the episode first aired in the week before the switch to DST.) +

+ @@ -281,8 +360,11 @@ savings days. Lousy farmers." - +

TV episode title	The Lost Hour
TV series	Eerie, Indiana
TV episode number	10
Air date	2016-01-17
Notes	The applicability of a contract hinges on the time zone associated with a video time stamp.

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Books, plays, and magazines

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Artist	Jules Verne
Book	Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours)
Notes	Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio.

Film	About Time
Copyright Date	1962
Notes	The Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter, -Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne. -Information -is available at IMDb.

-An episode of The Adventures of Superman entitled "The Mysterious -Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers -of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; -doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to -emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. -
-The 1960s ITC television series The Prisoner included an episode -entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to -the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big -Ben" chiming on Polish local time. -
-The series Seinfeld included an episode entitled "The Susie," first -broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time -isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. -
-The syndicated comic strip Dilbert featured an -all-too-rare example of -time zone humor on 1998-03-14. -
-The webcomic xkcd has the strip -"The Sun" (2009-12-09) and the panels -"Backward in Time" (2012-02-14), -"EST" (2012-05-28), and -"Now" (2014-02-26), and -"Doomsday Clock" (2016-03-14). -The related book What If? has an entry -"Leap Seconds" (2012-12-31). -
Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 of the 1999-11 Atlantic Monthly.

Atlantic Monthly

-The "20 Hours in America" episode of The West Wing, -first aired 2002-09-25, -saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to -catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. -
-"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on -the 1999-11-13 United States airing of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, -and "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time -zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of -the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone -question should have been asked 2002-06-04. -
-A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois' -premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of Medium -(originally aired 2007-02-28). -
-In the 30 Rock episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day" -(first broadcast 2010-02-11), -Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call -received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times. -

Movies

In the 1946 movie A Matter of Life and Death (U.S. title Stairway to Heaven) @@ -437,30 +458,38 @@ http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/ . (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
-In the "Run by the Monkeys" episode of Da Vinci's Inquest -(first broadcast 2002-11-17), -a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set -their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire, -introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred. +One mustn't forget the +trailer +(2014; 2:23) for the movie Daylight Saving.

Comics

-In "The Todd Couple" episode of Outsourced (first aired 2011-02-10), -Manmeet sets up Valentine's Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm; -since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, -hilarity ensues. -(Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show -proceeds as though it's also mid-evening there.) +The webcomic xkcd has the strip +"The Sun" (2009-12-09) and the panels +"Backward in Time" (2012-02-14), +"EST" (2012-05-28), and +"Now" (2014-02-26), and +"Doomsday Clock" (2016-03-14). +The related book What If? has an entry +"Leap Seconds" (2012-12-31).
-In the "14 Days to Go"/"T Minus..." episode of -You, Me and the Apocalypse -(first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US), -the success of a mission to deal with a comet -hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time. -(In the US, the episode first aired in the week before the switch to DST.) +The syndicated comic strip Dilbert featured an +example of +time zone humor on 1998-03-14. +
+Peppermint Patty: "What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?" +
+Marcie: "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact, +it's already tomorrow in Australia!" +
+(Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, 1980-06-13)

Jokes

"We've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. @@ -527,14 +556,19 @@ midnight." (Conan O'Brien on the 2010-11-08 premiere of Conan.) but maybe in your time zone I haven't finished yet. So stay tuned!" (Goldie Hawn, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In No. 65, 1970-03-09)
-Peppermint Patty: "What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?" -
-Marcie: "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact, -it's already tomorrow in Australia!" -
-(Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, 1980-06-13) -