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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-09-06 23:05:13 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-09-06 23:05:13 +0000
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parent9cbbd593a1c111fc16f9851249f2c4991d60a85e (diff)
Update to tzcode2000f from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
-<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-art.htm,v 1.1 2000/04/16 16:24:04 d Exp $ -->
+<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-art.htm,v 1.2 2000/09/06 23:05:11 millert Exp $ -->
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Time and the Arts</TITLE>
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
<BODY>
<H1>Time and the Arts</H1>
<ADDRESS>
-@(#)tz-art.htm 7.33
+@(#)tz-art.htm 7.37
</ADDRESS>
<P>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Notes: Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
Film: Bell Science - About Time
Notes: The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza
Information on ordering is available at
- <A HREF="http://www.videoflicks.com/VF/38/038332.htm">http://www.videoflicks.com/VF/38/038332.htm</A>
+ <A HREF="http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml">http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml</A>
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An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious
Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
@@ -189,12 +189,25 @@ 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.
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+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.
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Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
of the November, 1999 Atlantic Monthly.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+"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?"
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+"A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
+cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
+they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief--like so many myths, such as that
+there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'--is false."
+ Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02
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"Good news."
"What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a