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diff --git a/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm b/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm index 8a591323cf7..008b2dda864 100644 --- a/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm +++ b/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> <!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-art.htm,v 1.3 2001/03/26 15:25:51 millert Exp $ --> +PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" +"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-art.htm,v 1.4 2002/04/04 19:12:09 millert Exp $ --> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"' /> @@ -11,215 +11,243 @@ <body> <h1>Time and the Arts</h1> <address> -@(#)tz-art.htm 7.40 +@(#)tz-art.htm 7.48 </address> <p> Please send corrections to this web page to the <a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>.</p> <p> See also <a href="tz-link.htm">Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</a>.</p> -<pre> -"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command -of time zones?" - "Frasier Crane" -========================================================================== -Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Karrin Allyson -CD: I Didn't Know About You -Copyright Date: 1993 -Label: Concord Jazz, Inc. -ID: CCD-4543 -Track Time: 3:44 -Personnel: Karrin Allyson, vocal - Russ Long, piano - Gerald Spaits, bass - Todd Strait, drums -Notes: CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson; - arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson" -ADO Rating: 1 star -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A175928">AMG Rating: 4 stars</a> -Penguin Rating: 3.5 stars --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Kevin Mahogany -CD: Double Rainbow -Copyright Date: 1993 -Label: Enja Records -ID: ENJ-7097 2 -Track Time: 6:27 -Personnel: Kevin Mahogany, vocal - Kenny Barron, piano - Ray Drummond, bss - Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone - Lewis Nash, drums -ADO Rating: 1.5 stars -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A262654">AMG Rating: 3 stars</a> -Penguin Rating: 3 stars --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Joe Williams -CD: Here's to Life -Copyright Date: 1994 -Label: Telarc International Corporation -ID: CD-83357 -Track Time: 3:58 -Personnel: Joe Williams, vocal - The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra -Notes: This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from - Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461) -ADO Rating: black dot -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A194434">AMG Rating: 2 stars</a> -Penguin Rating: 3 stars --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Charles Fambrough -CD: Keeper of the Spirit -Copyright Date: 1995 -Label: AudioQuest Music -ID: AQ-CD1033 -Track Time: 7:07 -Personnel: Charles Fambrough, bass - Joel Levine, tenor recorder - Edward Simon, piano - Lenny White, drums - Marion Simon, percussion -Notes: On-line information and samples available at - <a href="http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html">http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html</a> -ADO Rating: 2 stars -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A224430">AMG Rating: unrated</a> -Penguin Rating: 3 stars -========================================================================== -Also of note: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Holly Cole Trio -CD: Blame It On My Youth -Copyright Date: 1992 -Label: Manhattan -ID: CDP 7 97349 2 -Total Time: 37:45 -Personnel: Holly Cole, voice - Aaron Davis, piano - David Piltch, string bass -Notes: Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in - Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue" -ADO Rating: 2.5 stars -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A157959">AMG Rating: 3 stars</a> -Penguin Rating: unrated --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Milt Hinton -CD: Old Man Time -Copyright Date: 1990 -Label: Chiaroscuro -ID: CR(D) 310 -Total Time: 149:38 (two CDs) -Personnel: Milt Hinton, bass - Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet - Al Grey, trombone - Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate, - clarinet and saxophone - John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith, - Ralph Sutton, piano - Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar - Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams, - drums - Lionel Hampton, vibraphone - Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal - Buck Clayton, arrangements -Notes: tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time, - Sometimes I'm Happy, - A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, - Four or Five Times, Now's the Time, - Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us, - and Good Time Charlie - On-line samples available at - <a href="http://www.globalmusic.com/labels/chiaroscuro/chiaro_cd_gallery.html">http://www.globalmusic.com/labels/chiaroscuro/chiaro_cd_gallery.html</a> -ADO Rating: 3 stars -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A162344">AMG Rating: 4.5 stars</a> -Penguin Rating: 3 stars --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Paul Broadbent -CD: Pacific Standard Time -Copyright Date: 1995 -Label: Concord Jazz, Inc. -ID: CCD-4664 -Total Time: 62:42 -Personnel: Paul Broadbent, piano - Putter Smith, Bass - Frank Gibson, Jr., drums -Notes: The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans -ADO Rating: 1 star -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A223722">AMG Rating: 4 stars</a> -Penguin Rating: 3.5 stars --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum -CD: Silence/Time Zones -Copyright Date: 1996 -Label: Black Lion -ID: BLCD 760221 -Total Time: 72:58 -Personnel: Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones, - contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments - Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments - Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments - Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer -ADO Rating: black dot -<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A310757">AMG Rating: unrated</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Artist: Jules Verne -Book: Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours - (Around the World in Eighty Days) -Notes: Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. - European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in - deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once - reading a paper. - An on-line French-language version of the book - "with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition" - is available at - <a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</a> - An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at - <a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Film: Bell Science - About Time -Notes: The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza - Information on ordering is available at - <a href="http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml">http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +<hr /> +<p> +Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:</p> +<table> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Karrin Allyson</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>I Didn't Know About You</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4543</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:44</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Karrin Allyson, vocal; +Russ Long, piano; +Gerald Spaits, bass; +Todd Strait, drums</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson; +arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson"</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A1fdovw9ta92k">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Kevin Mahogany</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Double Rainbow</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1993</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Enja Records</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>ENJ-7097 2</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>6:27</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Kevin Mahogany, vocal; +Kenny Barron, piano; +Ray Drummond, bass; +Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone; +Lewis Nash, drums</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Akikbikzjbb19">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Joe Williams</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Here's to Life</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Telarc International Corporation</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CD-83357</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>3:58</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Joe Williams, vocal +The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from +Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461)</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Amyyvad6kt8w1">AMG Rating</a></td><td>2 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Charles Fambrough</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Keeper of the Spirit</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>AudioQuest Music</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>AQ-CD1033</td></tr> +<tr><td>Track Time</td><td>7:07</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Charles Fambrough, bass; +Joel Levine, tenor recorder; +Edward Simon, piano; +Lenny White, drums; +Marion Simon, percussion</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>On-line information and samples available at +<a href="http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html">http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5rkcikcjbb89">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +</table> +<hr /> +<p>Also of note:</p> +<table> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Holly Cole Trio</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Blame It On My Youth</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1992</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Manhattan</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CDP 7 97349 2</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>37:45</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Holly Cole, voice; +Aaron Davis, piano; +David Piltch, string bass</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in +Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A3a9ds37ya3dg">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>unrated</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Milt Hinton</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Old Man Time</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1990</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Chiaroscuro</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CR(D) 310</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>149:38 (two CDs)</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Milt Hinton, bass; +Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet; +Al Grey, trombone; +Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate, +clarinet and saxophone; +John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith, +Ralph Sutton, piano; +Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar; +Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams, +drums; +Lionel Hampton, vibraphone; +Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal; +Buck Clayton, arrangements</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time, +Sometimes I'm Happy, +A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, +Four or Five Times, Now's the Time, +Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us, +and Good Time Charlie +On-line samples available at +<a href="http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php4?albumid=49">http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php3?albumid=49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A1cbyxdab8ola">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Alan Broadbent</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Pacific Standard Time</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4664</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>62:42</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Alan Broadbent, piano; +Putter Smith, Bass; +Frank Gibson, Jr., drums</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Asl8zefuk8gfo">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum</td></tr> +<tr><td>CD</td><td>Silence/Time Zones</td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1996</td></tr> +<tr><td>Label</td><td>Black Lion</td></tr> +<tr><td>ID</td><td>BLCD 760221</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>72:58</td></tr> +<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones, +contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments; +Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments; +Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments; +Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer</td></tr> +<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5bkvu3xjan1k">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Jules Verne</td></tr> +<tr><td>Book</td><td>Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours +(Around the World in Eighty Days)</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. +European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in +deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once +reading a paper. +An on-line French-language version of the book +"with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition" +is available at +<a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</a> +An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at +<a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Film</td><td>Bell Science - About Time</td></tr> +<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza +Information on ordering is available at +<a href="http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml">http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml</a></td></tr> +</table> +<hr /> +<ul> +<li> An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time; doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +</li> +<li> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +</li> +<li> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +</li> +<li> The syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of time zone humor on 1998-03-14. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +</li> +<li> Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 of the November, 1999 Atlantic Monthly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +</li> +<li> "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?" -========================================================================== +the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" +"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 +"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone +question will be asked 2002-06-04. +</li> +</ul> +<hr /> +<ul> +<li> +"We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492. +Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]." +(Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers", 1930, +as noted by Will Fitzerald, wfitzgerald@ameritech.net) +</li> +<li> "Good news." "What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?" - Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a - May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +(Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a +May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch") +</li> +<li> "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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +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) +</li> +<li> "I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day when you turn the clocks ahead." - Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10 -</pre> +(Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10) +</li> +<li> +"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command +of time zones?" +(Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane") +</li> +</ul> </body> </html> |