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15<p>
16Please send corrections to this web page to the
17<a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>.</p>
18<p>
19See also <a href="tz-link.htm">Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</a>.</p>
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21<p>
22Data 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;
31Russ Long, piano;
32Gerald Spaits, bass;
33Todd Strait, drums</td></tr>
34<tr><td>Notes</td><td>CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson;
35arranged 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/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A1fdovw9ta92k">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;
47Kenny Barron, piano;
48Ray Drummond, bass;
49Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone;
50Lewis 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/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Akikbikzjbb19">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
62The 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
64Telarc, "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/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Amyyvad6kt8w1">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;
76Joel Levine, tenor recorder;
77Edward Simon, piano;
78Lenny White, drums;
79Marion Simon, percussion</td></tr>
80<tr><td>Notes</td><td>On-line information and samples available at
81<a href="http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html">http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html</a></td></tr>
82<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2 stars</td></tr>
83<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5rkcikcjbb89">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr>
84<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
85</table>
86<hr />
87<p>Also of note:</p>
88<table>
89<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Holly Cole Trio</td></tr>
90<tr><td>CD</td><td>Blame It On My Youth</td></tr>
91<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1992</td></tr>
92<tr><td>Label</td><td>Manhattan</td></tr>
93<tr><td>ID</td><td>CDP 7 97349 2</td></tr>
94<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>37:45</td></tr>
95<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Holly Cole, voice;
96Aaron Davis, piano;
97David Piltch, string bass</td></tr>
98<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in
99Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"</td></tr>
100<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr>
101<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A3a9ds37ya3dg">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
102<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>unrated</td></tr>
103<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
104<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Milt Hinton</td></tr>
105<tr><td>CD</td><td>Old Man Time</td></tr>
106<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1990</td></tr>
107<tr><td>Label</td><td>Chiaroscuro</td></tr>
108<tr><td>ID</td><td>CR(D) 310</td></tr>
109<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>149:38 (two CDs)</td></tr>
110<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Milt Hinton, bass;
111Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet;
112Al Grey, trombone;
113Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate,
114clarinet and saxophone;
115John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith,
116Ralph Sutton, piano;
117Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar;
118Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams,
119drums;
120Lionel Hampton, vibraphone;
121Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal;
122Buck Clayton, arrangements</td></tr>
123<tr><td>Notes</td><td>tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time,
124Sometimes I'm Happy,
125A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,
126Four or Five Times, Now's the Time,
127Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us,
128and Good Time Charlie
129On-line samples available at
130<a href="http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php4?albumid=49">http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php3?albumid=49</a></td></tr>
131<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
132<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>
133<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3 stars</td></tr>
134<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
135<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Alan Broadbent</td></tr>
136<tr><td>CD</td><td>Pacific Standard Time</td></tr>
137<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1995</td></tr>
138<tr><td>Label</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.</td></tr>
139<tr><td>ID</td><td>CCD-4664</td></tr>
140<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>62:42</td></tr>
141<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Alan Broadbent, piano;
142Putter Smith, Bass;
143Frank Gibson, Jr., drums</td></tr>
144<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans</td></tr>
145<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>1 star</td></tr>
146<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Asl8zefuk8gfo">AMG Rating</a></td><td>4 stars</td></tr>
147<tr><td>Penguin Rating</td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr>
148<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
149<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum</td></tr>
150<tr><td>CD</td><td>Silence/Time Zones</td></tr>
151<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1996</td></tr>
152<tr><td>Label</td><td>Black Lion</td></tr>
153<tr><td>ID</td><td>BLCD 760221</td></tr>
154<tr><td>Total Time</td><td>72:58</td></tr>
155<tr><td>Personnel</td><td>Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones,
156contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments;
157Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments;
158Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments;
159Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer</td></tr>
160<tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>black dot</td></tr>
161<tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5bkvu3xjan1k">AMG Rating</a></td><td>unrated</td></tr>
162<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
163<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Jules Verne</td></tr>
164<tr><td>Book</td><td>Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
165(Around the World in Eighty Days)</td></tr>
166<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
167European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in
168deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once
169reading a paper.
170An on-line French-language version of the book
171"with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition"
172is available at
173<a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</a>
174An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at
175<a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</a></td></tr>
176<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
177<tr><td>Film</td><td>Bell Science - About Time</td></tr>
178<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza
179Information on ordering is available at
180<a href="http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml">http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml</a></td></tr>
181</table>
182<hr />
183<ul>
184<li>
185An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious
186Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
187of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time;
188doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to
189emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
190</li>
191<li>
192The 1960s ITC television series "The Prisoner" included an episode
193entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to
194the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big
195Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
196</li>
197<li>
198The series "Seinfeld" included an episode entitled "The Susie," first
199broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time
200isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour.
201</li>
202<li>
203The syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of
204time zone humor on 1998-03-14.
205</li>
206<li>
207Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
208of the 1999-11 Atlantic Monthly.
209</li>
210<li>
211"Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of Time
212Magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed
213year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.
214</li>
215<li>
216The "20 Hours in America" episode of "The West Wing," first aired 2002-09-25,
217saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to
218catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.
219</li>
220<li>
221"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on
222the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
223"In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time
224zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of
225"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone
226question should have been asked 2002-06-04.
227</li>
228</ul>
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230<ul>
231<li>
232"We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492.
233Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]."
234(Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers", 1930,
235as noted by Will Fitzerald, wfitzgerald@ameritech.net)
236</li>
237<li>
238"Good news."
239"What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
240(Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a
241May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch")
242</li>
243<li>
244"A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
245cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
246they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief&mdash;like so many myths, such as that
247there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'&mdash;is false."
248(Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02)
249</li>
250<li>
251"I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day
252when you turn the clocks ahead."
253(Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)
254</li>
255<li>
256"Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?"
257("Sahjhan" to "Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of "Angel,"
258originally aired 2002-02-25)
259</li>
260<li>
261"I thought you said Tulsa was a three hour flight."
262"Well, you're forgetting about the time difference."
263("Chandler" and "Joey" in dialog from the episode of "Friends" first
264aired 2002-12-05)
265</li>
266<li>
267"Is that a pertinent fact,
268or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?"
269(Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane")
270</li>
271<li>
272"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
273It is already tomorrow in Australia."
274(Charles M. Schulz, provided by Steve Summit)
275</li>
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