Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 06, 2022

It’s as believable as most of the science fiction today.

I don’t think I get how the invention of the clock explains time zones.

Yeah and Daylight Savings Time creates more daylight. Just another way the clock helps control the masses.

Time is a construct. Dividing the day into 24 hours was useful, but only for some things. Farmers get up before the sun and go to bed after the sun sets. It’s us office plebes that are controlled by the clock

Danae has a future, with the RNC

Danae’s using their rule one: Call them what you are.

Can Danae help it if the teacher zoned out.

When Danae is the center of the story, I know that it’s going be great!

She sounds like some of the scientist who advised presidents, displays something and demands it is fact, hell sounds like the last idiot of the oval office who was voted out and denied he was fired.

Here’s the really funny thing about Daylight Savings Time:

Suppose the Government issued a Proclamation – “In the interest of conserving energy and other resources it is advantageous to take advantage of the usually wasted daylight hours in the early morning and to have more daylight hours in the late evening. Therefore, the populous is instructed to reschedule their routines. Beginning on [date], all scheduled activities will begin one hour earlier than before. For example, school classes which currently begin at 8:00 am will instead begin at 7:00 am; business which currently open at 9:00am will instead open at 8:00 am; transportation which normally arrives at a location at 8:45am will instead arrive at 7:45am.”

We would probably immediately have a revolution if this was attempted.

Instead, the Government instructs everyone to set their clocks ahead one hour, but to keep their current schedules according to clock time. For the vast majority of the populous there’s no significant adjustments to be made. (Farmers, ranchers, and those who’s schedules are dependent on natural phenomenon may be disadvantaged, but they soon adjust.) Mission accomplished.

The TEACHER’s a science denier … ? Where does that put the conspiracy theories ?

Svengoolie is advertising for a sidekick on his program. Danae should apply!

“A seminar on Time Travel will be held in Room 210, 2pm, two weeks ago.”

and suddenly, the formerly overtaxed mad scientist finds himself with time on his hands.

He looks a little like Dr. Nefario, especially in panel 6.

I’m wondering when the realization that it wasn’t the same time everywhere at once came about. Everyone knew when noon was from the sun. Days were 12 hours long – six before noon and six after. With accurate clocks, eventually, you could discover (after you’d walked a day or two) that the sundial miles east or west of you showed a different noon. Every city had their own time until, as someone pointed out, the railroad found it convenient to have railroad standard time and cities found it useful to set the clock on city hall by railroad time. (Leaving out Greenwich mean time, which was developed by the maritime industry to tell ships their east-west distance from London, which reflected the changes in time of day but saw no reason to assign ‘zones’ to the phenomena.)

The Science Denying teacher can’t explain Daylight Savings Time.

Danae’s school reports are timeless.

I don’t understand that round thing your calling a clock thingy.

Fall Back sounds alright, with an extra hour of sleep.

Well, I suppose if you can’t be correct, you should at least be entertaining.

So if we just came off of Daylight Savings Time does that mean we’re now on Daylight Wasting Time?

Wow. I am reminded of my 5th Grade report;

‘’How the Invention of the Brake Pedal, Made Automobiles Possible’’

Teacher gave me a 72, caus theyre wear know speling erorrs!

Disagree? How many cars would be on the road today, if they all had no brakes?

“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.” – Steven Wright.

T-shirt wisdom for Danae: What if they’re not stars. . .but holes poked into the top of a container so we can breathe????

(admires art of this cartoon; wishes this cartoon had a explanation for differences between the panels of it involving “…THE CLOCK!” and “ORAL REPORT DAY” (such as an additional panel explaining those differences))

Well, this teacher doesn’t deny real science, just Danae’s.

Here is the true story. In 1789, Ben Franklin wrote a satirical letter about doing time changes and he had calculations showing how many candles could be saved. It was a JOKE. But the Fed govt in WWI adopted it till 1918 where it was dropped. Then in the 1960s it was brought back to save energy which it didn’t do and we’re stuck with it. There is a bill to stay at DST which is stalled and most say ST would be best. During the gas crisis in the 70s they stayed with DST and it caused problems with it being dark at 8 in the morning.

Calvin couldn’t have done it better. Well, possibly if he had his Transmogrifier handy.

I’d swear Danae was kin to… No, it couldn’t be…

Get ready for that inevitable phone call, Dad…

I remember!! Third grade, Mrs. Warren’s class! That old Neanderthal had pop-bottle-bottom glasses and nothing was good enough except when it came from Carol or Becky.

Shoulda started with train schedules.

“It’s Franken-STEEN!”

Danae can set her clock back so far she will be able see the Big Bang. It will answer a lot of questions

Why are so many people carping about DST when it wasn’t even mentioned?

I started working for a company that has technical resources working in India, Canada, South America and all across the Continental United States. Californians complain that the 4am daily coordination meeting for the Indian workers working past 7pm for the 8am meeting is kind of absurd. Someone asked on Friday what time the meeting started on Monday after the timezone shift.

The perfect comic for daylight savings.

Years ago an old Indian Chief, (whose name I can’t remember) when DST was explained to him said, “Only the White man could say you can cut a foot off one end of a blanket and sew it on the other and tell you it’s longer.”I haven’t worn a watch since the day I retired and don’t miss it at all.

“The sun is directly overhead at noon”? Not since we adopted 24 time zones. Consider the Central Time Zone. When the sun is directly overhead in Nashville, Tennessee (at 86.8° west longitude), it’s still got 16.7° (67 minutes) to go in Pecos, Texas (at 103.5° west).

“#2: You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe Daylight Saving Time.” —Dave Barry, syndicated humor columnist, “25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years” (1997)

WTF is wrong with standard time?

Noon is when the sun is overhead. What’s the problem?

UST should start at the Universal Date Line, not Greenwich.

“Oh, Emily, I mean Hilda. Hi, how are you? Long time, no see. And this must be little James.”

“Ha ha, yeah, he was up until 2 AM this morning, now he’s Charles. But what brings you into the store so early today?”

“Bargain hunting. I know the clerks were up all night changing the prices and packaging, but they always miss a few, and I was looking for items where a pound still meant 16 ounces instead of 15. Say, we’ve got to get together for coffee sometime and catch up.”

“What a great idea. Are you free tomoro afternoon to come over to my place?”

“I sure am. But remind me of what the house number is. All the homes on your street look about the same.”

“Well, here’s a card. Now we’re on the odd-numbered side of the street, 1525, instead of the even-numbered side, when we’re 644 over the summer. You can see that I’ve got them both listed to make it easy to keep track of.”

“Oh, and I see that you managed to fix your phone number, too, so only one digit is different after The Change: 7248 instead of 7249. That’s clever. And it’s a really good idea to have the cards printed up.”

“Yes, I said at Bob’s funeral that I should’ve done it earlier, before I got all flustered during his heart attack and mistakenly called the ambulance to the 644 address two years ago.”

“Well, the cards are such a good idea that I think I’ll probably do it, too! So, what time tomoro?”

“How about 2:30, will that work for you?”

“Ideal! Say, isn’t it a good thing that we don’t have to keep switching TIMES back and forth during The Change as well?”

“Oh, Susan, you’re so funny! Time is just a part of nature. Even Congress wouldn’t be so stupid as to make us change THAT twice a year.”

500 brownie points just for that last line. The previous panel is precious, too.

Wonder why he made the 4, 5, and 9 wrong on the clock face.

Well,nobody every DID explain how we progressed from sundials to clocks…..

Reminds me of when Greggory Peccary invented the calendar.