Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 31, 2024

Standard or daylight saving?…..

It’s Moe’s fault Calvin got his clock cleaned!

Mine is too, but I live in Tokyo!

The British government was discussing this very matter a few years back (okay, like a decade). They thought it would be best to have school start around 10 or 11 AM so the kids could get more sleep. Reality check time: most parents have to get up early and go to work, which would leave their kids to go to school on their own. That would mean more absenteeism, and kids staying up even later, watching stuff online.

Living on Tokyo Time is a great movie.

The US Navy did an experiment in which they kept a small group of volunteers underground for quite awhile without any access to a way to know what time it was. They settled into a “day” duration of about 27 hours. Some people take this as indicating that humans aren’t native to Earth. Or that day length has changed a lot since humans’ genetics were settled on a particular day length. Neither seems all that probable to me… but I have no idea why the experiment came out that way.

Well so was Taylor Swift last February the night before the Super Bowl but she made it to the game in Las Vegas in plenty of time!

If someone with a private jet wanted 25 hour days, he could fly one time zone west each day.

Yesterday, there was much discussion on free and independent thinking. And here, Calvin has to live according to adults’ schedules. Proves that there is a fine line between independence and conformity.

Starting school at 9 instead of at 8 resulted in an across the board improvement in grades for high school students. Teens are natural night owls, getting them to wake up early just ensures they will be sleep deprived. They still won’t be able to sleep in the early evening no matter how early they are woken up.

Your Maternal clock is in the now and present.

Hey I live an hour behind Tokyo time

Happy Hogmanay. Long may yer lum reek.

The ‘mammal’ part of our brain wants to hibernate for 5 months.

It’s never adapted.

Right there with you, Calvin. The only place in the lower 48 where I wake up naturally in the am, is on the west coast. But I’m a DMV native, so how did that happen?

I’ve always been a night owl as well, school and work were torture because I had to get up early and go to bed on time. (Which I usually didn’t manage). Still have to do that, as husband needs to get up on time and he never hears the alarm. Only jobs that really suited me was when I worked at restaurants and hotels. Usually the evening shifts.

Kids suck.

Kids have a excuse for everything!

Bed time and school time . . . the immutable laws of pre teen life

♪ ♫ Livin’ on Tulsa tiiiiime….♫ ♪

“The twins keep us on Centaurian time, standard 37-hour day. Give it a few months. You’ll get used to it. Or you’ll have a psychotic episode.”

Has to be a medium for all especially Calvin to be satisfied. I know old strip. Calvin speaks for bed time most kids his age.

Problem child

He’s a day off, too.

Would be better “Livin on Tulsa time.”

So Calvin’s saying his internal clock is 14 hours ahead (between Ohio and Japan).

Some people’s natural day is 22 hours, they tend to be morning types. Having an internal day of 26-27 ours makes it easier to adjust to changing daylight length.

All too relatable. The second panel looks especially hilarious! Also, imagine if Calvin said that last line in Japanese…

I grew up in the military here in Canada. I kept very busy in my teen years so going to bed at 9 pm and getting up at 6 was very normal. Breakfast and a 30 minute walk to school. 30 minute walk home then off to one of my part time jobs. Home by 6:30 for a late rewarmed dinner and homework. Maybe TV but more likely music or comic books then bed. Army cadets one night a week and one weekend a month. Home late but up at 6. You train yourself to get it done. THAT is what is missing from current generations.

Whatever time you’re on, Calvin, it’s wrong.

…..first grade time!!!!!

Sounds about right…

Me watching NYE in London so I can sleep at 10pm

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!, everyone.

@Everyone.

Permission to misuse the comment section to wish you all a happy new year!

;oD

I have to admit, I love the fact that retirement allows me to stay up late to watch Monday night football (Go Lions!) knowing that I can sleep in the next day and even allow a nap to catch up with me in the middle of the day if so compelled to do so :0) I kinda like the fact that Calvin would be envious of such a privilege that I enjoy!

It’s closing my ears that always seems difficult when I’m trying to get some sleep.

Everyone in my family is like this except my husband. I hated waking babies up to go to school because I had to work. But they have also found that adolescents do better if they can come to school later because their brains need more sleep.

I identify with this kid more every day.

Just wait until he’s a teenager.

Big mood.

I can totally relate to my internal clock being on a different time zone.

Tokyo time would be 16 hours ahead of me.

He’s going to school on New Years Eve??

Yeah, I’ve been there.

I sympathize with you Calvin. No matter how hard I tried, I am not a morning person. It does not matter what time I get up in the morning, I will not fall asleep until around3 or 4 in the morning. Thankfully I am now retired and no longer have to get up at 6 am.

haha the expression on her face as she wearily carries him up the stairs

Considering how many people are 2nd or 3rd shifters, yet all the schools are 1st shift…I used to be a morning person, loved working early…but the older I got, the harder it became. I’m now more like a 3rd shifter…I get up around 3pm, got to bed around 8am.

Mine too.