Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 06, 2016
Transcript:
Pig: I have to fly from Dallas to Phoenix today, and I'm not sure how to set my watch. Goat: Hell, Dallas is on central time, so it's one hour ahead of Phoenix. But keep in mind - today we set our clocks back an hour because it's the end of daylight savings. Except in Arizona, which doesn't observe it. So when you get to Phoenix, the hour you just went back in Texas gets undone. Plus you have the hour behind for the time zone, which - *smash smash smash* Pig: Who needs watches?
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
That’s what I love about smartphones — they set themselves.
Sherlock Watson almost 8 years ago
Here’s a thought — wait ’til you get there, and set your watch to match all the clocks around you.
Sherlock Watson almost 8 years ago
Less serious comment: Pig’s just killing time today.
Bilan almost 8 years ago
Or the old-fashioned way, don’t carry a watch and keep bugging other people for the time.
aardvarkseyes almost 8 years ago
Time is overrated.
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
Arizona as well as Hawaii sure have it easy not doing DST. Anyway, as the band Chicago said, “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?”
asianwoof almost 8 years ago
Daddy, what’s a watch?
alviebird almost 8 years ago
It’s all relative.
jimmjonzz Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Time is that dimension along which the human consciousness slides in one direction. Whether objects and events move through time in any particular direction independent of human consciousness is an open question.
juicebruce almost 8 years ago
Time Is On My Side……………..THE ROLLING STONES……said so! :-)
waycyber almost 8 years ago
In fact, there are 5 known dimensiins:- Length, Width, Depth, Time and Cindy
Steverino Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I am convinced that DST is responsible for the mess we are in. Messing with time makes people CRAZY.
DST will be responsible for the end of civilization as we know it.
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
LMAO!
bigcatbusiness almost 8 years ago
You know, Animaniacs has a song that helps you understand time.
news almost 8 years ago
UTC Everywhere! Even the New York Times thinks so.
chris_o42 almost 8 years ago
By the Time I Get to Phoenix…
mortaur almost 8 years ago
Hey, watch it, pig!
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 8 years ago
What is really weird is going across the DATE LINE!
surfstuff55 almost 8 years ago
I don’t care about Time!
vogonpoetry almost 8 years ago
Everyone should pick a time and just LEAVE it!
nyinstant almost 8 years ago
Just for the proverbial record: it’s called Daylight Saving Time, not “Daylight Savings.”
johndifool almost 8 years ago
Synch with Non Sequitur today (they ponder making a sundial, decide in the end to junk it).
KEA almost 8 years ago
Used to be that way in Indiana when we only observed Hoosier Standard Time… except in the corners near Chicago and KY — no one from outside the state ever knew what time it was here. (and quite a few Hoosiers were also at sea)
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe almost 8 years ago
Fly from Regina to Tucson, easy peasy
steve.terry almost 8 years ago
When pigs fly…
booktrout almost 8 years ago
Move up here to the mountains, live by sunset/sunrise instead of clocks and everything will turn out fine. No daylight saving fiascos.
Radical-Knight almost 8 years ago
That’s why I quit wearing a watch. It gives me a chance to talk with people by starting with… “Damn, I forgot my watch; What time is it?”
A_NY_Outlaw almost 8 years ago
there goes the hour gained.
Steve Dutch almost 8 years ago
Is Pig actually smart enough to take a plane all by himself?
Let me respectfully suggest that if you’re too dumb to reset clocks twice a year, or figure out which way a USB plug goes, you should stay home on Tuesday.
peaches_mi_usa almost 8 years ago
Does anybody really know what time it is?
BiathlonNut almost 8 years ago
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
-Apologies to the many who have heard this.YatInExile almost 8 years ago
I have watches but they all need batteries. And I don’t remember the last time I wore one.
zeexenon almost 8 years ago
Once similar in Indiana. When I had to travel to meetings there, I’d call a bank there and say, “What time is it?”
Ermine Notyours almost 8 years ago
In the summer, Arizona is in the Pacific Time Zone, and in winter Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone, now an hour off from most of Texas.
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My main issue with moving up Daylight Saving Time is that I used to be able to hear Spring Training games during my noon lunch break, but with the time change happening in the first week of March and Arizona not observing it, the games only start at noon on the first week, then they move back to one.
Number Three almost 8 years ago
I never have any problems with the clocks going back or forward.
Guess I’m in the minority.
xxx
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
How did Pig end up today in Texas? I thought the PBS crew lived in the Socialist Peoples’ Republic of California.
Anyway, watches are obsolescent. In fact, I’ve stopped wearing one (of the three or four I have) even though I don’t carry around a smartphone. And the world has not ended.
But this is true: Daylight Saving Time is a waste of time and energy. We would be better off, including healthier, without it.
lindz.coop Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Hate Standard Time…gets dark at 4:30 around here.
LilPeruna over 3 years ago
If you have a watch that has atomic timekeeping (gets its time signal from one of the 6 time antennaes around the world) it’ll adjust for you, usually early in the morning. You can also do an immediate time correction, if so desired.
leopardglily over 1 year ago
Screw daylight savings time.
alantain 11 months ago
Or you could Google it. Then you get an answer you don’t have to have explained to you.