[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] Add xkcd

J William Piggott elseifthen at gmx.com
Wed Mar 2 01:59:44 UTC 2016


I don't know whether its worthy of your link pages, but I
found this recent article interesting:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160126-how-the-brain-maps-time/

On 03/01/2016 12:21 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> * tz-art.htm: Add xkcd.
> Add URLs for specific comic strips or panels.
> ---
>  tz-art.htm | 13 ++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tz-art.htm b/tz-art.htm
> index 57d9092..127ab69 100644
> --- a/tz-art.htm
> +++ b/tz-art.htm
> @@ -353,10 +353,17 @@ 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 <em>Dilbert</em> featured an all-too-rare example of
> -time zone humor on 1998-03-14.
> +The syndicated comic strip <em>Dilbert</em> featured an
> +<a href='http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-03-14'>all-too-rare example of
> +time zone humor</a> on 1998-03-14.
>  </li>
>  <li>
> +The webcomic <em>xkcd</em> has the strip
> +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/673/'>The Sun</a>" (2009-12-09) and the panels
> +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1017/'>Backward in Time</a>" (2012-02-14),
> +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1061/'>EST</a>" (2012-05-28), and
> +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1335/'>Now</a>" (2014-02-26).
> +<li>
>  Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
>  of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>.
>  </li>
> @@ -515,7 +522,7 @@ Peppermint Patty: "What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?"
>  Marcie: "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact,
>  it's already tomorrow in Australia!"
>  <br>
> -(Charles M. Schulz, <em>Peanuts</em>, 1980-06-13)
> +(Charles M. Schulz, <a href='http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13'><em>Peanuts</em>, 1980-06-13</a>)
>  </li>
>  </ul>
>  </body>
> 


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