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authorStuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@canonical.com>2019-01-07 18:41:03 +1100
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@@ -36,19 +36,15 @@ there is a reference to British Double Summer Time.
The time does not play a large part in the plot;
it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the
characters was supposed to have died (but didn't).
-The IMDb page is at
-<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">
-http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/
-</a>. (Dave Cantor)
+(<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">IMDb entry.</a>)
+(Dave Cantor)
<li>
The 1953 railway comedy movie <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> includes a
play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants
him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?"
And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time."
-IMDb page:
-<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">
-http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/
-</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
+(<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">IMDb entry.</a>)
+(Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
</li>
<li>
The premise of the 1999 caper movie <em>Entrapment</em> involves computers
@@ -60,10 +56,8 @@ a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the
crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to
the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the
last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 &times; 60 = 10.)
-IMDb page:
-<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">
-http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/
-</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
+(<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">IMDb entry.</a>)
+(Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
</li>
<li>
One mustn't forget the
@@ -79,12 +73,15 @@ Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time;
doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to
emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
+(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0506628/">IMDb entry</a>.)
</li>
<li>
-"The Chimes of Big Ben", <em>The Prisoner</em>, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06.
+"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimes_of_Big_Ben">The Chimes
+of Big Ben</a>", <em>The Prisoner</em>, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06.
Our protagonist tumbles to
the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big
Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
+(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0679185/">IMDb entry.</a>)
</li>
<li>
"The Susie", <em>Seinfeld</em>, season 8, episode 15, NBC, 1997-02-13.
@@ -196,7 +193,9 @@ Nick Enright, <em>Daylight Saving</em>, 1989.
A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back.
</li>
<li>
-Umberto Eco, <em>The Island of the Day Before</em>
+Umberto Eco,
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Day_Before"><em>The
+Island of the Day Before</em></a>
(<em>L'isola del giorno prima</em>), 1994.
"...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island
on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral