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Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:

Artist	Karrin Allyson
CD	I Didn't Know About You
Copyright Date	1993
Label	Concord Jazz, Inc.
ID	CCD-4543
Track Time	3:44
Personnel	Karrin Allyson, vocal; Russ Long, piano; Gerald Spaits, bass; Todd Strait, drums
Notes	CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson; arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson"
ADO Rating	1 star
AMG Rating	4 stars
Penguin Rating	3.5 stars

Artist	Kevin Mahogany
CD	Double Rainbow
Copyright Date	1993
Label	Enja Records
ID	ENJ-7097 2
Track Time	6:27
Personnel	Kevin Mahogany, vocal; Kenny Barron, piano; Ray Drummond, bass; Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone; Lewis Nash, drums
ADO Rating	1.5 stars
AMG Rating	3 stars
Penguin Rating	3 stars

Artist	Joe Williams
CD	Here's to Life
Copyright Date	1994
Label	Telarc International Corporation
ID	CD-83357
Track Time	3:58
Personnel	Joe Williams, vocal The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra
Notes	This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461)
ADO Rating	black dot
AMG Rating	2 stars
Penguin Rating	3 stars

Artist	Charles Fambrough
CD	Keeper of the Spirit
Copyright Date	1995
Label	AudioQuest Music
ID	AQ-CD1033
Track Time	7:07
Personnel	Charles Fambrough, bass; Joel Levine, tenor recorder; Edward Simon, piano; Lenny White, drums; Marion Simon, percussion
Notes	On-line information and samples available at http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html
ADO Rating	2 stars
AMG Rating	unrated
Penguin Rating	3 stars

Also of note:

Artist	Holly Cole Trio
CD	Blame It On My Youth
Copyright Date	1992
Label	Manhattan
ID	CDP 7 97349 2
Total Time	37:45
Personnel	Holly Cole, voice; Aaron Davis, piano; David Piltch, string bass
Notes	Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"
ADO Rating	2.5 stars
AMG Rating	3 stars
Penguin Rating	unrated

Artist	Milt Hinton
CD	Old Man Time
Copyright Date	1990
Label	Chiaroscuro
ID	CR(D) 310
Total Time	149:38 (two CDs)
Personnel	Milt Hinton, bass; Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet; Al Grey, trombone; Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate, clarinet and saxophone; John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith, Ralph Sutton, piano; Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar; Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams, drums; Lionel Hampton, vibraphone; Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal; Buck Clayton, arrangements
Notes	tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time, Sometimes I'm Happy, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, Four or Five Times, Now's the Time, Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us, and Good Time Charlie On-line samples available at http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php3?albumid=49
ADO Rating	3 stars
AMG Rating	4.5 stars
Penguin Rating	3 stars

Artist	Alan Broadbent
CD	Pacific Standard Time
Copyright Date	1995
Label	Concord Jazz, Inc.
ID	CCD-4664
Total Time	62:42
Personnel	Alan Broadbent, piano; Putter Smith, Bass; Frank Gibson, Jr., drums
Notes	The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans
ADO Rating	1 star
AMG Rating	4 stars
Penguin Rating	3.5 stars

Artist	Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum
CD	Silence/Time Zones
Copyright Date	1996
Label	Black Lion
ID	BLCD 760221
Total Time	72:58
Personnel	Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones, contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments; Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments; Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments; Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer
ADO Rating	black dot
AMG Rating	unrated

Artist	Jules Verne
Book	Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours (Around the World in Eighty Days)
Notes	Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once reading a paper. An on-line French-language version of the book "with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition" is available at http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty

Film	Bell Science - About Time
Notes	The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza Information on ordering is available at http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml

An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time; doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
The 1960s ITC television series "The Prisoner" included an episode entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
The series "Seinfeld" included an episode entitled "The Susie," first 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.
The syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of time zone humor on 1998-03-14.
Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 of the November, 1999 Atlantic Monthly.
"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

"We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]." (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers", 1930, as noted by Will Fitzerald, wfitzgerald@ameritech.net)
"Good news." "What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?" (Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch")
"A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief—like so many myths, such as that there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'—is false." (Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02)
"I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day when you turn the clocks ahead." (Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)
"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?" (Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane")