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Talk:3014: Arizona Chess
I added a basic explanation, how did I do? 172.70.115.129 14:56, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
I guess chess timers work based on the IERS. 172.71.223.126 15:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
If white hat had conserved 20 seconds through the course of the game, they would have won. Cueball must have been sweating if they were relying on this strategy. Radialsymmetry (talk) 15:35, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
Here's one building that might qualify (it appears to be a shed or outbuilding belonging to a house in Mesquite, Nevada): https://www.google.com/maps/@36.808703609641505,-114.05009436731552,55m
I believe that's the only one that straddles the Arizona border with a Pacific Time Zone state (California and Nevada), so (head-)canonically, that's where the comic is set.
No, chess clocks don't work that way. They are simple timers that do not refer to actual time of day in any way, any more than a stopwatch does. Randall just made it work that way for the sake of the joke.
North America vs. Europe
One difference between the way parts of North America change time and the way parts of Europe do is that the various North American time zones fall back/jump forward at 2AM local time, while European time zones all change at the same instant (01:00 UTC/WET (02:00 CET, 03:00 EET). That means that the same "trick" could work by sitting on the line between any American time zones at the changeover, but not by sitting on the European lines. 172.70.47.138 15:37, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
Should the comment about Hawaii be kept? It seems irrelevant. 172.70.111.129 15:42, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
- removed youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 16:15, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
Which songs would go well with this scene?
His World comes to mind... Caliban (talk) 17:13, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
