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10mo ago

Leap Day – The Jenkins

Source: https://thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/leap-day/

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I dont think the math checks out buddy

But if you set the clock back 24 its still 2 PM?
2PM - 24 Hours is 2PM the day before. So the time would not change.
What do I missunderstand?
- Leaped to Sunday 💁🏼‍♂️
  
  You mean to Friday?
  There are a few more hours until Sunday.
- Correct, it was still 2 PM, but Jenkins thought it was 2 PM on a day that he’d already worked.
  Jenkins was planning to go to bed on Wednesday the 28th at 10 PM and had his next alarm set for 6 AM on Thursday the 1st. He then adjusted his clock back to Tuesday the 27th at 10 PM, planning to sleep 8 hours plus the entirety of the “extra” Wednesday.

Methinks it's not Jenkins that needs to figure out how time works, it's the cartoonist

24 hours before 2pm would be, checks notes, 2pm.
- They meant 24 metric hours.

I get what they were going for but I don't understand the last panel at all.

Love how nobody got the joke
When DST ends you set your clock back 1 hour (or it does it automatically nowadays) in the middle of the night, gaining 1 hour of extra sleep
The joke here is that the guy did the same for Leap Day, setting his clock back 24 hours and gaining 24 hours of sleep, so when his boss called at 2pm he was in the middle of his ~32h night
- But how does setting his clock back 24 hours mean that 2pm becomes 2am? 12 hours, yes. 24 hours, no?
  
  It didn’t become 2 AM. It was still 2 PM, but on a day that Jenkins already worked.
  Jenkins was planning to go to bed on Wednesday the 28th at 10 PM and had his next alarm set for 6 AM on Thursday the 1st. He then adjusted his clock back to Tuesday the 27th at 10 PM.
- It seems like a better joke for a child going to school, then. An adult would have already experienced many leap years.
  
  It's also just not a connection most people would make. How do leap years and daylight savings relate at all?
- But that's not a good joke, IMHO. It strains credulity even in the context of a comic strip and is so counterintuitive and unrelatable that no one here was in the cartoonist's head space.

I think the joke would be better if the leap is 12 hours instead...

This comic makes no sense whatsoever. And who the fuck are the other dudes in the room in the last panel?

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