Kubrick always refused to explain his movies, and now he's gone, so I suppose we'll never know. Sometimes with ideas, it's hard to tell if they're the work of genius or madness. I feel that way about Internet Time . I have decided for certain that daylight savings time is one of the most ridiculous ideas in history. Dates were declared, and between those dates the working day would begin an hour earlier.
Time zones are dumb as well.
My watch broke down recently, so while it's being repaired I've been using my Palm III for timekeeping. If everyone else knew Internet Time, and I could get TV Guide in the right format and get my VCR fixed, I'd happily switch tomorrow. The current western system of recording time is actually a bizarre mixture of systems. The months started out Roman, but were later modified by the Roman Catholics. And as the real 2001 approaches, almost everyone now seems to view the numbers on the calendar as holding deep worldly significance.