Leap Day – The Jenkins

wahming, 3 months ago

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

TIMMAY, 2 months ago

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

TheQuietCroc, 3 months ago

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

Pifpafpouf, 3 months ago

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

wjrii, 3 months ago

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.

logicbomb, 3 months ago

It seems like a better joke for a child going to school, then. An adult would have already experienced many leap years.

shoop, 3 months ago

It’s also just not a connection most people would make. How do leap years and daylight savings relate at all?

logicbomb, 3 months ago

I didn’t get the joke until it was explained, but I can explain this much.

In the fall, for daylight savings, you set the clock one hour back. Basically, you get an extra hour that is inserted into the night.

In leap years, you get an extra day, so the joke is that this extra day is inserted into the night.

The analogy doesn’t account for the spring part of daylight savings.

JoBo, 3 months ago

But how does setting his clock back 24 hours mean that 2pm becomes 2am? 12 hours, yes. 24 hours, no?

hedgehog, 3 months ago

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.

forwardvoid, 3 months ago

Why is he in bed saying “it’s the middle of the night” then.
Your explanation does not fit with the comic.
If Jenkins would have said “but i don’t work on Wednesday” and his boss said “it’s Thursday “. That would have fit your scenario.

hedgehog, 3 months ago

“It’s the middle of the night!” is an exclamation people often make when they’re woken up. Normally it actually is night; in this case it wasn’t but Jenkins still said that because he had just been woken up and was confused.

krondo, 3 months ago

I dont think the math checks out buddy

pastermil, 3 months ago

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

Chainweasel, 3 months ago

24 hours before 2pm would be, checks notes, 2pm.

hrimfaxi_work, 3 months ago

They meant 24 metric hours.

ErKaf, 3 months ago

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?

Vendul, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Leaped to Sunday 💁🏼‍♂️

marcos, 3 months ago

You mean to Friday?

There are a few more hours until Sunday.

hedgehog, 3 months ago

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.