CST
on February 28, 2015 at 12:01 amWhy CST? Why is Professor Doc giving the time in Central? They’re currently in Denver, which is in Mountain. Alex, if he stayed in 95% of Indiana, would have been in Eastern. Maybe he moved to Chicago, which is in CST? Where the cartoonist lived at the time?
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I don’t get it. Proceeded to what?
… proceeded to completely ignore everything Professor Doc was saying because there was a computer display in his field of vision?
Think that’s the whole story John Campbell.
Clearly, it’s because Alex was using a proxy. Unfortunately, since he’s better at offense than defense, it only spoofed his time zone, not his physical location.
In your defense, this was still in the wild days of Indiana not being on daylight savings time, where most of it was Eastern for half the year and Central the other half.
In that case it would be Eastern Daylight Time.
Depending on when this was originally published, many of the world’s supercomputers (which I assume the SEMME Central Computer might have been) were made by SGI and Cray Research, both of which were based in western Wisconsin during the late 80’s and most of the 90’s. Most of the machines were set to CST during the build and test processes, and only changed to another time zone on customer request.
So, a slightly plausible explanation is that SEMME simply didn’t request a timezone change when they bought their machine!
Professor Doc is such a nice guy that he’s compromising directly in-between the two time zones as a concession for Alex’s benefit.
Fan-fiction proposal:
It would make sense to have the central computer system located off-site, as a huge multi-story facility emblazoned with SEMME across the facade is not exactly a secret hideout. And since the 1970s there has been a site in northern Wisconsin called Project Sanguine/Project ELF which is ‘officially’ a US Navy communications project using ultra-low frequency radio waves to communicate with nuke subs while underwater.
But …. in the Walkyverse this is not a Navy project at all but rather a SEMME facility using the remote location for a huge antenna array designed to monitor radio transmissions and otherwise keep tabs on the alien menace. And where better to have the central computer located than at a remote site like that that? So, if we accept that the central computer is located off-site in the Wisconsin northwoods, the Central time zone stamp would in fact be appropriate.
If I was him, I’d use FET just to screw with people
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