#1883: Supervillain Plan
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[On the left of this single panel comic Black Hat sits on a high throne, showing a fist, and looking down to Cueball and Magan who stand in front of him on the right.]
Black Hat: ... then, after our drones take control of the cities, we will detonate the devices. California will break off from the mainland and drift out to sea!
Megan: How far out to sea? Will it put any of the cities in the UTC-9 time zone?
Black Hat: What? I don't know.
Megan: One request: Can we make sure this doesn't happen during the daylight saving changeover?
[Caption below the panel:]
You can tell when someone's been a programmer for a while because they develop a deep-seated fear of time zone problems.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Someday, some big historical event will happen during the DST changeover, and all the tick-tock articles chronicling how it unfolded will have to include a really annoying explanation next to their timelines.