daylight
Explanation
This comic tackles Daylight Saving Time with a mock-analytical approach. It starts by laying out the tradeoff: you gain nearly an hour of extra daylight per day in summer but lose time due to clock confusion and altered sleep schedules. Then it proposes the "obvious solution" -- using conversational rather than clock-based timekeeping, essentially ditching standardized time altogether.
The joke escalates when the comic shows what this "natural timekeeping" would actually look like: all meeting times would sound like they are from fantasy novels. Examples include poetic, absurd phrasings like "when the sun falls upon the waters, we begin to communicate" and references to seasons and celestial events instead of clock times. The comic admits there are drawbacks -- "the first marathon runners on the wrong side must run north" -- before the final panel shows someone earnestly using this system: "It's almost the coming of Ingersolstice! I took time, manager!"
The humor works by first setting up what seems like a reasonable critique of Daylight Saving Time, then taking the proposed alternative to its absurd logical conclusion. It satirizes the perennial debate about DST by showing that while everyone complains about clock changes, the alternative of abandoning standardized time would be far worse -- turning every scheduling interaction into a Lord of the Rings monologue. It mocks the common internet discourse pattern of confidently proposing "obvious" solutions that are actually far more impractical than the problem they solve.