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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 16 Aug 02 - 10:19 PM 03.11 am sat 17 aug 02 |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 12 Aug 02 - 03:34 AM 08.24BST [9UK)........and then there's 29th february. anyone got a birthday? gilbert & sullivan's comic opera 'HMS Pinafore'has a timely predicament of a young couple who wish to wed but can't because she's 20 something but his being born on feb 29 means he's 'just a little boy of 5!' |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mudlark Date: 12 Aug 02 - 02:57 AM Just 4 minutes away from Aug. 12 here in Calif. Now I"M off to see stars.... |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 12 Aug 02 - 02:16 AM And here the link to the US Naval Observatory: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/frontpage.html (have it on my office PC) Wilfried |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 12 Aug 02 - 02:11 AM The big hand is on the 5, and the little hand is on the 7, so i think it is half past five.john |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: The Pooka Date: 11 Aug 02 - 10:53 PM HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA hee hee cough cough arf arf wot a wunnerful thread....especially Kaleea [magnificent!]& catspaw49 (square root, to be SURE!) but everybody else too...Gorbless this Mudcat...denks Gott dere is still some insanity left in da vurruld...oy... Time Gentlemen Time: "Why do we remember the past and not the future?" - Stephen Hawking Well, I'm off to view the Perseids before it's too early. ---Tardily Premature, Pooka (Zoning Out) |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Bill D Date: 11 Aug 02 - 09:54 PM jiminy, folks!...just look here: *grin*...no time like the present to sort it out! http://www.koalanet.com/world-time-zones.html and here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
or here:
or maybe here: |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Chip2447 Date: 11 Aug 02 - 08:41 PM Oops, I thought I missed something, or was that just wishful thinking on my part? Ya know, out of sight, out of mind. Chip2447(who should learn to rely on a short pencil more than he tries to rely on a long memory} |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Genie Date: 11 Aug 02 - 07:38 PM Catspaw, thanks for your excellent elucidation of the time phenomenon. As Belafonte sang, "It was clear as mud, but it cover the ground...". Murray, if you insist on bringing music into this thread, there's always Chicago's song "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" -- or the older American standard "I Didn't Know What Time It Was?" Genie BTW, it's now ca. 4:33PM August 11 here in Oregon. What time will you folks in different locales get to start seeing the Perseid meteor shower tonight? Must've already started (being visible) for some of you. |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 11 Aug 02 - 06:54 PM If I may introduce a musical theme onto this thread, let us think of "Forever Young" by Bob Dylan (or maybe it was Neil Young, I can't remember). Now, at which point on the earth's circumference would one have to reside in order to stay as young as possible ? Thinking back to the great Millenium non-event, I seem to recall that the Millenium first struck at some point in New Zealand, or an island near New Zealand. So, is it reasonable to assume that if one lived somewhere very slightly to the east of wherever that point is, one would always be at least a day younger than one would normally be? Murray
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: John O'L Date: 11 Aug 02 - 06:24 PM Well here it's five past eight tommorrow morning, which should make it about NOW, Mudcat time. Hrothgar, What I can't understand about Daylight Saving is why it has to be changed twice a year. It should be either left in or taken out. I don't care which, but it should just be done and left done. Here endeth the lesson. Burke, according to my calculations, (which are usually reliable if not infallible), the time difference, which I assume is what you wanted, should be 16 hours. The time, which is what you actually asked for, should be whatever it says on your watch. And what about those phantom minutes? Where do they come from/go to? Glenn |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Firecat Date: 11 Aug 02 - 05:50 PM Chip, you forgot to point out that the pelvic thurst nearly drives you insane! (Or is it too late? ;-) )
By the way, it's quarter to eleven at night here in England! |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Chip2447 Date: 11 Aug 02 - 04:56 PM Its a jump to the left, and a step to the right, with your knees in tight, and a pelvic thrust..... LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN.... Chip2447(who warps time with every flatulence attack) |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: GUEST,Burke Date: 11 Aug 02 - 01:57 PM If Mudcat is on daylight savings time but Australia is not & the time difference is 14 hours. What time is it in Dec. when Oz isn on dst but Mudcat is not? Just wondering. 1:51 PM where I am, same as Mudcat +- those phontom minutes. |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: allanwill Date: 11 Aug 02 - 01:18 PM When it's night time in Italy, it's Wednesday over here?! Allan |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 11 Aug 02 - 12:44 PM A difference of 6 hours, so the Mudcat server must be in the Eastern part of the USA. Add 3 hours and you are in crazy Calif., and there Alaska and Hawaii abaft. For a fine display of US time zones look up up the website of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Too idle tolook it up now. Wilfried |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 11 Aug 02 - 12:38 PM Time? What is time? Too short for the happy one, to long for the unhappy. Be glad ye people that the messages go through (sometimes they don't). GMT, or summer time in Greenitch? (Green things never itch for the military man, or he has the wrong profession.) In Germany (Alpha time zone) it is now 18:39 summer time. Wilfried |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Catherine Jayne Date: 11 Aug 02 - 12:22 PM Its 17:18 ( nearly 20 past 5pm) here in England and its still thw 11th august!!! cat |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Aug 02 - 11:53 AM As y'all seem to be having a problem in your time conversions, allow me to step in and give you an easy conversion method. Your first problem is that you are operating on the Grenwich MEAN Time standard which is often just as mean as it's name indicates. So let's swap to the more user friendly Icelandic Kinder Gentler Time standard to do our conversion tables. This also does away with the silly concept of the International Date Line (not the 900 one) which foists upon us the ludicrous idea that, though it is tomorrow there, it is yesterday here...which in point of all evidence is patently untrue, as it is today everywhere. Now we can move along to our formula at a more logical and simpler pace. Take the current surface area of Iceland and subtract the linear distance between there and Pago Pago. Divide this by the square root of Joe Offer. (I use Joe here as this will help him in his recent marriage. Since very few males have a square root, his love life will possibly be enhances, although it could be hindered. I have no "personal" knowledge of Joe's current situation but I'm inclined to believe he may be in need of a little help as I overheard his wife describe Joe's equipment as a "melting fudgcicle, flanked by two jelly beans.") In any case, take this total and multiply it by the number of clocks in your home, less the number of dead wristwatches in your upper right hand dresser drawer. Add the difference total (in minutes) of the aforementioned clocks and divide by the average versus the time on your current wristwatch. You can now differentiate under the equal sign to calculate the value of X, that being the time where you live. Don't forget to use the value of Pi as a constant...and since the value of pie at diners between Toronto and Buffalo is $1.75 (US), use that (1.75) instead of the more traditional 3.14159 figure. Putting it all together you can now readily see that when it is 3:30 P.M., August 11, 2002, in Otswego, it's 2:48 A.M.,October 18, 1893 in Waycross, Georgia. Of course it's always that time in Waycross so don't be confused. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Hrothgar Date: 11 Aug 02 - 07:01 AM 9.05 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. It's all the same in winter in Eastern Australia. In summer those damned southerners start mucking about with perversions like daylight saving time, and everybody knows that makes the curtains fade faster! |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: John O'L Date: 11 Aug 02 - 01:52 AM Five minutes slow. Near enough is good enough. G. |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: John O'L Date: 11 Aug 02 - 01:50 AM Mudcat is consistently fourteen hours behind me, and is again today. I predict that this will show up as being posted at aprox. 1.45 am, since it is 3.45 pm here. OK? Glenn |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Kaleea Date: 11 Aug 02 - 01:06 AM I noticed a few days--or was it nights?--ago that a post of mine was in the future, and I decided to get out my crystal ball to figure it out. I saw in my deep trance, that it was a time warp brought about in the mudcat realm by all the cussin--oops! I mean DIScussion about Cpt. James Tiberius Kirk. I heard that Cp'n Kirk was kinda peeved about the last tirade against him, so he . . . Cp'n: YO, Scotty! Sco: Aye, Cp'n? Cp'n: Uh, Scotty, I think those #$%*&^+@!! backward mudcatters from the past are badmouthing me again! Sco: Bbbut, Cp'n, they wouldna darrre insult th' Cp'n of the finest ship in the fleet! Cp''n: Well, they are! I just had U'Hura play back some of the insulting banter, and . ..NEVRMIND! Just do something to screw with their minds! Sco: But Cp'n, the warrrp engine's 'rrr still rrrreelin' from the last jaunt throae that black hole where the borrrg just aboot di' us all in! I don' have the powerrr! Cp'n: Just do it mister! Sco: (sigh!)Aye, Cp'n. I'll see what I kin dae. Spk: Mr. Scott, I have endeavored to assist you with your calculations, and I see that you have made an error in your stardate computations. Please note that it is now 11:0000000000033444444445555556999999999993333333333 hours, and not 11:0000000000033444444445555556999999999993333333339! Bones: Da***t, Jim, you're a Starfleet Cp'n, not a 21st century politician! (see politician thread) Why don't you leave the past alone and just fly through space-- we've got enough troubles with that pointy eared, green blooded, walking computer telling us all exactly what time it is right now! Cpn: That's it! We'll screw up their clock! Then they'll be too confused to continue saying bad things about my tou--uh, wavy hair, and my pot bell--uh, my fine manly physique! That'll teach 'em to call us "a wagon train to stars!" "I'll show 'em some Cowboy diplomacy, to h*ll with 'em!!" . . .long ago, in the same galaxy, . . .at a place in cyberspace called the Mudcat Cafe, far, far, away--uh, timewise, that is . . . |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Jeri Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:39 PM I got him fooled too? Way cool! |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:38 PM tHats a nice poam Jeri, 9Jeri is a wumon, i thought she was a man, but sombody told me, i think it was Cat paws, i dont know yet).john |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Jeri Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:34 PM Oh Mudcat, please enlighten me About these different hours Why do they exist? Might it be science Or supernatural powers? A hour per zone the world round 24 to make a whole One for each line of longitude From pole to frozen pole (Same time as Mudcat here, minus about 9 minutes. They're farther west - it should be earlier there!) |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: The Pooka Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:33 PM Mr Happy - hee hee woops! sorry. Yes, cheese'll do that in the wee hours o' th' mornin'...Yeah we say Gren Itch also. After all, it's named after yours. Well, except fer Bobby Dylan who referred to "Greeeen Witch Village" (of NYC) in a song of his innocent youth. / But our Greenwich over here is indeed VERY rich. One of the country's wealthiest communities. Ancestral home of the Bush clan, btw. This Texas business in all fake. George the First was born in Greenwich CT. His father Prescott, of Greenwich, was U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Dubya's uncle, Precott Jr., almost ran for CT Senator in 1982, until then-Vice-President George H. W. Bush rang up his brother and told him not to split the Grand Old Party by challenging an incumbent Republican in a primary election. (Prescott might well have won a primary; the liberal-minded incumbent was unpopular within the party.) Dubya was born in New Haven, Connecticut. / So you see what wonderful contributions my little state has made to the world. Come to think of it, we gave you Colt firearms, too. Jaysus, I think I'll move. / What time is in our Greenwich? Time to fire the butler. Again. Good help is *so* hard to find these days. Masato, not only are *you* always far ahead of the rest of us -- so is your *time*! |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: M.Ted Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:30 PM I sent it right on the second, and damned if I am now six minutes in time before my post! |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: M.Ted Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:29 PM I've notice that three or four minute time gap before--10:23PM here in DC-- |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Ebbie Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:25 PM Here it is 6:17 AST PM(that is, Alaska Standard Time, USA)and it will still be August 10 for about another 6 hours. (What happened tomorrow? I want to brace myself.) |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:16 PM i think mr happy is drunk! it is saterday night here , so maybe he been to the pib, anywat it is Bst now, britis summer tine.john |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:11 PM also mc time still shows sat 10 aug 02, whereas in uk & nihon its sun 11 aug- explain? |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:09 PM masato san, its time travel! you're 8+ HOURS AHEAD OF gmt[caps & smalls mix tup-bUGGa!) so in nihon its tomorrow- in usa its yesterday-in uk its tonight[bst]aug 11-sun am 03.01am |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: masato sakurai Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:59 PM It's 10:55 a.m. JST (Aug. 11) |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:53 PM pook, had a serious prob. just now? cheeese just fel off my toast all over my pants!- its 02.42 here now. re: Greenwich. i don't 'tink it's nowt to do wi' Rich. we say 'GREN-ITCH'!- start scratching!! it's02.45am |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: The Pooka Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:46 PM And what's all this talk about GMT, anyway? There's nothing Mean about Time in Greenwich. Time is very nice in Greenwich. So is everything else in Greenwich. Greenwich, England, I Mean. Now, in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, everything IS Mean. Because they're too damn rich. By Which (Rich)I Mean, Richer than Meee. / Hmmph? Wot??/ Oh. / Nevermind. |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: The Pooka Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:41 PM It's a Mudcat Time Warp! Or Loop! Or Something! Minutes are Missing, here. Quick, call in our Physicists. This is huge. |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:40 PM 2.32am |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: The Pooka Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:38 PM Time, gentlemen, Time. :) It is 9:35 pm U.S. Eastern Time. |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:38 PM its 2.29 now at my end. |
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Subject: RE: Help: what time is it by you? From: Amergin Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:33 PM almost time to go home... |
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Subject: what time is it by you? From: Mr Happy Date: 10 Aug 02 - 09:29 PM there's a time discrepancy on mudcat. possibly because it's a USA page- i.e. 8 hours behind GMT. on my pc clock just noe its 02.20 am. i bet this time won't sho up as my posting time on mc. what time is it by you? |
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