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Subject: What time is it where you are? From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 27 Oct 99 - 10:59 AM Its 4.00pm in the afternoon here. When I switch on in the morning the threads have completely changed. Perhaps when I get hooked up at home I will be able to stay up late and participate. I just wanted to get some idea of the time differences between us all. kindest regards Patrish |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Bill in Alabama Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:03 AM Patrish-- When you entered your thread, it was, I think, 10:59 in the morning here in Alabama. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: MMario Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:06 AM I'm also on local mudcat time. But I have a feeling we have people in just about EVERY time zone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Pete Peterson Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:08 AM My favorite Yogi Berra quote: Tom Seaver; Hey Yogi! What time is it? Berra: You mean NOW? written at 11:09 AM Eastern Daylight time, near 75 degrees west longitude |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:11 AM Bill, thanks, 6 hours behind me - if I could relive that time over I wouldn't have had such a large plateful of sweet and sour chicken at lunchtime - which was your breakfast time. When you are eating your lunch I will be tucking into fish and chips - yum yum Patrish |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Rick Fielding Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:14 AM You think you've got problems? My computer says it's 3 pm, November 16, 1996! And I haven't a clue how to fix it. I change the clock and it just goes back to '96 the next day! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Pete Peterson Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:21 AM Hey, Rick you're lucky, while the rest of us are shivering in the dark on Y2K Day you will be the only one among us with a computer that works! (If you have a place to plug it into that works, details, details) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Blackcat2 Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:33 AM Speaing of time, I'm working in schoolbook publishing and currently I'm on the Math K-8 2002 project - Dates (and ties) are quite suspect around here - mostly we a looking towards deadlines - for different states requirements and the such. But since I'm in Orlando, FL We're Eastern time, of course, but Disney kind of controls much of the important stuff around here. If Mickey said that Orlando should change to Greenwich Mean Time we'd all probably have to do it. pax yall |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Roger the skiffler Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:37 AM On British Summer Time here until the weekend. Now it's 4.39 in the afternoon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:39 AM Rick it sounds as if you may need a new battery for your motherboard... or perhaps your computer is telling the real time and the rest of us are just way ahead of our time. who knows time being relative and all that stuff. Patrish |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Mían Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:40 AM Here in San Francisco it is 8:39 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Whilst it reads 11:39 a.m. for Mudcat server time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Mbo Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:46 AM It's 11:43am Eastern here at ECU. I'm looking forward to daylight savings time--it's actually going to be light out at 6:30am when I get up to go to school! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:51 AM Isn't it annoying when you hit clear entries, when what you really meant to do was submit. I had written to say how surprised I was that San Francisco was 10 hours behind and I also said some thing else that was incredibly witty...but a bit like thought for the day - its gone Patrish |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: katlaughing Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:52 AM At this Mudcat time, 11:51am, it is only 9:51am here in Wyoming. Patrisha nd anyone else who is interested, I have a great world time thingy which Alison in Oz sent to me via email. It is VERY EASY TO USE, Rick you could even figure it out**BG**. If any of you want it, send me your email and I shall send it your way. kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Allan C. Date: 27 Oct 99 - 12:12 PM I am in the same time zone as the 'Cat. Of course, a lot of the information posted here will be buggered by those of us who observe Daylight Savings Time which reverts next weekend. Then some of us will set our clocks back an hour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Mían Date: 27 Oct 99 - 12:23 PM Is not Daylight Savings Time observed around the world? (ignorant of such bits of info)mían |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Allan C. Date: 27 Oct 99 - 12:30 PM Nope. And there are some states within the U.S. which refuse to participate in it as well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Will Bakker Date: 27 Oct 99 - 01:12 PM It is 7.10 PM in Holland, Europe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Blackcat2 Date: 27 Oct 99 - 01:13 PM Indian chooses daylights savings time county by county - yeesh! Many countries don't do it either. And there are actually time zones in some countries that are only a half hour ahead (or behind) of the contiguous time zones. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Blackcat2 Date: 27 Oct 99 - 01:14 PM Indiana, sorry |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: annamill Date: 27 Oct 99 - 01:46 PM I'm 11 days, 16 hours and 11 minutes from starting my new position! Boy, time goes slow! Love, annap |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Magpie Date: 27 Oct 99 - 01:53 PM Here in Oslo, it's 7.50 PM, and we observe the daylight saving thing. On Sunday, 31. though, we'll turn the time back an hour, and I can sleep for one hour longer!!! Magpie |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: MMario Date: 27 Oct 99 - 02:06 PM glory hallaluha, Magpie is right! An extra hour's sleep this weekend....gee, probably won't make up for the 6 I will be shorted chaperoaning the youth group sleepover on Friday, but hey, I'll take what I can get! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Mían Date: 27 Oct 99 - 03:13 PM Would that little sleep then turn your activity into chaper-groaning? :-) mían |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Melbert Date: 27 Oct 99 - 03:17 PM Annap - surely if you hold your old position that long, you'll get cramp? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Allan C. Date: 27 Oct 99 - 03:39 PM Any former U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen here? And if so, does any of you remember the response to a question regarding the time of day? I remember it starting out something like: Sir! I regret that my chronometer is not syncronized with that of the National Observatory... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Penny S. Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:50 PM Anyone remember Eccles saying he knew what the time was because he had it written on a piece of paper? Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Jeri Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:03 PM When I got sent to Kuwait, we had a little unexpected layover. ("Oh darn, the plane is broken and we have to spend three days in Spain...oh what am I to do?") I occasionally asked one of the aircraft crew what time it was, and got one of two possible answers: 1) "where?," or 2) s/he told me what the Greenwich Mean Time was, and I figured it out from there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Charlie Baum Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:10 PM It'll be interessting to watch the Mudcat server this Sunday morning (or very late Saturday night) as it switches from Daylight Savings Time to --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Bill D Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:15 PM here are a number of links to time pages...converts, lists...etc.... but the BEST one..if you have a PC is this..... WorldTime...a FREE program that does everything...put ANY set of clocks you want on your screen...and keeps your clock set to the atomic clock!Plus calendar, timers...etc.one of most useful freeware things around. here are others, though, which might help..
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Bill D Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:17 PM Charlie...then folks can read all the posts that were lost because they were posted between 2 an 3 AM last April? *wink* |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Gint Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:21 PM Penny S, We couldn't inflict Eccles on these nice unsuspecting Americans, for instance:- I took out a book of matches and started to read it, "strike on the bottom" by the light of my burning trousers Does it translate between two countries seperated by the same language. The time at the third beeb will be 22:25
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Melbert Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:23 PM Penny S - Der,...........nope! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: bbc Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:24 PM I'm on U.S. Eastern Standard--Mudcat Standard (same as Max). Hey, MM, the time change is *bad* news for me! It means I'm definitely driving to work an hour in full darkness, w/ highlights shining in my eyes. Already looking forward to springtime! bbc |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: harpgirl Date: 27 Oct 99 - 07:41 PM ...geez you guys...this thread makes no sense unless you also say where you are and what day it is...the world is a big place and sometimes I heard it goes around backwards! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Charlie Baum Date: 27 Oct 99 - 08:03 PM No, No, bbc--when standard time begins, the sun rises an hour EARLIER, ("sun rise" actually being "horizon set," and hour earlier being a communal myth, since we assign the hour arbitrarily)--but anyway, instead of driving to work in darkness, you can drive to work in the light. On the other hand, it means I get to drive HOME in darkness, starting next week. --Charlie Baum, in the Eastern Time zone of the United States. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: bbc Date: 27 Oct 99 - 09:43 PM Well, Charlie, you are right, but, as it happens, I am, too. I am wrong that it is because of the time change. It is really just the seasonal change. The fact remains that, since I drive to work between 6 & 7 am, much of the year, it *is* in darkness. The good news is that I am usually home by 4 pm. best to you in all the time zones, bbc |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Bill D Date: 27 Oct 99 - 09:46 PM supposedly a true story....years ago, an old lady calls a talk show to complain about daylight savings time.... "...I don't think they should do it," she grumps, "it will confuse the chickens.." Bill D...in eastern US about .04° from Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Rick Fielding Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:35 AM Patrish (or anyone) thanks for the tip on the battery! What kind do I need? Do I have to be a computer person to install it ? Help! This 1996 thing is driving me nuts! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Jon Freeman Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:53 AM Rick, I don't think that there is a simple answer to changing a battery on a PC. There are a number of batteries used to start off with. I have only changed one for somebody else and that was easy - just take the case off and one just unplug the leads from the battery and swap. I have got the cover off my PC at the moment and looking at mine, at a minimum, I would have to remove the hard disk and A drive just to gain access and even then it looks as if it would be very fiddly. I would suggest you note the model and ask a computer store for advice. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: WyoWoman Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:57 AM Blackcat, you're kidding, right? INdiana lets Daylight Savings Time be a county option? Good lord! That ought to be part of the definition of confusing... WW Mountain Zone, U.S.A. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: DougR Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:58 AM Arizona is three hours behind EST. Two hours behind CST. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 28 Oct 99 - 04:09 AM Well its another day 9.00am and I am sat at my desk. My boss is out (big cheer) so when the cats away the mouse can play... We lose an hour this weekend,(I think we are going back to GMT) so I will be driving to work in the dark as well. regards Patrish |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Bugsy Date: 28 Oct 99 - 06:06 AM 6.01pm here in sunny Western Australia cheers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Charlie Baum Date: 28 Oct 99 - 10:46 AM Indiana is an unusual case--part of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone, and part of it is in the Central Time Zone. The division runs along County lines. In the winter, therefore, there are two times used in different parts of Indiana. But in the summer, the Central Time part of the state goes an hour ahead to Daylight time, while the Eastern time portion of the state stays on Standard time, which means effectively that it's the same time no matter where you are in the state. Arizona, which aligns with its neighbors to the East and North with Mountain Standard Time in the winter, joins the same time zone as all the tourists from California in the summer, since it continues to observe Mountain Standard Time, which is identical to Pacific Daylight Time. The other state that doesn't "do" Daylight Time is Hawaii, but they're so far away from everybody else, and everyone arriving in Hawaii has to reset their watch anyway, that they don't need to pay no never-mind to this Daylight Time nonsense. Then there's Double-Daylight Time, where everyone moves TWO hours ahead of standard time, a system I've heard of in some summer camps and the Soviet Union. But that's a whole 'nother problem. --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Mían Date: 28 Oct 99 - 11:38 AM ah heck with it all. i'm for a class in earth rhythms via sun and moon and stars positions. anyone with me? and Who shall we get as teach? sounds like charlie. with bert and 'spaw on either side to make sure we are fully giggled and guffawed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Art Thieme Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:21 PM As I'm fond of saying, "If it wasn't for time, we'd have to do everything all at once." A farmer was holding his pig up to his apple tree so the pig could eat. I asked, "Why not just knock 'em off the tree & let the pig eat 'em on the ground? That's such a waste of time!" The farmer responded, "What's time to a pig?" Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Bert Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:27 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Bert Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:29 PM I didn't post anything. Honest! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Fortunato Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:45 PM Here it's daylight savings time, eastern standard time. 12:38 pm at present. This coming Sunday night we turn the clocks back one hour. Spring forward, fall back we say here to help us remember what to do. So we lose an hour's sleep, but the children can walk to school in daylight for a while at least. Lovely weather here, 68 degrees and mostly sunny. The leaves are turning yellow and red, and many of us will climb into cars and go the Skyline Drive to test the effect of automobile exhaust on the National Forest trees.
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Fortunato Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:57 PM Oops, gain an hour's sleep. That's unless, of course, you stay up an hour later to make up for it.
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: MMario Date: 28 Oct 99 - 01:03 PM when you turn the clocks BACK you GAIN an hour's sleep. And then you get a little daylight extra in the morning for a little while. 'course it gets dark in the afternoon real fast. bbc - I know what you mean....it's drive to work in the dark and drive home in the dark for me. I really would prefer to hibernate....the only time I see daylight is the weekends. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Quirk Malarkey Date: 28 Oct 99 - 01:16 PM in o'ahu, hawai'i it is currently 0715 mid-pacific time and the coffee and bagels are ready. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Les B Date: 28 Oct 99 - 02:44 PM Twice a day it's the same time here as wherever you are ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: bbc Date: 28 Oct 99 - 08:46 PM MM--I sympathize. At least, w/ school hours, I usually only have darkness on one of the drives. And the scenery is beautiful. I work near where Sandy & Caroline live, at the intersection of NY, CT, & MA. I do hate the time change coming just before Halloween; it's always so dark (I s'pose lots of folks would like that, huh?)! bbc |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 28 Oct 99 - 08:54 PM 01:55 BST. Heaven knows what it will be next week. Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Barbara Date: 28 Oct 99 - 09:34 PM I'm on Mudcat-3, that is to say, PDT. Until Sunday, and then I'm on PST. I thought Alaska, or parts of it didn't do the Daylight savings thing. Bugsy told us he was on at 6 p.m. when it was 6 a.m. at the Cat. But he neglected to tell us what day it was. How far off MMT (Mudcat Mean Time) does that make him? Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Oct 99 - 09:42 PM Well wher I am it's 2.35 in the morning, and I'm off to bed. Where Mudcat Central is it's 9.36 in the evening. So I can work out the difference. But what happens this weekend when the clocks go back (or is it forward? Either way it's a bloody silly idea)
How long before we just have one global time zone, and adjust our bedtimes to suit ourselves? I think I might start thinking in terms of Mudcat time from now on.
Kevin
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Fadac Date: 29 Oct 99 - 07:33 AM 04:33 10/29/99 here, in a somewhat dark Mountian View, Ca. Working the hoot owl. -Fadac |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Roger the skiffler Date: 29 Oct 99 - 08:41 AM According to my Dilbert Calendar, Oct 31st: DST begins in Australia, ends in Canada & USA except Arizona, Hawaii and Indiana and BST ends (Europe- though I'm sure the Greeks change in early Oct). |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Charlie Baum Date: 31 Oct 99 - 02:01 AM As daylight savings time has just ended in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States, I can't help but post this to see what time Mudcat thinks it is! --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Barbara Date: 31 Oct 99 - 02:05 AM Gosh, Charlie, it looks like Mudcat isn't DST compliant! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Loraine Date: 31 Oct 99 - 02:22 AM It's 1:21 AM in Nashville. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Charlie Baum Date: 31 Oct 99 - 03:08 AM Okay, another try--it's 2:10 a.m. EST (3:10 a.m.EDT)--and mudcat say it's (see time above) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Ana Date: 31 Oct 99 - 04:22 AM ...and in good old NZ (the first country to see the millenium sunrise), it is 9.17 pm on Sunday night. We've always been ahead of the times! Enjoy the last day of your weekend folks. Good night. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Llanfair Date: 31 Oct 99 - 05:09 AM It's about 9-10am here in Wales, and , hey, it's stopped raining!!!! (we're back on GMT now) Hwyl, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: wildlone Date: 31 Oct 99 - 06:12 AM 11:09 Dorset time sun shining blue sky |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Eric the Viking Date: 31 Oct 99 - 10:28 AM Today is Sunday 31.10.99 and it is now 15.22 Cleckheaton time and what time it is anywhere else I haven't got a clue. What ever time it is,it is mudcat time when I switch on the computer. I know, not much help to anyone trying to work out time zones to the micro-second or lat and lontidude down to the n'th degree. By the way, How long does it take for a response like this to get posted in real time? Must be pretty quick. Hi patrish, since it will have to be Monday when you log on at work, Bill says you know me! But, I am not aware that I know you. So see you at the Jug one night and find out! Not likely this Wednesday!( I've got parents evening at school till 20.40 ish) Though if I am quick, you nevr know. Happy haunting Folks!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Penny S. Date: 31 Oct 99 - 12:54 PM Like Eric the Viking, I've got parents, Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday until 5-ish, Thursday until 8-ish and Friday, only two because I'm off to Bonfire Night. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Barbara Date: 31 Oct 99 - 04:25 PM Charlie, I'm really disappointed in you. Where's your dedication to scientific principle? If you'd posted every hour on the hour thru the night, we'd KNOW when the clock changed. I think it's accurate now. Let's see. My clock says 1:24 and +3 for MMT gives me 4:24 if the Mudcat clock has changed. Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Charlie Baum Date: 01 Nov 99 - 08:50 AM My dedication to scientific principle crashed up against my great need to sleep. Sorry. But I feel much more rested now. I have this theory that the human body needs 56 hours of sleep a week--4 hours a night and the rest on weekends. --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 01 Nov 99 - 09:58 AM I started this thread out of curiosity. But I thought you would have a laugh when I tell you what I did this weekend. The clock was supposed to go 1 hour back and I put it forward 1 hour...... I felt distinctly out of sinc with the rest of the world. Patrish - ahead of her time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Eric the Viking Date: 01 Nov 99 - 04:30 PM I'll tell you what I did once. At a school I taught in I knew that all the clocks had been put right by the caretaker. I went and told the school secretary that none of the clocks were right so she readjusted hers and rang the bell for morning break an hour earlier- It didn't half cause chaos!! The kids thought it was great!! Eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: What time is it where you are? From: Alan of Australia Date: 01 Nov 99 - 07:08 PM G'day, 11:08 am in Sydney, 2/11/99. Last week we were 14 hours ahead of Mudcat, this week we're 16 hours. Lost an hour's sleep Sunday when we put the clocks an hour forward.
Cheers, |