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Subject: clocks changing? From: alison Date: 22 Mar 01 - 08:34 PM Just wondering............ Aussie clocks change this weekend .... not even sure which way....... (I know its usually Spring forward and Fall back... but is that the same when you're upside down?)...... like I say I never remember... and they stuffed us up further by making us go to daylight saving early last year... so there would be more light for the olympics!!! but I'm wondering (basically for bumping into people in Paltalk or ICQ)..... when do your clocks change? are we all synchronised? slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Bill D Date: 22 Mar 01 - 08:43 PM we have 10 days to go..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Mar 01 - 08:46 PM Hi, Alison - Daylight Savings Time begins April 1 in the U.S. - our clocks "spring forward" and "fall back," - but we northerners are beginning our spring, and I suppose you're heading into fall. I never seem to be able to visualize all this, so I usually end up at church at the wrong time on Sunday morning.... -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: alison Date: 22 Mar 01 - 08:51 PM now I'm not sure I would trust clocks changing on the 1st April... could be some big Aprils Fools prank.... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Bill D Date: 22 Mar 01 - 09:24 PM Little old lady on radio call-in show..... "I'm against this 'daylight savings time', it'll confuse the chickens!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: artbrooks Date: 22 Mar 01 - 11:13 PM They don't change in Arizona...none of these liberal left-wing crypto-communist socialist concepts allowed! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: GUEST Date: 22 Mar 01 - 11:16 PM Coming up on autumn in Australia, so the clocks there are going "back" to standard time, which means that to the rest of the world, things in Australia will be happening an hour later. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Mar 01 - 11:22 PM Ah yes.....the good old Spring forward and Fall back................Unless you travel to Mississippi, where you have to set your watch back 35 years. Damn...Where's Khandu? I hate to waste these Mississippi jabs when he's not around......................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:30 AM Heads up down under in Oz and Kiwiland..........Mir doesn't care about the time, but in an hour or so have a look up and be prepared to spring forward or fall back. They say the largest chunkies will be about the size of a Volkswagen and zoomin' in at about 350 miles per hour. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Matt_R Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:37 AM Monolithic aborigine sun dial: Ayers clock |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: roopoo Date: 23 Mar 01 - 01:41 AM They change tomorrow night (24/25) here in the UK. Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Terry K Date: 23 Mar 01 - 02:54 AM I'm 50 minutes early for golf, once a year. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 23 Mar 01 - 08:28 AM " Come, gather round 'catters where ever your home and admit that its time to adjust your time zone and dont you "fall back" if its spring where your from for the clocks they are a changing" |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: alison Date: 23 Mar 01 - 08:33 AM hahaha... love it micca slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Mar 01 - 08:34 AM Well Micca, that's really awful......but go on and finish it.........I think you're really on to a winner here. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL Date: 23 Mar 01 - 08:39 AM How many Whoo Whoo's in a time change, Spaw? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mrrzy Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:20 AM Pretty funny, MattR! The fun thing about the clocks changing on different weekends in different countries is that you can really gain or lose hours if you travel. One year Mom went to Europe in the Spring, sprang forward, and then came back and got to spring forward AGAIN... putting her really one hour behind the rest of us. Then that same fall, I went to Europe, fell back, and then came home and fell back AGAIN... putting me one hour ahead of the rest of the family but TWO hours ahead of Mom - If we could do that often enough, the age difference between us would change! It boggles (what boggles?) the mind, to quote somebody or other, Frank somebody. Not to mention that weirdness of some states not participating, so that doing a cross-country drive can get VERY interesting in spots. You wouldn't believe what you can miss. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:26 AM There's a town in Indiana, (Elkin?) with the time change line running through the middle. The airport is on one side of town; the commercial district on the other. I was an hour late for an appointment because of it. Stupid! People live in one zone and work in the other. Must cause havoc with alternate side of the street parking regulations. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Naemanson Date: 23 Mar 01 - 09:39 AM This seems like a good place to remind people of Mark Twain's story about his watch. Click here to read it. Also, there is a Darwin award for some Palestinian terrorists in Israel who got blown up by their own bomb because of a time change. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 23 Mar 01 - 11:10 AM Et en France et l'Europe: Vous devrez avancer votre montre d'une heure le dimanche 25 mars 2001 (à 2 heures du matin) pour être à l'heure d'été, et devrez la reculer d'une heure le dimanche 28 octobre (à 3 heures du matin) pour vous retrouver à l'heure d'hiver.
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Linda Kelly Date: 23 Mar 01 - 11:39 AM Merci Armen! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Date: 23 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM Can someone translate? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: katlaughing Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:08 PM Well, MT, here's a very literal translation from www.tranexp.com: You will owe advance your watch [d'une] hour him Sunday 25 March 2001 (at 2 hours in the morning) for be per hour [d'été], and will have to her back off [d'une] hour him Sunday 28 October (at 3 hours in the morning) for you find per hour wintry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:12 PM Can someone translate? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Jon Freeman Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:18 PM altavista/babelfish gives: You will have to advance your one hour old watch Sunday March 25 2001 (at 2 o'clock in the morning) to be at the summer-time, and will have to move back it one hour Sunday October 28 (at 3 o'clock in the morning) to find you per hour of winter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Naemanson Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:25 PM Garsh but thim furriners taawk funny! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:28 PM Wish we didn't have DST here. In the middle of the summer the sky stays light until WAY after the kids' bedtime. Makes it very hard for them to get to sleep. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 23 Mar 01 - 12:46 PM Do you think our twins might start waking at 6.30 on Sunday and give us a lie in? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Hyperabid Date: 23 Mar 01 - 01:01 PM Appropos of nothing really... At Merton College, Oxford, when the clocks go back there is a bizarre ritual called "The festival of the counter revolution" Undergraduates gather in full sub fusc, (formal black tie dinner wear and a gown and mortarboard), and attach a candle to the top of their mortarboards and walk backwards around the astrolabe in the central quadrangle for an hour whilst attempting to consume an entire bottle of port without either spilling any or falling over innebriated. Before anybody shouts "Urban Myth" at me, I attended said college at said University and participated in said festival. We English are verrrrryyy strange! Hyper |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: GUEST Date: 23 Mar 01 - 03:53 PM Literal translations are never very good; puts me in mind of the language translation computer which took "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak", and came up with "the wine's good, but the meat's rotten" A less literal translation of Armen's message; You should set your watch forward an hour on Sunday, 25th of March, at 2am, to be correct for spring time, and set it back again an hour on Sunday, 28th of October, at 3am to return to correct winter time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:02 PM If you want to know what time it is, click here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Firecat Date: 24 Mar 01 - 04:52 PM Here in England, we turn the clocks forward at 1am. That's about 3 hours!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mr Red Date: 24 Mar 01 - 04:58 PM je ne parlez plus Francais une petit pas. Une bijou petit pas - non? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: JeZeBeL Date: 24 Mar 01 - 05:08 PM Bonjour mes amis francais et anglais. Ici, en angleterre nous avencons notre montres une heure a deux heures du matin. MAis c'est trois heures du matin en france an temps anglais.....ben......j'ai mal au tete maintenant!! C'est tres dificile pour moi. Peut etre je doit parler l'anglais......mais la francais est plus facile....mais, je suis anglaise, je pense....M'AIDEZ!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Date: 24 Mar 01 - 06:48 PM Ich spreche nicht Franzoesich. Weshalb, cutten Sie es out. Danke. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Helen Date: 24 Mar 01 - 07:34 PM alison, In case you are still wondering which way to turn your clock: remember you get to sleep in an hour longer in winter and get up an hour earlier in summer. Cold wintry morning in late March, the last thing you want to do is get out of your warm bed. One extra hour's sleep. I always have to work it out this way in summer: When I finish work at 5pm (DST) it will really only be 4pm (EST) so there is an extra hour to go swimming before the sun goes down. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 24 Mar 01 - 11:51 PM "You will advance your watch one hour on Sunday 25 March (at 2:00 AM) to be on summer time, and set it back one hour on Sunday 28 October (at 3:00 AM) to return to winter time."
Now that wasn't so hard, was it? (Of course, the instructions are for France and Western Europe. North America starts "summer time" a week later.)
In French, which is somewhat vocabulary poor, "devoir" means both to owe and to have to. "Devrez" is the future = "you will". "You should", which is how I translated it at first would be "devriez", conditional. But I have a feeling there may be a nuance for giving instructions, and "you should" is still a better translation. Hey.....wake up! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Penny S. Date: 25 Mar 01 - 06:03 AM I wish I'd seen this last night! Got caught, I did! Where was the seven o'clock program on R4? Why is it nine now? Oh! It's the last weekend in March and I haven't changed the clocks yet! Still, it was useful. Last night I drove a friend home, and we stopped to drop off a master sheet for photocopying, which turned into doing the photocopying, and touring the establishment, after midnight, and I was late home. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Naemanson Date: 25 Mar 01 - 06:42 AM Mary In Kentucky, that site is cool but the time was wrong! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: MudGuard Date: 25 Mar 01 - 08:08 AM Why would changing the time confuse chickens? I have never seen a chicken able to read the clock. ;-)
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Gervase Date: 25 Mar 01 - 09:54 AM Doh! (Slaps head and does half-arsed Homer Simpson impression) I started reading this thread the day it appeared, and I still got caught out today. But isn't it a bloody pain when we have so many clocks in our lives - the video, the music machine, the microwave, the radios, the computers...? Thankfully modern Macs let you sync your machine with a network time server - saves you dialling 121/TIM and hearing that harridan telling you: "at the third stroke the time sponsored by..." There's something about that voice that makes my flesh creep! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Bill D Date: 25 Mar 01 - 10:11 AM the chickens were fine, but a certain little old lady had NO idea what was happening. (Like the guy who refused to look at the Revised Standard Edition of the Bible..and waved his King James..."If it was good enough for the 12 Apostles, it's good good enough for me!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 25 Mar 01 - 11:03 AM I gits my time check from the U.S. Naval observatory at:
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil
It's Greenwich Mean Time, of course -- you have to subtract five hours for Eastern Standard Time, four for Eastern Daylight Time. (Anybody care to remind me where I go to learn how to imbed a link into one of these messages?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 25 Mar 01 - 11:21 AM You can blamme this mess on Benjamin Franklin. He's the miscreant who invented daylight savings time. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: MudGuard Date: 25 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM for putting links into postings: <a href="http://www.somewhere.org/">Click here</a> HTH MudGuard |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 25 Mar 01 - 01:30 PM Ok answer me this one in whatever language suits! We put our clocks forward so 5.30 am became 6.30 am why then oh why did the twins wake up at 4.30? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL Date: 25 Mar 01 - 01:49 PM Wow! Mrs. Duck. They can tell time! Prodigies, they are. Have you tried Guinness???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 25 Mar 01 - 05:49 PM Well, let's just try it. For the correct time (GMT), Click here [What is the sound of two fingers being crossed?] |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 25 Mar 01 - 05:51 PM Oh my stars and garters!! It worked! Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 25 Mar 01 - 05:55 PM Naemanson, it's just a cute site that I think must use the clock on your computer. So I guess technically...you're wrong! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 25 Mar 01 - 05:57 PM *BG* |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Helen Date: 25 Mar 01 - 06:02 PM Talking about my computer, Naemanson, reminds me that I don't have to remember when daylight saving starts and ends because as soon as I fire up my computer on the Sunday of the changeover it asks me to check my clock because the time has been adjusted for daylight saving. It didn't work last year, though, here in eastern Oz because of the decision to bring it forward due to the Olympics, so that the competitors would have more daylight to run in, and the tourists would have more daylight to spend money in....er... I mean, sightsee. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Auxiris Date: 26 Mar 01 - 11:34 AM Personally, I am against the time change. Here in France, we start out an hour ahead of the sun during the winter months, which puts us at the same time as the folks in Berlin. In the spring, we then put the clocks ahead yet another hour, which puts us at the same time as in Moscow. I find this ridiculous, as it only saves about 50 francs PER HOUSEHOLD per year. I live in eastern France, not Moscow, for crying out loud and would like to see this stupid practice abandoned. cheers, Aux
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Micca Date: 26 Mar 01 - 11:42 AM Here you go Spaw as requested Times Changing by Micca Come, gather round 'catters where ever your home and admit that its time to adjust your time zone and dont you "fall back" if its spring where your from If your time to you is worth saving And you'd better stop winging or you'll sound like a drone for the clocks they are a changing Come folkies and poets whose profit is your pen And keep your eyes open cos its come round again And of the wedge it may be the end thin And theres no telling where it is aiming Oh the loser now will be later to win For the clocks, they are a changing Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call Don't alter our clocks as they hang on the wall For like Arizona maybe we should have stalled and against this mad scheme should be rageing but resistance is useless in church or in hall For the clocks, they are a changing Come mothers and fathers through out the land The time has arrived for us to take stand Your sons and your daughter are watching the hands You are ancient and rapidly aging and explain once again so that they understand that the clocks they are a changing The time, it is shown, and gone back at last And the present now will soon be the past The first one now will later be last The tick-tock is rapidly fading and The slow one now will later be fast For the clocks , they are a changing |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Noreen Date: 26 Mar 01 - 12:25 PM Good one, micca! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL Date: 26 Mar 01 - 12:29 PM Real good one Micca! You should get an Oscar for that one! |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: JeZeBeL Date: 26 Mar 01 - 12:40 PM I'm all for the stop of time changes, it's bad enough going on holiday to france and having to go an hour forward....nothing against france by the way, je suis desolee, (with the accents of course, Ic an't find them on the comp though), I hate having to get up an hour earlier, is this someones sick idea of a joke?????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Penny S. Date: 26 Mar 01 - 03:27 PM But I can do some gardening when I get home now.... Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: katlaughing Date: 26 Mar 01 - 03:42 PM Great job, Micca. Brill! |