BS: Canada, and their new clock setup

Subject: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:49 PM

and it's about time, says I!

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Mooh
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:55 PM

Damn, I'll never learn to set the VCR clock now!

Not sure I can agree with this, I like the slower pace here.

Does this mean I gotta get a new sundial?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:01 PM

does this mean our metronomes will tick faster too????

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:01 PM

First I've heard of the move to a 24-hour clock. Does that mean winter will be longer? I can't take this kind of pressure and uncertainty at my age.

Bruce M

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:08 PM

Man, that's old footage...

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:42 PM

Hey, if this change becomes retroactive, it's entirely possible that Canadians will be living in the future. Wow. Like, how cool is that?

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:43 PM

Also, this will play hell with daylight savings time. Newfoundland could end up something like 48 minutes ahead of EST. This has HUGE repercussions. HUGE.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:44 PM

So how's this going to effect Newfoundland time?

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:44 PM

Crossposted, brucie.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:51 PM

LOL

But think about it--Package directions will have to be rewritten.

On a TV Dinner (at present): Cook in oven for 50 minutes.

On a TV Dinner (in future--which may actually be now): Cook in oven for 53 minutes and 17 seconds.

Road signs that read "100 km/hr" will have to read "121.6397 km/hr".

Wow, if anyone thought the change to metric was difficult, just THINK about this.

We'll need new watches, new everything that deals with time. Newspapers will no longer just report anything they want--now they'll have the time to find out what really happened. This is definitely a 3.2 joint problem, Watson.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:55 PM

The time is out of joint!

Hehehe

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 05:59 PM

So yeah, Canada is switching to the 24 hour day, but is Newfoundland also going to switch to the 60 minute hour?

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:03 PM

NO WAY!

Also, we have a show on TV in Canada entitled "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". I guess that's gotta change now, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:08 PM

They're all from Newfoundland on that show, you know (except maybe for one or two of the new ones who came on after Rick Mercer and Mary Walsh left).

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:14 PM

I didn't know that. Thanks.

Also, with the new time change, does it mean that geological periods will be different?

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:56 PM

yep...now they'll be digging up the Biassic

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:59 PM

Reunite Gondwanaland!

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 07:44 PM

Vacation on stunning Lake Aggazsi!

(It's spelled something like that...his first name was Louis, anyway.)

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 08:57 PM

oohh..dat guest with the cute "biassic' pun was me...my cookie is set in one browser, but not the other...

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 09:00 PM

The folks in those interviews remind me of the old lady I heard on a radio talk show when the US was about to introduce manditory daylight savings time...."I don't like it, " she said, "it'll confuse the chickens!"

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Gray D
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:05 AM

Does this mean that Canadian ballads will have to be sung faster, or will the dance tunes have to slow down?

Confused Gray D

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: DMcG
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:23 AM

It is a missed opportunity - they should have adopted Metric Time

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: *daylia*
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:36 AM

I think we've "adopted" enough stuff already, eh?

T'ai(me) Chi!

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 01:33 PM

DMcG -

There have been numerous attempts to introduce "decimal" and/or "metric" time systems, particularly in a few niche scientific fields. All such attempts have failed due to failure to account for the fact that during the 365.24 day year the earth actually turns through 366.24 revolutions. (both numbers approximate, of course)

Any attempt to "rationalize" the 24 hour sidereal day used for making calendars must also "rationalize" the inertial day used by astronomers, or it only confuses the issue.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 01:36 PM

What will happen to three-minute eggs? This is gonna be a real screwup.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 01:45 PM

What about "I'll be there in one minute"? Now it'll have to be "I'll be there in 49.3679814356364029 seconds." IMO, this ain't gonna work.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 01:46 PM

Also, we're gonna find out that Canadian swimmers have really been winning the events in the Olympics for decades. Bill, you have created a MONSTER.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:02 PM

It's a Genetic Trait in Canadians?

JOhn

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:22 PM

Oh, yeah? Take this, fella:

T = To /Ö (1 - v2/c2) and L = Lo Ö (1 - v2/c2).

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:23 PM

I liked the reference to circadian rhythms. Almost makes this a music thread, doesn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:24 PM

PS That thing two posts up is the formula for cooking a three-minute egg.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:55 PM

I think I see why I keep missing my favorite Canadian TV show.."The Red Green Show"...it comes on using Canadian time, which makes it come 4 hrs sooner each time.

.....but you know...they never said that to 20 hour clock was done with slightly LONGER hours and minutes! Maybe they were just leaving out certain hours....like from 1 to 5 AM.....less time for drunk drivers to do silly stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Barry T
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:38 PM

DMcG> It is a missed opportunity -
DMcG> they should have adopted Metric Time

Is anybody old enough to remember the April Fools joke that the CBC pulled, when they announced that then Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, was *imposing* Metric Time on the nation? It was the same year that we changed most of our systems to metric. Emotions were already fully charged, magnified by the love/hate extremes we all felt towards Trudeau.

Half the nation went ballistic! For an April Fools prank it was, as they say, 'a good one'!

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:33 PM

Reminds me of the introduction of decimal coinage here in the UK.

One elderly lady got totally confused at our village shop. and I worked out the LSD price for comparison.

She said "It ain't that I've anything against the new coins, but it would have made more sense if they'd waited till us old uns died before bringing it in".

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:40 PM

That's how my mother felt about metric in Canada. She died believing that Calgary and Edmonton has actually moved further apart geographically because the distance went from 180 miles to 300 km. I think she was pretty sure also that it took longer to drive from one to the other.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: *daylia*
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:43 PM

I'm curious - what's the price of LSD in the UK? (?!?)

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:54 PM

LSD tab
£ 3.28

LSD 10 tabs
£ 22.48

LSD 100 tabs
£143.11

The above are 1998 prices.

2002 prices follow.

Scroll down.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: *daylia*
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:12 PM

Interesting! Let's see ... a tab cost (3.68 X 2.3) about $8 Cdn in 2002 ... and hey! Looks cheaper to smoke a (foreign) Bush than a local Skunk over there too!!


maybe this is more than I really needed to know

Subject: RE: BS: Canada, and their new clock setup
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:16 PM

It is more than you need to know. I took ten tabs and all it did was make my computer screen melt. Then the walls. And my clothes disappeared. The cost is lots higher than what they publish.