Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Xjmt » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:58 pm

Donahoo wrote:I wish they would leave the time alone. Saturday night after I finished changing all the clocks, it was 1:30 - in the morning! :shock: And this morning I was still awake at 1:00 and, of course, didn't want to get up when the alarm went off. :flame:
Yup and double dang it!! :flame:

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Xjmt » Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:01 pm

LHawke wrote:Except that instead of April, it is now in March. And didn't we change them in November instead of October last time?
4 states don't do it, why do the rest of us have to?????
I recently read the railroads had something to do with the time zones. That's away back when the RR first started operating hauling freight and people. I don't remember what their reason was.

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by lswot » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:34 pm

"I don't remember what their reason was."

To confuse us? :huh:
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Post by Henry J » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:56 pm

The railroads set the thing up back then because prior to that, every town had its own time zone, probably a few minutes different than its neighbors to the east and west. :lol:

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Xjmt » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:46 pm

lswot wrote:"I don't remember what their reason was."

To confuse us? :huh:
I don't think they ever gave a care to what everyday citizens thought. :flame:

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Henry J » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:15 pm

So you think they were just trying to railroad the everyday citizens?

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by LHawke » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:46 am

Henry J wrote:So you think they were just trying to railroad the everyday citizens?
:lol:

This may be obvious, but it was so the train schedules would be correct as much as possible. The railroads didn't want to print a schedule or tell someone they would arrive in say, Padukah, at 10:05 when Padukah's time was 5-10 minutes different from the starting point. Airlines today have the same issues, even with the times being standardized. I had a poor Asian couple asking me why it took 1.5 hours to get from Denver to San Francisco and 3.5 hours to go the other way. I had to explain the time zone difference to them several times before they understood that leaving SF at 0900 meant getting into Denver at 12:30 DENVER time, but it would only be 11:30 SF time and vice versa, leaving Denver at 0900 and getting into SF at 10:30 meant that it was actually 11:30 in Denver. 2.5 hours each way. Don't thank me, I was happy to do my worldwide civic duty. :biggrin:
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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Henry J » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:09 am

Asian couple? Somebody from China might have trouble with time zones; that whole country is in one time zone, even though it's as wide east to west as the U.S. I guess they didn't want people to be confused. :scratchhead: :lol:

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by LHawke » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:39 pm

Henry J wrote:Asian couple? Somebody from China might have trouble with time zones; that whole country is in one time zone, even though it's as wide east to west as the U.S. I guess they didn't want people to be confused. :scratchhead: :lol:
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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Xjmt » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:06 pm

LHawke wrote:
Henry J wrote:Asian couple? Somebody from China might have trouble with time zones; that whole country is in one time zone, even though it's as wide east to west as the U.S. I guess they didn't want people to be confused. :scratchhead: :lol:
:rotfl: :rotfl:

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Henry J » Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:39 pm

Here we go again!

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Henry J » Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:25 am

what, nobody found time to gripe about the time? :smile: :D

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by lswot » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:49 pm

What time? Was in Vegas at the *time* and who cares? :lol:
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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by Xjmt » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:56 pm

Decided to watch AVATAR again Saturday night so we set the clocks back BEFORE we started the movie. :wink:

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Re: Temporal Mechanics Saturday night/Sunday morning?

Post by lswot » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:18 pm

Xjmt wrote:Decided to watch AVATAR again Saturday night so we set the clocks back BEFORE we started the movie. :wink:
I like my excuse better! :lol:
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