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Re: Only in America

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:12 am

Yeah, but you're a maths teacher. Oh wait... :?
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Re: Only in America

Post by JimC » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:36 am

pErvinalia wrote:
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Yeah, but you're a maths teacher. Oh wait... :?
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I know, but I have some weird gaps in my intuitive sense of various kinds of shit...
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Re: Only in America

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:57 am

I find if the gap is over twelve hours, then it becomes a little harder to quickly work it out. So from New Zealand through Australia and Asia up to the UK I'm all good. After that it gets a bit harder. Especially when it's daytime in both locations (say east coast Australia and California). That throws me off for some reason.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Svartalf » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am

It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:43 am

Svartalf wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am
It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
How about Queensland? It does what it wants.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Hermit » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:59 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:43 am
Svartalf wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am
It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
How about Queensland? It does what it wants.
All states do what they want. QLD and WA don't want daylight saving. The other four states do. SA insists on not being equidistant between the eastern states and the west. It is half an hour behind the former and an hour and a half ahead of the latter, at least during standard times.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Hermit » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:11 am

Svartalf wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am
It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
Russia has eleven time zones. As I type they range from 10:12 in Kaliningrad to 20:12 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:11 am

Hermit wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:59 am
Scot Dutchy wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:43 am
Svartalf wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am
It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
How about Queensland? It does what it wants.
All states do what they want. QLD and WA don't want daylight saving. The other four states do. SA insists on not being equidistant between the eastern states and the west. It is half an hour behind the former and an hour and a half ahead of the latter, at least during standard times.
That is just crazy. :shock: :hehe:
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Re: Only in America

Post by Svartalf » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:42 am

Hermit wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:11 am
Svartalf wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am
It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
Russia has eleven time zones. As I type they range from 10:12 in Kaliningrad to 20:12 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
ooops, I thought they were one zone, like China
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Re: Only in America

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Jul 09, 2018 11:34 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:43 am
Svartalf wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am
It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
How about Queensland? It does what it wants.
What are you talking about?
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Re: Only in America

Post by Seabass » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:51 pm

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Re: Only in America

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:53 am

FFS. Fucking morons.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Forty Two » Thu Jul 12, 2018 11:29 am

Svartalf wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:18 am
It always makes me feel weird that in the same country, there can be a 3hr difference in official time between both coasts... Russia and China are so much more logical.
It helps to have some time zones, because if it's 8am in New York, it's 5am in California. If both were on the same time zone, then kids going to school in New York at 8am would do so in daylight, while in California, they'd be in the dark.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Thu Jul 12, 2018 11:51 am

The Soviet Union operated on Moscow time. That is long gone. North and South it did not matter much. In Northern Siberia it was dark (6 months) or daylight (6 months).
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Re: Only in America

Post by laklak » Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:56 pm

Today's Vibrio Award goes to Jonathan Crenshaw, a homeless, armless Miami native. He stabbed a tourist from Chicago twice with a pair of scissors that he held between his feet, then ran away. Exactly how he accomplished this acrobatic feet was not reported. Surprisingly, Crenshaw has an extensive criminal record.

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