Timezones

[bakedjake]

Timezones are really funny. It can be 8 AM where you are, and 2 PM somewhere else at the exact same time.

Weird!

[Sinner_G]

Hmmm, what are you trying to tell us with that?

<added>Or is it just an excuse, saying that when you write something weird it's because it's early in the morning in your timezone? ;)</added>

[sem4u]

Wow! You learn something new everyday! :)

[hannamyluv]

boy jake, and to think that the world is round to boot!

[Go2]

Timezones are really funny. It can be 8 AM where you are, and 2 PM somewhere else at the exact same time.

And that's not all. If you fly from the first time zone to the second one, your time will in fact go slower than if you had remained on the ground.

[Webwork]

Coooooool! Separate realities! That's deep man, deep.

"Maybe I'm having an acid flash forward." Annie, Field of Dreams.

[ThomasB]

If you fly from the first time zone to the second one

can fly that within 1 hour I guess.

[bakedjake]

heh. i just think it's neat... the whole concept. you'd have to be pretty smart to figure out the best way of doing things to account for the earth's rotation.

i may google that - i'd be interested in reading up on how it came to be.

[lawman]

Hey bakedjake, just for fun, give us your thoughts on quantum mechanics. ;)

lawman

[bakedjake]

maybe at 3 am tomorrow i will. ;-)

[werty]

3am tomorrow already happened in NZ (c:

So Weird!

[troels nybo nielsen]

As a great Danish writer once wrote:

"The end of the world will not be today either because somewhere in the world it is already tomorrow."

[KeithDouglas]

Also, did you notice that in 2004: there is a leap year, a U.S. Presidential election, AND the Olympics -- all in the same year!

[ThomasB]

And Jakes birthday is also in 2004. Too many good events, was a bad New Years eve .... ;)

[Robino]

"Sounds good, I'll be there yesterday."

[DrDoc]

Then you always have time zones like Kathmandu, which is UTC +5:45 :o

[bunltd]

Uh, what time is it? ;)

LisaB

[brdwlsh]

wow, you really are baked!

always 4:20 in your time zone eh...

^: )

[iamlost]

It is fun to leave Japan, etc. flying east to North America and arriving the day before you left :-)

I think one of those Pacific island nations should have the date line run through one of the islands (rather than the water) - think of the tourist possibilities - "I stood in two days at same time" etc.

Might even beat all those weird stamps they call revenue.

[Giacomo]

I never think about the future. It comes soon enough.
~ Albert Einstein

[sidyadav]

I guess jake got the idea of timeszones by chatting with me.. :)

It was 2PM (friday) in US, and 8AM saturday in NZ, sooo different.

Also noticed one thing:
People always mistake me (and all the NZ members at WebmasterWorld) for those Friday Word Games. If I were to start a word game at Friday night (NZ time) , theres always someone complaining "never seen a word game starting this early" so thats why I have to wait untill Saturday morning to start word game's, and when I look at Saturday mornings, theres already a word game started! Not fair. I think we should rename the word games to "Saturday Word Games".
Oh wait - we can't cause the majority of WebmasterWorld members are a day behind.

Sid

[edited by: sidyadav at 9:40 pm (utc) on Feb. 13, 2004]

[Giacomo]

Aaah, millionaires with private jets flying west on new year's eve... :)

[troels nybo nielsen]

Think about those people at the South Pole Station. All the time they can save just by taking a walk. But of course they must be careful to take the right direction. And they can only keep that direction by constantly changing it.

[anallawalla]

Perhaps one of you timezone experts can help me with a practical problem I have not solved in the past 8 years of travelling with a notebook computer. It is to do with appointments in Outlook.

If I change the system date on my computer, all appointments that I made while in Australia get shifted by the time difference. Even holidays straddle two days, which looks weird. e.g. If I have a 10 am PDT meeting in the West coast, when I arrive and change my system clock, the appointment has shifted to "tomorrow" 5 am! So I have just left my PC on home time and put up by ignoring the date and time. An occasional hazard has been when the local mail server spam filter rejected my emails because the date was in the future... :(

I also get by with an old Palm V which does not play this trick.

I need a way to keep the appointments "stuck" to their original dates.

[DrDoc]

Current local time at the South Pole [timeanddate.com]
What time is it at the North and South Poles? [geography.about.com]
What time is it at the North and South Poles? [imakenews.com]

:)

[Fiver]

I remember some canadian history thing on television from back when I had cable... I think, don't quote me, that the concept of standardized time zones came from Canada.

Cities used to set their own time by the setting of the sun, but as railroads etc. changed the boundaries of business, somebody suggested splitting the world into zones. Standardization made sense.

ahyes, there it is [wwp.greenwichmeantime.com ]

It was Sir. Stanford Flemming - There was actually a Sir. Standford Flemming college in the town I went to school in.

[pmac]

>standardized time zones came from Canada.<

blah, when all else fails blame the canucks eh?

The only thing Canadians know about time is what time the beer store closes. :)

[trillianjedi]

If I were to start a word game at Friday night (NZ time) , theres always someone complaining "never seen a word game starting this early" so thats why I have to wait untill Saturday morning to start word game's, and when I look at Saturday mornings, theres already a word game started! Not fair. I think we should rename the word games to "Saturday Word Games".

Go for it and start the next one!

I'll stay up for it/get up early for it (delete as applicable).

;-)

TJ

[sidyadav]

thanks trillian :)

The game's started :)

Sid

[g1smd]

For your Outlook problem, you could just run your computer clock in the UTC time zone all year round, and wherever you are always leave it on UTC.