I happened to be on the board yesterday as well, and noticed we were 2 posts shy of the 10K mark - thanks for recording this momentous moment, of great moment, er, well - thanks.
I wonder if this is why the server has been so bloody *s-l-o-w* the last couple of days?? it's almost like having one of those old-fashioned dial-up doohickies.
Re: Bridget 96 note I noticed when I log on about 8:30 a.m. EDT it's pretty quick then slows as morning and early afternoon progresses. I blame the time zones ... a day starts east to west and folks start logging on as they get to the office. Then it gets faster late in evening as people go home and all that business stuff peters out. I know it makes no sense. So please don't send me a lot of really logical reasons because they'll just confuse me and upset my delicately balanced sanity. wow
I totally agree and won't bring up the fact that it's morning 5 hours earlier in the UK than here on the East Coast of US'n-land, and that it's *always earlier in New Zealand.
You are all so very sweet. Thank you. You will doubtless receive an unexpected blessing for your thoughtfulness and kindness to this old lady. Sanity still in balance and hanging in there! I'm feeling much better now! wow
I totally agree and won't bring up the fact that it's morning 5 hours earlier in the UK than here on the East Coast of US'n-land, and that it's *always earlier in New Zealand.
Here's a place to look at a cool picture of the planet, showing what parts are in day and what parts are in night. And, it gives the time, as agreed upon by the US Department of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the US Naval Observatory. SO: Get the time (as may not differ by more than 0.0000001 seconds from Coordinated Universal Time), AND witness the work-product of three governmental agencies.
all I could access was a time zone map of US'n's land... is there a link I'm not seeing
It does only offer you a choice of US timezones (the rest of us don't count, apparently), but if you click on one of the listed timezones, you wil then see the world map showing which parts of the world are in daylight and which aren't. I have known about this site for about 18 months now, and am always amused by the way USn's recommend it to all and sundry, forgetting that it is irrelevant to 80% of the world's population. Gives new meaning to that US charity song "We are the World"
Thanks for the site! I always get confused when I call my sister in Sedona, Arizona. It's a state that doesn't go on daylight savings time. Except for the Navaho reservation, which is actually about a quarter of the state. But then the Hopi res, which is surrounded by the Navaho res, does not go on daylight savings time.
I've heard that Benjamin Franklin first proposed daylight savings time as a joke. Anyone know if this is true?
I was about to ask about Daylight time all year during WWII,then decided dear tsuwm has enough to do so ILIU ! Only took 45 minutes of swimming through the murky waters of U.S. government sites to find http://webexhibits.org/dalightsavings/e.html where you will find more information than you can possibly use about Daylight Saving Time. The Department of Transportation governs US time
I discovered answer to my question :
"During World War II, the United States observed year-round Daylight Saving Time (from February 2nd, 1942 to September 30th, 1945). From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law about Daylight Saving Time ... " Lots of other info including Benj. Franklin story. Further, the Brits are "busted!" for starting the whole time change business. Oh, during the 1950s a lot of hospitals kept to Standard Time, so if you were born between October and April, your birth date might be off by an hour ... or not! Uniform Time Act was 1966! Before that it was all up for grabs. Interesting website. Here's a Dont-Look-It-Up-Take -A-Guess quizz: how many time zones are there in USA including "Possessions?" There's a hint in the question. wow
The Department of Transportation governs US time..
Sometime in the '70s, Scientific American ran an article attributing the advent of standard time to the railways in order to make scheduling more like possible. Up until that then, the time in any given place was the local mean time and was measured from the sun's zenith, or high noon.
During the energy crisis following the oil embargo in '73, the federal government mandated that the entire country would stay on daylight savings time in order to -- conserve lamp oil (according to Henry Kissinger, the strategy of conservation was instrumental in breaking the back of the OPEC cartel). The mandate was ended when the outcry of irrate mothers reached Washington: they were concerned for their children's safety on their way to school.
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