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mbyron

Dan_ref wrote
We have a similar situation here in the US.

Cleveland is a step & a half behind the rest of the country.

(sorry, couldn't resist 😛 )

You've obviously never visited Geauga (gee-AW-guh) County, Ohio, where the signs read:
Welcome to Geauga County, please set your clocks back 50 years.

Still, Geauga County produces more maple syrup than the state of Vermont.

Wait, what was the question again?

mbyron

Scrapper1 wrote
I've also heard that all of China is one time zone. It's geographically large enough to cover 6 time zones or something like that, but the whole country is on Beijing time. I just looked it up; it's GMT +8 hours.

That's true (they should have 5 time zones). Very convenient for the central bureaucrats in Beijing, but not so nice when you get up in Lhasa at 7 am and the sun still thinks it's 2 am.

Mark Padgett

Is this thread now about the question of what do you do when officiating a game on a cruise ship in which the ship crosses the international date line while you are conducting a 10 second back court count? 😕

bob jenkins

Mark Padgett wrote
Is this thread now about the question of what do you do when officiating a game on a cruise ship in which the ship crosses the international date line while you are conducting a 10 second back court count? :confused:

No, it's not. But, thanks for asking.

And, FWIW, I think the world should only have one time zone -- everyone should use GMT.

just another ref

Mark Padgett wrote
......what do you do when officiating a game on a cruise ship in which the ship crosses the international date line while you are conducting a 10 second back court count? :confused:

Go home, come back the next day, complete the count, collect for two days travel and per diem.

Mark Padgett

bob jenkins wrote
No, it's not. But, thanks for asking.

And, FWIW, I think the world should only have one time zone -- everyone should use GMT.

Doesn't the military call it zulu time or something like that? I think it stands for "zero meridian". BTW - recently there was an "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade Magazine that listed the dumbest questions she had received all year. One was from someone who wanted to know why, instead of moving clocks ahead and behind one hour for DST adjustment twice a year, didn't we just move all clocks ahead a half an hour once and just leave them there from now on since it would "balance out". 😀

Adam

bob jenkins wrote
No, it's not. But, thanks for asking.

And, FWIW, I think the world should only have one time zone -- everyone should use GMT.

Communist!

That's why we fought the revolutionary war; to avoid heavy taxes and GMT.

Back In The Saddle

Snaqwells wrote
Communist!

That's why we fought the revolutionary war; to avoid heavy taxes and GMT.

Hmmm, I believe WE invented time zones. But perhaps we did it so we could assign ourselves something other than GMT. 😉

Adam

Back In The Saddle wrote
Hmmm, I believe WE invented time zones. But perhaps we did it so we could assign ourselves something other than GMT. 😉

Now you're just arguing grammantics.
That's what I meant. 😀

JugglingReferee

Snaqwells wrote
Isn't there a time zone in Canada that's a half hour ahead of Eastern Time?

Edited: Found it, it's Newfoundland, and it's an hour and a half ahead of US Eastern Time.

Argh! This is what is frustrating to non-Americans. The ISO format for timezones specifies that the TZ is Eastern. It is not called "US Eastern Time."

Back In The Saddle wrote
Hmmm, I believe WE invented time zones. But perhaps we did it so we could assign ourselves something other than GMT.

Actually, a US citizen proposed time zones for the US only. A Canadian proposed the system on a worldwide basis.

Adam

JugglingReferee wrote
Argh! This is what is frustrating to non-Americans. The ISO format for timezones specifies that the TZ is Eastern. It is not called "US Eastern Time."

I was trying to avoid being parochial by referring to it as US Eastern; thus differentiating it from the North American Time Zones that happen to be located further east.

Oh, and you are American. 😉

JugglingReferee

Snaqwells wrote
I was trying to avoid being parochial by referring to it as US Eastern; thus differentiating it from the North American Time Zones that happen to be located further east.

Oh, and you are American. 😉

Yabut, me being North American gets used about as often as I, or anyone, says that they're an Earthling. 😛

The good part of the USA right now is that it's a good place to buy stuff, since my dollar is worth the same as your dollar. 😀

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