tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post3642087790441046342..comments2023-12-14T17:43:04.484+00:00Comments on timbobig: So what time is it exactly?Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-47806463149898775922009-10-27T19:40:01.286+00:002009-10-27T19:40:01.286+00:00Oh Rosie, you must have understood the word sundia...Oh Rosie, you must have understood the word sundial.Richard WalkLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12306430776956627549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-85513165146062071082009-10-27T09:45:10.955+00:002009-10-27T09:45:10.955+00:00Well, I didn't understand a word of what Soari...Well, I didn't understand a word of what Soaring said but I will be halfway across the Atlantic tomorrow..Amsterdam this time tomorrow. Landing eventually in Toronto where it will yet again be a different time and a different temperature...and a different accent.<br />And Tim...I remember the birds singing at three in the morning in Scotland and an upside down moon in Cuba...and I saw the stealth bomber gliding silently across the stars in Cuba before it even appeared on the cover of time magazine.Ooops, I'm rambling.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17467630407914812378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-32209464160371127612009-10-26T11:46:50.619+00:002009-10-26T11:46:50.619+00:00I worked out once that, what with the hunting arou...I worked out once that, what with the hunting around for the clocks, the times you get it wrong by overshooting the digits, the sheer number of things to change (though the pool heating timer wasn't one of them - no that can continue in its belief that it's summer, even though the water temperature tells it otherwise)..where was I? Oh yeah I worked out once that it takes the british population a long time to change all its timepieces twice a year. Using extensive use of the statistical evidence available to me, I reckoned it was about 7 years. Don't ask me to prove it, & I can't recall whether that was 7 years each or 7 per year. But you get my drift I'm sure. Anyway time waits for no man so I must get on..<br /><br />But hang on a mo, that can't be right. If there's about 20 million homes in Britain(there's more but some will only have a sundial) with several timepieces & in each home it takes an average of 10 minutes to change them each time, that's about 3.3 million hours spent doing it, which, divided by hours in a year (8760, forgetting leap years) is 380 years.<br />Is there something going wrong here? Am I a decimal point short of an algorithm?Richard WalkLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12306430776956627549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-65841348958228894462009-10-25T19:22:29.618+00:002009-10-25T19:22:29.618+00:00Think of the poor Lapplanders, who have to contend...Think of the poor Lapplanders, who have to contend with daylight varying between 24 and 0 hours. Or the folks living near the Equator, who get no variety at all, twelve hours all year round, God that must be boring, can't imagine how they put up with it down there in Tobago ...<br />Not sure about the horror films, Hollywood musicals for me at the moment (High Society last week, Guys and Dolls coming up).Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-80295416327583619912009-10-25T15:07:47.640+00:002009-10-25T15:07:47.640+00:00It is four minutes past four here..it will be dark...It is four minutes past four here..it will be dark at half six, ghastly. My entire childhood winter was in the dark. It used to get dark at three in the afternoon there!<br /><br />But still, it is the season for horror films, sweet potatoes and stew, gallons of red wine and bicycle runs.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17467630407914812378noreply@blogger.com