Neal, now you bring up a whole new dimension into this discourse.
Where actually do you reside? In a different time zone altogether, or
do you live by Zulu time?
They also have given up the word "Greenwich Mean Time."
It had a familiar ring to it. As a child in the fourth grade, we
learned it was one hour behind our "German time", I used to marvel why
we were so privileged.
And did you all realize we had one extra second to breathe this New
Year's Eve? I did it with a "sigh" .
This "time" business is something to lose your mind over. I have been
trying to have the churches change the wording of the Apostles' Creed
to read "time eternal" at the end, not " everlasting" which suggests
that we will after death be in a prolonged "Time" frame,which we will
be not. Eternity just is outside time, so ...........I for myself
cannot visualize an everlasting banquet ( you will get filled up) and
everlasting happiness or anything that has the "time" element in it.
Have you ever envisioned an everlasting kiss?
With this globalization of everything we are really in a pickle - the
New Year having come at different times to people. So the moment here
is not the moment there , although it is the same instant when I make
the telephone call. Now when our technology invents a phone we can
call into eternity with, maybe even give God a call, ------- well.
Yes, I am making fun, but then I am not either. Just consider it all
in a moment of reflection from a philosophical or even theological
standpoint.
As to the feet and pounds issue you raise -- you do have a point. My
feet have already a diminished existence and don't carry me farther
than from the car to the store and that with leaning on the shopping
cart, and the pound issue has become a looming over head issue, since
the loss of the feet has made the pounds ever more dominant, and
perhaps i should be glad, because our silly pound is just a bit less
than the "real" pound of 500 gramm---- you know what I mean, my scale
is fooling me.
But seriously, how this nation can be so backward and not have adopted
the 100 scale, - who wants it to start freezing at 32 degrees? = A rug
at 3x4 feet? I to this day divide everything by three to get at least
close to a meter, so I can function when I buy curtains or rugs.
But the silliest thing now is the packaging - giving the grams after
the ounces, so everybody thinks this gram and kilogram business is an
insurmountable hurdle. Why they cannot package in kilograms and grams
and have the pound at 500 gram is a puzzle to me.( they then could
give the ounces afterwards, and then the ounces would fall into the
silly category.)
So I have decided that I shall spend the little life that is left in
me to take on the whole United States and urge everybody to go on the
barricades and then take a march unto Washington to demand the change
for sanity's sake and lift this nation up to the level of the whole
Western world and not keep stuck in the mediaeval confines where
people measured with their feet walking across the fields - and
hopefully you had a large size!
And I challenge every person in this technological group to resist to
measure the size of the picture screen in inches , but in centimeters
------- and let us see how far we the people of "advanced"
technologies have come in this goal of lifting up our beloved country
from the dungeon into the light!
And now my energies are exhausted!
Marta
On Jan 4, 2009, at 09:49 am, Neal Hammon wrote:
Marta:
Don't worry too much about seeing 8am and 8pm on your computer
display. In reality, this is not the real celestial time anyhow.
Aviators use Zulu time, (same as Greenwich time) which is perhaps
the best way to go.
For all you people in Louisville, perhaps you should know that your
court house is at longitude 85 degrees and 45.58 minutes west, so
celestial noon will not occur until 12:43 in the afternoon when we
are on standard time. When on daylight savings time, celestial noon
comes at 1:43, meaning that then we are nearly two hours off off
nature's cycle. Most people in the world are smarter, and try to
regulate their time so that they live within a half hour of natural
or celestrial time.
Incidentally, I can understand wanting to get rid of pounds and
ounces, but if you got rid of your feet, how would you all walk
around?
Neal
On Jan 43, 1120092007, at 8:21 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
In all my computers except in my MBp can I display the time in my
calendar in the 24 hour mode. I have not succeeded in doing this in
this leopard loaded computer.I am sure there is a way, but where is
it?
The am pm display just seems so old fashioned, I would like to get
rid of it as i would of pound and ounces and miles and yards and
feet. And every time I look at my calendar in the week display mode,
it bothers me to read noon and 8am etc and then again 8 pm .
Marta
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