Good morning Fabio,
What a lovely story about the bridge! Obviously different regimes on either
side of the bridge who could not agree on which day of the week it is.
Was the difference caused by the change from Julian to Gregorian calendars?
This is the sort of thing that could easily happen today here in Australia
where we are infested by small-minded politicians jealous of “state rights”. As
an example, all of New South Wales uses Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
and Australian Eastern Summer Time (AEDT) except a small area around Broken
Hill which is on Australian Central Standard Time (ACST). There are historical
reasons for this, but given that AEST is used further west in both Queensland
and Victoria, we have a nice anomaly.
Will it change? Probably not, although there is no longer any good reason to
continue with what is obviously silly. One (social) problem is that towns like
Broken Hill like to be “different” just to be different!
Cheers, John
John Pickard
[email protected]
From: fabio.savian
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: smiling sundials & bridge
I've just open a path, 'smiling sundials', on Sundial Atlas to collect this
kind of sundials (www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?sp=197), it contains 3
sundials, if you have others to report, they are welcome.
In front to one of them, LT4 in Kaunas, Lithuania there is a bridge on the
river Nemunas with a curious story (photos in LT4).
During the XIX century it was believed the longest in the world, 13 days were
needed to cross it.
It depends by the two different calendars adopted in the discricts of the two
sides :-)
ciao Fabio
Fabio Savian
Inviato da Tablet Samsung.
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