Time on my mind

[anghara]

When I was five years old I confounded my grandfather by asking, "what is time?" I remember him sputtering and hemming and hawing and never QUITE coming up with an answer that I thought was complete, apt or apropos

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[elfbystarlight]

That's a way more eloquent version of my changing-the-clocks rant. Like I don't have enough body clock issues without having to reset it twice a year! :)

[dr_pretentious]

As you predicted, someone had to go Google it. I half-remembered that it was one of the Fertile Crescent cities, but I couldn't remember which one, and not remembering was driving me crazy. Turns out it was the Babylonians, the people who brought us the 360 degrees of the circle. They did all their important measurements in a sexagesimal system. Weird.

[eneit]

my mum's childhood friend, in the late 70s, was busy telling us how wonderful daylight savings was, as it enabled her to have so much extra sunlight time after she got home from work. My father suggested "Why not leave the clocks exactly as they are and just start work an hour earlier, and finish an hour earlier?"

Mum's friend looked scandalized ... "I'm not getting up at 5am for anybody!" she stated firmly.

It was statements like that that convinced me that city people are indeed different *g*

[tropic_dm]

I've always wondered about who created hours and minutes and seconds and how long they are - thanks for answering that question!

But I agree with you about the uselessness of daylight saving - and will continue to vote against the Qld Govt when they try, yet again, to bring it into Qld so the south-east corner is lined up with New South Wales, while us up here in FNQ, who are about 45-50 minutes BEHIND Brisbane if you go by degrees of longitude, do NOT want daylight saving, simply because we wouldn't get any benefit.

The sun comes up at 6 or thereabouts every day, and goes down anywhere between 12 and 14 hours later. And when it goes down that's it, night has fallen (thud).

I really don't see the point of it, and agree with eneit that city people are definitely different!

[celtic_songster]

*cheers*

Type it, sistah, it frustrates the heck out of me! This is the first year Indiana has to obey the ridiculousness, and I fully feel like egging Daniels' statehouse in protest. Time is relative. Leave it alone.