Tempus fugit Backwards
Tiny
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Yes it is off topic but did y'all turn your clocks back last night. Thank goodness my computer has a mind of it's own.
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My tower computer runs windows 2000 , it set itself back an hour 2 weeks ago.
I've snagged a ton of great coins on ebay since then scooping up buy nows 59 minutes before the rest of you could see the listings.
if wearing eagle feathers on the head makes one say things like that; does anyone know where i can still find some eagles
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We really just need to go to real time; international time and be done with all the nonsense. If you think
it's bad when you stay in one place you should see the hoops through which ships must jump to stay abreast
with local time and local laws. A ship can have to change its time three or four times a day and even its
calender. They can be in trouble if they come into port with the wrong time on their clocks. The real irony here
is that neither the ship's captain nor the local authorities are likely to know that midnight falls on no day at all
so if the port is expecting the ship at midnight on Thursday it might come late on Wednesday or late on Thurs-
day.
Maybe if we switched to real time we could get all the clocks agreeing with one another like they did up until
the computer came around. Internet time is some minutes off real time and each site misses internet time. You
can watch new years eve on almost every television channel because they all have different times and they're
all off significantly. Maybe if we got on the same time people would tired of moving the clock twice a year.
Franklin might have been joking when he suggested daylight savings time. He certainly had a dry sense of humor.