Yearround Daylight Saving Time
Jul 31, 2023 19:56:40 #
SteveR wrote:
I did find it. For as many rooms as there are, do you have a nice lounge area and library?
The “Lara” will be the new name of the AIDAAura. There are many video tours of the ship. And yes, plenty of space for the few hundred who will be aboard.
Aug 3, 2023 20:32:27 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Same thing. Just do it earlier when it's light out. There is nothing said you must follow certain time.
Right! Unless you are punching in on a time clock for work, you don't need a watch. Your garden / yard can't tell time anyway. You will be working according to available light, which we happen to have less of during winter months, and more during summer, regardless of a clock reading. I'm retired so it's a mute point for me.
Aug 17, 2023 14:22:28 #
I'm with you Jerry, that extra hour of daylight is burning up my corn!!
Aug 17, 2023 14:31:14 #
cameranut wrote:
Right! Unless you are punching in on a time clock for work, you don't need a watch. Your garden / yard can't tell time anyway. You will be working according to available light, which we happen to have less of during winter months, and more during summer, regardless of a clock reading. I'm retired so it's a mute point for me.
And even when I punch the clock my employer allows me to work my time. You don't change the ruler because you want to make something longer or shorter.
Aug 17, 2023 14:50:27 #
BebuLamar wrote:
And even when I punch the clock my employer allows me to work my time. You don't change the ruler because you want to make something longer or shorter.
Oh c’mon… 15 cm sounds better than 6 inches!
Aug 17, 2023 15:11:04 #
JohnFrim wrote:
Oh c’mon… 15 cm sounds better than 6 inches!
I will say that metric makes a hellofalotmoresense.
Aug 17, 2023 15:14:17 #
Blurryeyed wrote:
I will say that metric makes a hellofalotmoresense.
I agree. But as I have quipped my US friends for years, when America finally goes metric I hope they choose the same size litre as the rest of the world.
Aug 17, 2023 15:43:01 #
JohnFrim wrote:
I agree. But as I have quipped my US friends for years, when America finally goes metric I hope they choose the same size litre as the rest of the world.
It was tried and flopped.
Aug 17, 2023 16:30:31 #
JohnFrim wrote:
I agree. But as I have quipped my US friends for years, when America finally goes metric I hope they choose the same size litre as the rest of the world.
Metric is all base 10, I don't even know how you would express what base the US system of measurements is.
Aug 17, 2023 16:46:03 #
SteveR wrote:
It was tried and flopped.
I remember my sister when she was about 14 saying, "12 inches to the foot, 3 feet to the yard, 5-1/2 yards to the rod, 5,280 feet to the mile... but this metric system of 10, 10, 10... I just don't get it."
Aug 17, 2023 19:29:14 #
JohnFrim wrote:
I remember my sister when she was about 14 saying, "12 inches to the foot, 3 feet to the yard, 5-1/2 yards to the rod, 5,280 feet to the mile... but this metric system of 10, 10, 10... I just don't get it."
I think we just preferred what we had.
Aug 17, 2023 20:11:32 #
SteveR wrote:
I think we just preferred what we had.
Not me. You're welcome to imperial's fractions. When I learned my trade in LA in the 70s, we were taught the 'decimal foot' so we could use our calculators. That was a step in the right direction but not good enough.
A mm is smaller than 1/16 so for me, a bump in casual working precision and ease of mental calculations. The trades here don't use cm, only mm and metres ex: 1.4m or 1400mm. American steel string guitars and mandos brought me kicking and screaming back to imperial, the other stringed instruments are metric.
The red hand is mm the black hand is 1/100s of a mm, pretty simple.
Aug 17, 2023 20:52:07 #
SteveR wrote:
I think we just preferred what we had.
Seriously, Steve, trying to justify "what we had" is as silly as supporting Trump. The evidence of what/who is good/bad is staring people in the face, but for some reason Americans/MAGAs are willing to fight tooth and nail for a cumbersome/dumb system/person.
Aug 17, 2023 22:08:34 #
JohnFrim wrote:
Seriously, Steve, trying to justify "what we had" is as silly as supporting Trump. The evidence of what/who is good/bad is staring people in the face, but for some reason Americans/MAGAs are willing to fight tooth and nail for a cumbersome/dumb system/person.
Whatever. I remember the signage in miles AND kilometers. No more. However the 100 yard dash and the mile run are no more.
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