[Groop]Re: Groop digest, Vol 1 #485 - 18 msgs

[Rick Loomis]

At 12:00 PM 2/21/02 -0800, you wrote:
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>Life is so much easier when GMT passes about three miles south of your
>back-garden - I don't think I could cope living in a country with multiple
>time zones...  What happens if you live in one state and work in another
>that's in a different zone.. you could conceivably drive an hour to work and
>be at your desk instantaneously and by the time you arrive home everyone
>else is an hour older than you (can't you just tell that I have just put NO
>thought into this !!)   What happens when one side of a street is in one
>zone and the other is ahead/behind of you ???  I would imagine that there is
>a "fudge" area between the two where everyone for several miles (?) has to
>work much longer hours... ?
>
>My head hurts.. I'm going to bed.
>
>Mark ("Time" is the passing of the moment and "Life" is but an illusion)
>Brown.


I have often flown to California from Phoenix, and arrived shortly before I
left. Sadly, I haven't yet figured out how to see what numbers win the
lottery, and then buy a ticket an hour earlier. 

If you think multiple time zones are confusing, how about Daylight Savings
Time? Especially when the rest of the country goes on DST, and Arizona does
not. Most of the year, Arizona is one hour later than California, except
when California goes on DST, then Arizona is the same time as California.
But not all of Arizona refuses DST. The Navajo indian reservation (the
largest indian reservation in the USA) goes on DST along with the rest of
the country, so even tho they are in the SAME time zone as me, part of the
year they are an hour different from me. Except for the Hopi indian
reservation which is INSIDE the Navajo indian reservation. The Hopi's go
along with the rest of Arizona, so there is one small town in the middle of
the Navajo indian reservation that is on a different time zone than the
surrounding countryside. I think that's why most Indians don't wear watches!
Rick Loomis
Flying Buffalo Inc  www.flyingbuffalo.com
PO Box 1467, Scottsdale, AZ 85252
480-945-6917 fax 480-994-1170