#Time Zone

[nobrashfestivity]

Wilfried “Sätty” Podriech, from Time Zone (1973)

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[savagechickens]

Jetlag.

And more travel.

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Time Zone (1984)

John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa

[quirky-vg]

From: Time Zone

[mandragoraeart]

missing

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Time is weird. So is space. I hope ours match again someday. - Episode 24, Welcome to Night Vale

[scotianostra]

January 29th 1848 saw the first adoption of GMT by Scotland. The subject has been the source of controversy ever since.

The change had broadly taken place south of the Border from September the previous year with those in Edinburgh living 12 and-a-half minutes behind the new standard time as a result.

The discrepancy grew the further west you moved, with the time in Glasgow some 17 minutes behind GMT. In Ayr the time difference was 18-and-a-half minutes with it rising to 19 minutes in the harbour town of Greenock. All these lapses were ironed out over night on January 29th 1848, but the move wasn’t without controversy as some resisted the move away from local time.

Sometimes referred to as natural time, it had long been determined by sundials and observatories and later by charts and tables which outlined the differences between GMT and local time at various locations across the country. But the need for a standard time measurement was broadly agreed upon given the surge in the number of rail services and passengers with different local times causing confusion, missed trains and even accidents as trains battled for clearance on single tracks.

An editorial in The Scotsman on Saturday, January 28th, 1848, said: “It is a mistake to think that in the country generally the change will be felt as a grievance in any degree. “Probably nine-tenths of those who have clocks and watches believe that their local time is the same with Greenwich time, and will be greatly surprise to learn that the two are not identical. “Even if they wished to keep local time, they want the means.

“Observatories are only found in two or three of our Scottish towns. “As for the sundials in use, their number is small, most of them, too, are made by incompetent persons and even when correctly constructed, the task of putting them up and adjusting them to the meridian is generally left to an ignorant mason, who perhaps takes the mid-day hour from the watch in his fob.” Can you imagine a Mason putting up with being called ignorant in this day and age!

The editorial added: “For the sake of convenience, we sacrifice a few minutes and keep this artificial time in preference to sundial time, which some call natural time, and if the same convenience counsels us to sacrifice a few minutes in order to keep one uniform time over the whole country, why should it not be done!”

Mariners had long observed Greenwich Mean Time and kept at least one chronometer set to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was considered to have a longitude of zero degrees. The move to enforce it as the common time measurement was made by the Railway Clearing House in September 1847.

Some rail companies had printed GMT timetables much sooner. The Great Western Railway deployed the standard time in 1840 given that passengers on its service between London to Bristol, then the biggest trading port with the United States, faced a time difference of 22 minutes between its departure and arrival point.

Rory McEvoy, curator of horology at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said travel watches of the day had two sets of hands, one gold and one blue steel, to help measure changes in local time during a journey.

Maps also depicted towns with had adopted GMT and those which had not, he added. "There was information out there for determine the local time difference so they would know the offset to apply to GMT before the telegraphic distribution of time.”

Mr McEvoy said different towns and cities in Scotland would have had their own time differences before adoption of GMT. Old local time measurements show that Edinburgh was four-and-a-half minutes ahead of that in Glasgow, for example.

Mr McEvoy added: “I think it is fair to say there was no real concept of these differences at the time. It was when communication began to expand quite rapidly that it became f an issue. I think generally, you would be quite happy that the time of day was your local time.”

In this day in age we takeGMT, for granted, but try and think of how it would have worked in this day and age, and the confusion that would reign!

[andrew-nobody]

What time zone r u in?

EST. Living in Brooklyn, NYC currently.

[mxnkeydo]

same time zones?? it's 10:14 for me wbu mutuals

[pr1nc3-ed]

shit, I was late here, it's october 4th now

[rurik-dmitrienko]

Time Zone By Rurik Dmitrienko

[mysterygrl20]

Star Hunter is casting for two upcoming bls for fall 2024

Fakfah Napalai | The drama follows the story of two brothers, Fakfah and Napalai. Fakfah, the popular and successful older twin, is a stark contrast to his ordinary and slow-to-learn younger brother, Napalai. Despite constant comparisons, the twins share a deep bond. Napalai's peaceful life takes a sudden turn when he's tricked into attending a dinner with a famous businessman. During the dinner, a drunken moment where he behaves like a cat leads to unexpected consequences, and now Kinn, the businessman, refuses to let him go! (BLupdate)

Time Zone | When Time, a junior from the lowest-ranking class, crosses paths with Zone, the top-class student council president, their opposite worlds collide. Caught skipping class, Time misses his chance to make amends and ends up in the disciplinary office. What starts as a grudge turns into playful teasing, leading to an unexpected kiss between the two. As their relationship deepens, it extends into their university years. (BLupdate)

[random-xpressions]

Soul zone: to gravitate in the same velocity, to feel attracted to each other's energy fields, to vibrate on same frequency, a sense of nearness despite the physical distances, a deep spiritual union though separated by mountains and seas, profound ability to connect beyond words, a divine proximity not experienced with anyone else...

So are you of my same soul zone?

Random Xpressions

[ashsimpsalot]

Tumblr needs to stop scamming me on notifications. I'm here, wagging my tail like a puppy, waiting for any of my mutual to wake up and start interacting with any posts, start posting content of dev. STARTS TALKING IN GENERAL

Because I live on the other side of the globe and it's nighttime for me....

If my mutuals are reading this. Hi baby did you have a good sleep? Go eat food. Have a nice day at work if you're working. ❤️❤️I'm not sure what you're doing. I love you hehe