Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] opening bell
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:42:50 -0700
References: <MNELJONCHOKNFLMBFJCCGELJCBAA.kitmc@acmefoto.com>

Kit

No,  there are some time zones that are off the adjacent ones by
half an hour (30 minutes) and there are some off by a quarter of
an hour (15 minutes).

I don't know of any that are off by a FEW minutes.

Jerry

Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote:

> Kind of like Arizona, right? They don't change their clocks when the rest of
> us do!
>
> "Time" is so relative anyway. Apprently in the 19th century clocks were
> often many minutes, if not hours, off, since there was no standardization of
> "time." Only when railroads started to take root did the clock become
> important. I wish we had the railroads now!
>
> Kit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> grduprey@rockwellcollins.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 11:45 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] opening bell
>
> Kit
>
> It may be Kiribati, but there is a group of islands in the Pacific where
> teh time is off from the rest of the world by several minutes.  It is some
> sort of Political thing.  This was made known when we had all of the hoopla
> over the turn of the century a few years back.
>
> Gene
>
>                       "Kit McChesney | acmefoto"
>                       <kitmc@acmefoto.com>                To:
> <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>                       Sent by:                            cc:
>                       owner-leica-users@mejac.palo        Subject:  RE:
> [Leica] opening bell
>                       -alto.ca.us
>
>                       04/24/2003 11:42 AM
>                       Please respond to
>                       leica-users
>
> Brian--
>
> How can it be 6:01 anywhere, when it's 10:40 here? I can never figure that
> one out.
>
> Kit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:01 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] opening bell
>
> In the village of Kiritimati, in the Christmas Islands, in
> the country of Kiribati, it is just after sunrise (06:01)
> on Friday, so the Leica Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is
> officially open for business.
>
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