Bold Rover Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 7 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Bowie found. I kiss you, You're beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Flying sucks the boaby. After 2 hours I'm ready for getting off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 6 minutes ago, Bold Rover said: I kiss you, You're beautiful. Thanks m8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 34 minutes ago, Fullerene said: On one occasion, I crossed the International Date Line on a flight from Japan to Anchorage where the airplane refueled before continuing on to Europe. At Anchorage, I was able to say "At this time today I was at Tokyo Zoo and it was true." On another occasion, on a flight to New Zealand, I crossed the International Date Line at midnight and went from Thursday straight into Saturday. I am not sure if that makes me a day older or a day younger or what. So you lost that Friday? Careless. This reminds me of the Calendar Riots when the calendar moved from Julian to Gregorian and this meant everyone "lost" eleven days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 3 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Thanks m8. I want you to walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 2 hours ago, th1stleandr0se said: OK, so I have a race round the world with my brother and I go one way and he goes the other. I spend the first night in India, the second in Japan, the third in LA, the fourth in New York and the fifth back in the UK. We leave at the start of the month so I stay in India on the 1st, Japan the 2nd but as I cross the International Date Line between Japan and LA it means that I will stay in LA on the 2nd as well. New York on the 3rd and back in the UK on the 4th. My brother stays in New York on the 1st, LA on the 2nd but as he's crossing the International Date Line the other way he stays in Japan on the 4th, India on the 5th and back in the UK on the 6th. So I've beaten him by 2 days. The flights were exactly the same length for arguments sake. There is a logical explanation for this but it can really mess your mind up trying to figure it out. By the way has anyone here actually crossed the International Date Line? Your brother gets enough time in New York, LA, Japan and India that he might actually get away from the airport and see the place. By comparison, you arrive late in all these places and probably need to stay at an airport hotel without dinner because you have to get up the next day for a very early flight to the next place. If your brother was thinking about going into the travel business - it might be an idea. You definitely should not even consider it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 1 minute ago, Bold Rover said: I want you to walk. David Bowie, your deid, your deid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 I was in the States when the clocks changed, except that the UK changed one week before the States. Add that to travel across date lines and I could never remember what time it would be in the UK. Finally, we went into Arizona which is the only state which doesn't move the clocks but we were staying in the Navajo reservation which does! We picked the very day the clocks should/shouldn't be changing to go there. Impressively, my phone kept me right. It adjusted correctly, depending on where we were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 3 minutes ago, Fullerene said: Your brother gets enough time in New York, LA, Japan and India that he might actually get away from the airport and see the place. By comparison, you arrive late in all these places and probably need to stay at an airport hotel without dinner because you have to get up the next day for a very early flight to the next place. If your brother was thinking about going into the travel business - it might be an idea. You definitely should not even consider it. Aye but I won the race. You're right in your analysis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 26 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: What time is it on the poles? Is it all time? Is it no time at all? Seb Coe could run round in circles round a pole back to a time that he wasn't a cúnt, probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 34 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: What time is it on the poles? Is it all time? Is it no time at all? Apparently it is most of them. Must be incredibly difficult to organize a birthday party and somebody told me it gets lots of snow in the winter time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 35 minutes ago, th1stleandr0se said: So you lost that Friday? Careless. This reminds me of the Calendar Riots when the calendar moved from Julian to Gregorian and this meant everyone "lost" eleven days. Some people would have jumped straight to their birthday. Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 47 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: David Bowie, your deid, your deid. We've got five years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB1994 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 3 hours ago, Fullerene said: Apparently it is most of them. Must be incredibly difficult to organize a birthday party and somebody told me it gets lots of snow in the winter time. Flat earth thread for this pish etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugna Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 12 hours ago, Zen Archer said: Seb Coe could run round in circles round a pole back to a time that he wasn't a cúnt, probably. If such a time existed. Which it didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 So I've beaten him by 2 days. The flights were exactly the same length for arguments sake. There is a logical explanation for this but it can really mess your mind up trying to figure it out. Occam's Razor suggests that you went through Schipol whereas he went to Heathrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 I passed through the date timeline from Fiji to LA, meant I had 2 hangovers on one day. Marvelous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 16 hours ago, th1stleandr0se said: So you lost that Friday? Careless. This reminds me of the Calendar Riots when the calendar moved from Julian to Gregorian and this meant everyone "lost" eleven days. You remember that? You must be some age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 18 hours ago, th1stleandr0se said: So you lost that Friday? Careless. This reminds me of the Calendar Riots when the calendar moved from Julian to Gregorian and this meant everyone "lost" eleven days. 'Many people mistakenly believed their lives would be shortened by 11 days' . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted March 7, 2018 Author Share Posted March 7, 2018 8 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: You remember that? You must be some age. I am some age. Definitely one of the oldest on here. And, really, I should be 11 days older. On a serious note though, Scotland seems to have changed calendars about 150 years before England and the Union of the Parliaments took place during that time, which means that some events are recorded as different dates by the two countries. Add to that the fact that the year number only changed on the 5th of April, not January 1st, and you have a really confusing scenario for anyone looking at the dates of old documents from that period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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