My Time Zone is better than yours!!!

[underpants]

Since those lazy shiftless liberal LEFT coasters are probably here now (they always are it seems) I think we need a discussion of what you like and dislike about the time zone you live in.

Whether it be Eastern, Central, and...uh.....oh yeah Pacific what are the advantages/disadvantages of where you live.

I would LOVE to have football games come on at 10AM-that would be fantastic. I do have to say that it feels nice that the sun likes my time zone-Eastern- the most so it shines on us first.

[yvr girl]

1. Pacific Time zone rocks

Bush's silly press conferences don't interrupt prime time TV, we don't have to stay up late for the Oscars, lots of interesting stuff has usually happened by the time we get up - so there's lots to discuss around the water cooler, we get to talk about y'all after you've gone to bed, the sun may kiss you first, but it kisses us last.

[Seabiscuit]

7. The one Left Coast disadvantage:

The stupid TV pundits call the national elections before our polls close!!! Asshats!

[yvr girl]

12. That was illegal in Canada until the last election

They couldn't broadcast any election results in an area until the polls closed. They couldn't even post them on Canadian websites. We'd turn on the news at 8 pm and be greeted with, "We'd like to welcome BC to the broadcast, the CBC is predicted a Liberal majority..."

For our last election they changed the rules. They staggered poll times across the country. Everyone had 12 hours to vote, but they opened later in the east and earlier in the west. The results were broadcast everywhere as they came in. I liked it better. This time because we ended up with a minority government, the east coasters had to stay up late for us to vote/count. :evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. I'll just say, how right you are, yvr girl!

Could NOT have stated it any better than you did!


:loveya:


:pals:

[Mutley]

2. EST ROCKS!

[crispini]

3. Central is great.

You're only an hour off from NYC and two hours from CA. Both very easy to do business with. Also, I get Olbermann at 7pm -- just arriving home from work -- and the rerun at 11, perfect if I've been to a post-work meeting, but not too late to stay up for.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. I'll have to readjust to Central Time after a 5-year absence!

I'm sure I'll forget and miss my favorite shows, but then again, I shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a TV for the next two months anyway, so...

[crispini]

8. Rightho, no TV for you.

Hey, I met some more nice Democratic judicial candidates at our DCDP meeting last night. We're gonna have a great crop. Lots of women, too, yay!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

11. Good!!

Maybe they'll need law clerks (if elected)??

[crispini]

13. I would think so.

Volunteering for a campaign is a great way to network! :7

[tjwmason]

5. The whole world is set around us

Greenwich Mean Time - the original and the best.

[underpants]

6. Oooh a hoyfalloy European

Well excuse us we don't have a KING!

[Seabiscuit]

9. But we have a boy-emperor who likes to play dress-up!

[yvr girl]

15. But standardized time was invented in Canada

(and time zones too.)

[tjwmason]

18. I didn't know that

G.M.T. was created by the railways as folk would set their watches by the local time, which varied a fair amount across the country as a whole and so people missed trains; at first it was referred to as 'railway time'. As a fairly random aside, the clock on Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, does not run to G.M.T. but to 'Cathedral time' which is about 2 minutes out from the rest of the country.

Anyway, we owned Canada back then, and so they had to fit in with our time - along with the rest of the world. And you're all measured from us as well.

[yvr girl]

20. I agree that GMT is the centre of the time universe but...

"The Father of Standard Time"

Prior to standard time, the world told time by the position of the sun. Noon was when the sun was directly overhead. This method worked well for individual towns but it was not convenient for Sandford Fleming.

Fleming was the Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway and he found the existing times chaotic for organizing trains, their arrival and departure times. Passengers would carry several pocket watches, each one labeled for a different city. Station-masters also found it inconvenient.

Fleming felt the solution to his railway woes was the adoption of a universal method of time that would work in Canada and around the world. he first publicly presented this idea while lecturing in Toronto at the Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Scientific Knowledge. He recommended 24 time zones, world wide.

As with most new and unique ideas, it was rejected by governments and scientists. Some people even felt he was interfering with nature and God, they called him a Communist! Through Fleming's explanations and tenacious attitude, official approval came and standard time went into effect on January 1st, 1885.

[billyskank]

24. Pedant alert:

"Noon was when the sun was directly overhead."

Where I live, and I suspect where you live too, the sun is never directly overhead!

You mean when the sun is at its zenith! :)

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[ghostsofgiants]

10. The first time zone in North America to hit the New Year is kinda cool

And getting to see some shows before anyone else in North America is cool too. (Local stations show certain shows before the rest of the continent, even the Eastern time zone, does).

Also: we're a half-hour time zone...has to count for something.

[phusion]

14. You forgot Mountain...

Which is one of the advantages to living here: We are usually forgotten.

Move along. Nothing to see here... :)

[Left Is Write]

16. You forgot Mountain.

And yes, I agree - your time zone is better than mine.

My favorite time zone is the Central time zone, but my next choice would be Eastern.

I'm in the Mountain time zone, west enough that we're very close to the Pacific time zone. In the summer, it stays light too late. They don't even start the 4th of July fireworks until around 11:30.

I don't like having to watch the network news on tape delay, though the advantage to that is that I can watch both ABC World News Tonight (on at 5:00 locally) AND NBC Nightly News (on at 5:30 locally). I'd prefer to watch it live, though.

[underpants]

19. LOL- phusion and Left

I meant to do that. Rick Reiley (Sports Illustrated) wrote yet another hilarious article a few years back about growing up in the Mountain time zone. He said that you had to be good at math because they never mentioned what time a TV show came on in mountain. He said basically the same thing as phusion.....leave us alone nothing to see here.

I was going to put in the original post that I spent a week in Salt Lake City once and it was great. The Bulls/Jazz game came on at 6 and Letterman came on at 9:30, but that would have ruined the joke.

[Left Is Write]

21. Primetime TV comes on at 7:00.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Michigan EST is the best...because we're actually close to Central

and so, in summer the sun doesn't set until 9:30ish. :P

[KamaAina]

23. Hawai'i: Contains NO Daylight Savings Time.

Football games come on at 7; the late game comes on at 10.

Bush**'s incoherent ravings are pau while I'm still in the cubicle.

And none of this "Spring ahead, fall back" madness. Just as well, since we must often turn to the mainland for seasonal indicators (ads for cold and flu remedies mean winter is coming on, etc.)

[underpants]

25. What time do they play the bowl game out there?

9AM?

[KamaAina]

27. Around 2 in the afternoon

so the EST folks get it in prime time.

UH normally plays its home games at night, when it isn't so hot; you pretty much have to wait till the next morning to get the score.

[maveric]

26. Monday Night Football at 6:00 PM? Love it!

I was back on the east coast during the NCAA final basketball game and was a bit shocked that it started at 9:30 PM!
I LOVE PST!