Where is everyone? Hello?!!!!

Yeti · May 23, 2002, 08:05 AM

You know i feel kinda left out here... I post all the time... BUT... no one else is ever on.

I figure this is because you guys are probably in a different time zone... so one thing led to another and i began to wonder where yall are. (other than zardon

)

I'm on the Eastern U.S. seaboard (Maryland).

shortstuff · May 23, 2002, 08:08 AM

Arkansas here. I used to live on the east coast as well, in fact I was born on the east coast in North Carolina. I lived in Virginia.

UberLord · May 23, 2002, 08:37 AM

Im in the UK - thats GMT + 0 to you guys/gals

Yeti · May 23, 2002, 09:16 AM

Hmmm... so whats that about 5 in the evening now there?

UberLord · May 23, 2002, 09:22 AM

As I post this its 16:30 and I'm bored @ work :/

Yeti · May 23, 2002, 09:29 AM

Well, if you work at work, then you wouldn't be bored now eh?
lol

UberLord · May 23, 2002, 09:43 AM

I just get bored fixing bugs - I'd rather be writing new code.

Also, after 5 years of coding VB and my company wants the next product to be in Java I really can't wait to get started on it!

Yeti · May 23, 2002, 11:26 AM

Java? man..... ITS ALL ABOUT THE MACHINE CODE!!!!!!!

11010011101010111010001010010010010010101010101000 1111101111111..... 2!!!!!!!

***Zardon*** · May 23, 2002, 11:36 AM

the forum is the busiest around 10pm-3am UK (GMT) time... must be the americans

Dejitaru Shuurajo · May 23, 2002, 11:58 AM

And those crazy Canucks. I'm located in Stoney Creek, which is in Southern Ontario, smack dab between Niagara Falls and Toronto.

digitalwanderer · May 23, 2002, 12:08 PM

I'm about 20 miles due south of Chicago, but time is pretty irrelevant to me since I started the Mom-thing and gave up sleep. ("Sleep causes cancer man, everybody knows that!" -Neil)

May 23, 2002, 12:11 PM

**bursts into song**

hey we're the Young ones ...... darling were the young ones ......

*gets carted off to mental institute*

Yeti · May 23, 2002, 12:28 PM

blah... that can't be... there's no one ever on while i'm on!!!

digitalwanderer · May 23, 2002, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Billy
**bursts into song**

hey we're the Young ones ...... darling were the young ones ......

*gets carted off to mental institute*

**bursts into song too**

the Young ones ...... "Shouldn't be afraid......"

To live...and love...

*gets big grin at happy memories and the fact that someone actually GOT it*

/////fuzzy hugs!

~~Crash Override~~ · May 23, 2002, 08:46 PM

hmm some of you are really dating yourselves with the song lyrics there hehe

I live in Washington State and its about 7:47 here (someone call Boeing)

Yeti · May 24, 2002, 08:56 AM

Boeing is in washington state.... or am i off my rocker again? >> well i'm pretty sure its out west somewhere....

DallasStar · May 24, 2002, 12:06 PM

Allen Texas USA (30 minutes from Dallas)

~~Crash Override~~ · May 24, 2002, 08:29 PM

Boeings HQ was up here till last year then they moved it to this building in Michigan or sumthing...not sure really *scratches head*

But yeah alot of the main Boeing stuff is still up here

Necrosis · May 25, 2002, 12:12 AM

I'm one hour north of Columbus and two hours south of Cleveland.

it's 2:12 AM here

Ryoko · May 28, 2002, 12:43 PM

i'm never on because i'm always drunk

AT_curiousB · May 28, 2002, 06:34 PM

I am from the UK, I do not care what time I am on, I do it when I feel like it.

BTW the UK is on British Summer Time at the moment, that is GMT+1 hour

Yeti · May 30, 2002, 11:12 AM

You know its not like we are at different times you know... everyone everywhere is at the same time.

I really don't understand the whole adjustment thing for the various time zones... matter of fact its confusing.

Look here... everywhere around the world its May whenever it is May... and its June whenever it is June ... right? So why not just say that (for the love of god) it is the same time everywhere. People will just adjust to it.... I mean July is winter in the southern hemisphere and everyone is ok with it!! I would be perfectly comfortable getting up at 3:30 PM... instead of 7:30 AM ... as long as i knew that it was exactly the same time everywhere else in the world. (universe)

Who's with me?

UberLord · May 30, 2002, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Yeti
I really don't understand the whole adjustment thing for the various time zones... matter of fact its confusing.

Actually its quite simple. It means that at a given time in each timezone, the sun is roughly in the same place along a given longitude. Longitude is a line that circles the earth at a set height (ie running east to west). Latitude is the same, but verticle and outside the scope of tbis hopefully simple explanation.

This is important, as the coming and going of the sun dictates our natural instincts as humans governing the time we wake, work, eat and sleep. Of course this excludes sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll which is also outside the scope of this still hopefully simple explanation.

Now, its simply rude to call someone up at 4:00am and start badgering them about which operating system to install because you just know they're gonna say "fsck /dev/hda5 -off". So knowing what timezone you and the person you want to/are currently dealing with is of great benefit from not offending and disturbing the vital sleep needed by todays youth.

Hope that clears that up for ya

Quote:

Look here... everywhere around the world its May whenever it is May... and its June whenever it is June ... right? So why not just say that (for the love of god) it is the same time everywhere. People will just adjust to it.... I mean July is winter in the southern hemisphere and everyone is ok with it!! I would be perfectly comfortable getting up at 3:30 PM... instead of 7:30 AM ... as long as i knew that it was exactly the same time everywhere else in the world. (universe)

Actually, we won't for the reasons I've highlighted above

Quote:

Who's with me?

Well, the rest of the human race is currently hoping that you will join us

Yeti · May 30, 2002, 11:40 AM

College Student <-------- me

I understand the methodology behind the creation of the time zones.

The point i am pushing is that having to adjust your watch/clock etc... for different time zones... (and thus creating a lot of confusion) ... just for the sake of being able to say "Oh hey John... I reckon it be 12:00 since the suns high"... IS NOT WORTH IT.

The simple fact of the matter is that it is 1:36 pm everywhere in the universe right now. Yep you heard me straight. Now the thing is people in london like to call it ... (and correct me if i'm wrong) .... 6:36!! Now... the distinction to me is quite small... and i would be happy to call this hour 6:36, 10:40, 234:356 or The Queen Of England...

The point is that we don't need to have this wierd synchronization of the clock with the sun. We can just adjust our own lives to wake up at 2:00PM and go to work from 3:00-12:00 instead of 9-5... (It would be rather silly and immature if we couldn't)....because there would be no adjustment to make. It would still be light... and we would still have coffee.

The only difference is that clocks EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD would read exactly the same... which would make life much simpler.... and would be much more in line with the idea that time is at exactly the same place everywhere.... LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well good luck reading all that... hope i got through....

Anyway.... so who's with me?

***Zardon*** · May 30, 2002, 11:42 AM

this thread reminds me of the times ive spent in a cafe in amsterdam emmmm

Ryoko · May 30, 2002, 11:45 AM

spamming your way to 1000, i see

when i joined, i thought i'd be first to 1000 with my 115 posts/day average, but i didn't want to flood the board. hmmm i wonder who did that