ALOHA IRL
(In Real Time)
Good Morning - Good Afternoon -
- Good Evening -
or Happy Tomorrow
- Good Evening -
or Happy Tomorrow
Time? A trick Question!
"Traveling is almost
like talking with men
of other centuries."
René Descartes
" Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. "
Henry David Thoreau
" Time is money. "
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
"Travel penetrates your consciousness,
but not in a rational way."
Milton Glaser
In 1714
England's Parliament offered a large cash prize
for the solution to the problem of longitude.
Once at sea
all sailors, except the Polynesians,
(click HERE for more on them)
were essentially lost.
John Harrison
created a marine clock
perfect enough to keep accurate time
on high seas in the age of sail.
Something not yet available
on land at the time!
The Royal Observatory at Greenwich
was designated
ZERO.
Hence, every place on Earth
could be designated
Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT) plus or minus.
(GMT) plus or minus.
Calculations then yielded
longitudinal position
anywhere in the world.
anywhere in the world.
When my friends in Great Britain
are going online at 9am Tuesday
it is still 11pm Monday
here in my Hawaii.
(HST = Hawaiian Standard Time
HST is constant throughout the year.
When I get down to business at 9am
it is already 2pm in New York.
3pm in Summer!
(Daylight Saving Time = DST)
U.S. Navy Hamilton W.W. II era
Circa 1942
Has been called: "The clock that won the war."
" The present is a point just passed. "
David Russell
David Russell
Are YOU West of Greenwich
like me?
like me?
Or Are YOU East of Greenwich?
What once was a sign of
cultural achievement
and an age of empire
is today an agreed-upon
standard
of convenience to ALL.
We understand
that the same
sky belongs
that the same
sky belongs
to all of us.
" A vision of truth
which does not call upon us
to get out of our armchair -
why, this is the desideratum of mankind! "
John Jay Chapman
Why such is the
blogosphere (!)
that current, but timeless
world
world
that we here
create
and inhabit.
incidentally:
incidentally:
On November 18, 1883 the US established local standard time zones.
Before that, time could vary from town to town,
which didn't matter so much until railroads
brought the future to rural AmericaThank YOU for journeying here.
What time is it in your life?
Warmly, cloudia
35 comments:
Very nice work Cloudia...... my compliments.
wish all the best.
greetings, Joop
I notice you switched to HST for your blog. Previously, your time was ahead of Hawaii time. Nice to have you here, Cloudia. For non-Hawaii residents, GMT minus 10 equals HST.
Greetings from France (GMT) !
Pierre
I have been in SIT for decades. living in Standard Infinity Time has allowed me to escape the need for watch, clock or, calendar. Though I do look to the trials of others to keep me rooted as to what time it really is.
Interesting post today Cloudia. x
Il tuo Blog mi riporta sempre i ricordi del tempo passato in queste amate isole, spero arrivi presto agosto per tornare da loro...
Aloha
Stefano
I wish the clocks didn't change twice a year here in the UK. Right now it's pitch black at 4.30pm and before long it will be the same in the morning. It's supposed to help those in the far north as they get less daylight, but to be honest I think they'd be better off having their own local time, so that it's safer for them. For the rest of us, it's just not worth the impact in my view. My poor body clock is all askew at the moment and it's all because of the time change. getting an extra hour is great, but takes time to adjust to. ANd losing an hour in the spring is not so great, nad even harder to adjust to !
This is interesting. Lot of research done, great post.
What gets me is that there is no accepted law about daylight savings and folks went and changed it on us.
Yes, the same sky belongs to all of us.. wherever we are.. :)
8:38am - Eastern Standard Time. Which I wish they would just leave it as. :)
There is no time, no spoon..haha remember The Matrix?
Central Standard Time!
This sounds a lot like math ..
This is most interesting and a very special post Cloudia. Thank you. And it is really nice to see Live High here, I am happy.
That ship photo at top looks almost like the ship is on stilts over the land. Cool.
Aloha and Oh Happy Day to you as well, Cloudia! One of my most favorite things about having a chance to travel, is my return back to everyday life.....and what different feelings within me that I gained along my journey!
great info and post!
beautiful photos as usual, my sweet friend!
alohaaaaaa!!
Thank YOU for coming to my party
Thanks for the kind comment on my blog. I've been to Hawaii for a 2 week stint when I was in the Navy. It's a beautiful place!
such a fun post on time.... thank you
i love that the same sky belongs to all of us.
Posts of time and keeps turning.
Greetings from Spain.
haha WM...SIT time...i am EST...though travel as much of the beginning alluded is a fav of mine and exploring the new...
aloha from VA...
Time is infinite because nobody has reached the end. Its Wednesday 7.55 am DST :-).
East Europe, and nearly twenty past midnight over here.
Hot cup of tea and lemon, Lemons already getting yellow, Oranges turning orange as well. Greek autumn.
Please have a good Wednesday.
I love the clock/barometer, in fact, all of them.
The only quote I have difficulties with today is Benjamin Franklin. Probably because money is low on my priority list. You capture clouds so beautifully. Thank you.
This is all very cool, Cloudia. Love it! And I dig the Descartes quip, as icing on the time cake.
Actually got to see the Greenwich Observatory "somewhere in time."
It blows my little mind that our civilization's need for correct time down to the nanosecond has required such accuracy that it requires taking Einstein's theory of relatively into account. What's funny is that I know people who swear up and down Einstein is wrong because it goes against some aspect of the Bible for them but the absolutely love their GPS system which works in part because of Einstein's brilliant theory.
lovely. Time Passages is such a magical song.
And in France the time difference in summer is exactly twelve hours, so you have dinner at breakfast and breakfast at dinner time. Lunch does not work out though, because who wants to eat lunch at midnight?
Nice post today, Cloudia ! Got me thinking ...
Jolly!
And did you notice that our friend in Athens is 12 hours ahead of me?
Thanks for spending TIME here!
namaste at all times /\ from mumbai
aloha!!
such a beautiful post Cloudia. thank you.
Hubris and discovery. What little islands can do!
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