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ALOHA IRL 

(In Real Time)

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- 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

"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.

Calculations then yielded

longitudinal position
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 

Gimbaled Deck-Watch Chronometer  

Circa 1942

Has been called: "The clock that won the war."

" The present is a point just passed.  "
David Russell
 

 Are YOU West of Greenwich
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

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

that we here

create

and inhabit.
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 America

Thank YOU for journeying here.

What time is it in your life? 

                                              Warmly, cloudia