Comments on: Frame Of Reference

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:22:11 +0000

Blame the Babylonians, they’re the ones that thought base 60 was a convenient system.

My current LCD supports two time zones, so it is set for Central and UTC.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:38:27 +0000

argh!movable bezels!that's even worse. i'm just going to go throw myself off a cliff now. there are a lot of things in this world that are circular, but time isn't one of them. hipparchia´s last blog post..

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:06:25 +0000

Shemya was just to the East of the Dateline, so I had an advantage of a lot of practice, especially when certain events were tagged by the local date and time. I also wore two watches – one set to the GMT/UTC and the other tracked my local and target local times with a movable bezel back in analog days.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:22:27 +0000

…regularly flew into tomorrow and landed yesterday, and I kept up with it.

yes, but did you do so standing on your head? i never had any trouble with the flipping of north and south, but the time warp of the international dateline always throws me. always. i suppose this is as good a place as any to confess that i never would have learned to tell time if they hadn’t invented digital clocks.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:53:36 +0000

I get annoyed because I once flew around the world on a regular basis and took these changes in stride without thinking about them. Flying out of Alaska you regularly flew into tomorrow and landed yesterday, and I kept up with it.

By: Jim Bales

Jim Bales — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:32:18 +0000

Bryan,

That is an easy reversal to make. In the mid-70’s my family lived in Geelong, some 100-200 miles from where the worst of the fires are. over 3 winters we would see frost on the ground a few mornings each year, but I don’t recall it ever snowing where we were.

Summers had rather hot stretches, but nothing then remotely like they have been the last several years.

Best,
Jim

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:28:56 +0000

The size wasn’ t my problem, it was the North-South thing, and I am aware of it when I think about it because of friends from Chile and Argentina who would borrow cold weather gear to go camping on trips home. They got rid of their stuff when they moved to the US. There is a reason a company named Patagonia sells cold weather gear, and people wear knitted hats with ear-flaps.

You learn it in school and forget it in real life.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:34:29 +0000

Oh! One other point I intended to make... People often misunderstand the size of the Australian mainland. It's roughly the same size as the USA mainland, and is the World's 6th largest country, and the largest country that inhabits it's own continent. Here are some images that help understand the relative sizes: Australia's Size Compared

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:27:43 +0000

Ehhh… Don’t be too hard on yourself. 🙂 Frames of reference are always difficult. I have to constantly adjust my thinking when commenting about things in the Southern hemisphere. But I guess I have the advantage of having lived there for awhile. Used to confuse me actually, for awhile. 🙂

That’s why I added to my comment a couple days ago to try to explain why this is a particularly severe summer for us *down South*. 🙂 We are supposed to have a *mild* climate! Someone forgot to explain that to Mother Nature, obviously. 🙂