I don't have such a fancy wristwatch. But look at what you had to do because of Patrick's habit. It wouldn't hurt Patrick to simply post the times in our regular old time zone style and let these highly tuned-in astronomers do the conversions if they insist on knowing when it happens in UT. After all, they're good at doing in their heads. That seems more reasonable. Patrick? Patrick? You hoo -- Patrick .... On Thursday, December 5, 2013 2:01 PM, M Wilson <astro_outwest@yahoo.com> wrote: I solved the UT to MT time conversion problem by simply adding UT as the secondary time on my wrist watch. When Patrick posts an event in UT, I simply press the upper right button on my watch and figure it out from there. ________________________________ From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] U.S. students fail to crack top 20 If I sound like a grumpy old man, it's because I am. I actually don't have trouble converting km. into mi. or cm. into in., etc. But I do have trouble with time conversions to UTC because, for some strange reason, I can never remember if we're on Daylight Savings Time or regular time in any given month. And then if I do find out, I can't remember if England is minus six hours from Silly Time or regular time. Finally, for purely patriotic reasons, I hate it when people (PATRICK, are you reading?) try to force km., cm., UTC, etc. down the throats of perfectly well-adjusted Americans who prefer our own measurement units. Why should we kowtow to anybody? I don't give a damn what units the British use; we fought our revolution so we didn't have to call anybody Your Majesty or use no stinkin' kilometers on our traffic signs! On Thursday, December 5, 2013 11:59 AM, daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote: I feel the same way about adults who can't make the simple conversion from Universal Time to Mountain Daylight Time, especially if they consider themselves astronomers. I'm not a math wizard but I've made it a point to learn how to make important conversions in my head, like miles to kilometers, Fahrenheit to Celsius and UT to either MDT or MST. I didn't master these skills until I was in my 50's. We need to be careful when we grumble about "the kids these days". We may sound like grumpy old men. DT
________________________________ From: Bruce Hugo <bruce.hugo@yahoo.com> To: "utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] U.S. students fail to crack top 20
Back on Nov 22nd, I purchased dinner and it came to $6.03. I gave the cashier $10.05 and she says "oh shit!" and walks off, rummages around, rummages around and finally finds a calculator. She entered $10.00 in the register before I handed her the change so the register didn't tell her what change to give me. I started to say something but decided to let it ride... it took her 3 tries on the calculator to come up with the correct change to give me. Sad.
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