Bye Cellies! AG is working 100% fine again!
 

... and hey, turn your clocks ahead tonight!

HA HA HA, that is tooo funny!

Here in Australia, if you play an April Fool's prank/joke after lunchtime...the prankER is the Fool :p

Although the extra hour sleep was lovely.

Don't you lose an hour sleep with the "spring ahead" deal?

Although, I sleep as late as I like.

Our Daylight Savings just ended :D

Oh yeah!

Cute Steve ;)



so it is "Spring Back ~ Fall Forward" down under?

Not quite Cheyenne.

We have just started Autumn (Fall) here.

So we do the Spring forward, Fall back bizo, just been there done that already :)

I actually dislike this time of year as it makes it harder to converse with my *above the equator* mates. Damn timezones.

ah yeah...duh!

but you are falling back during our Spring. :P *is not completely blonde* haha

so at Christmas, do you get an aluminum foil tree and stick it in sand on the beach? ;)

would be nice to visit during our winter :)

An al foil tree would melt here on Christmas day!!

Gotta love spray on snow and plastic trees.

I am sure I will give you some competition in the *blonde moments* stakes...just you wait and see.

hey, i was 1/2 correct!

"Ducksnuts" i like.

reminds me of a restaurant we used to frequent. on the menu were "Turkey Nuts" we asked "what are turkey nuts?" waitress replies "nuts of turkey" lol!

we ordered them all the time there after. quite tasty i might add. *looks at duck and licks lips*

Can't do that here - The Europeans dictate we do it last FULL weekend in March so happened last week (that's Europe for you - the only ones in step!) - can't face losing yet another hour of shuteye.

Nice 'April Fool'....

One of our papers here got a few going - showed a pic of the PM's door being swapped from a black one (250 years of tradition about to go here) , to one that was Commie red. No need to say that they don't support the incumbent New Labour government....(I know, I needn't have said)

Cyclefrance - we usually change our clocks the last weekend as well, but *they* decided to extend DLS for the Commonwealth games that have just finished.

Dammit!

Do people in Alaska really need daylight savings?

Does anybody really need daylight savings? :eyebrow:

Nope.

Here in Florida we do... gives us a chance to get those yards mowed in the afternoon after a day at work... this allows us to free up our weekends... :p

ya know, i heard tell that the Mayans got some kinda calendar,....

And i think we're suppose to be all dead this year, or some kind of bad things gonna happen.

Yeah, I really want to set my clock ahead to lose an hours' worth of life.

Of course the truth is you don't gain or lose anything, really. It's all just juggling the books.

i like late days. i can get a lot more done outside.

time is relative and a human invention

Weeks are the only truly arbitrary time designation. In a way.

I'd go the other way. Only days and years are not arbitrary. You can make a case for months, but we don't really follow lunar months, so that's arbitrary too.

24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. All seem pretty arbitrary to me.

1 day makes sense, 1 year makes sense. the rest can be accounted for by degrees on a sphere. the sun moves 15° accross the sky every hour. or 0.25° every minute

how can weeks be accounted for? couldn't there be two weeks every month, if they were 14 days long each?

dividing the lunar cycle by 4. which it has 4 main phases anyway

Hmmmm... sounds logical.

Standardized time began with the railroads. :)

The size of the space shuttle had to comply with the size of certain train tunnels in the U.S. so it could be transported on a train during construction.

On the 7th day he rested. Probably where weeks come from. :2cents:

Well, wished "he" had rested every third day. (and for two of those three days, ya need the "weekend" time off)

the phases of the moon were around long before god was invented.

Moon phases don't give us weeks....not even months, for that matter, only menstrual cycles. :(

and tide marks....