Happy New Year

[UncleEbenezer]

A second of time at our latitude is worth about 288-289 metres of longitude. That's less than my walk to the local supermarket. Do you adjust your watch whenever you go out?

Before the coming of the railways, you would indeed adjust your watch a few minutes if you travelled (say) from London to Bristol. So back then it might've made a bit more sense to adjust for the Earth's rotation.

Or just adjust the second instead

[jfgw]

A second of time at our latitude is worth about 288-289 metres of longitude. That's less than my walk to the local supermarket. Do you adjust your watch whenever you go out?

Before the coming of the railways, you would indeed adjust your watch a few minutes if you travelled (say) from London to Bristol. So back then it might've made a bit more sense to adjust for the Earth's rotation.

Or just adjust the second instead

Couldn't we just bolt some rockets around the equator and speed the earth up a bit? It would solve this leap second problem. It must cause a lot of problems with badly written software that is unable to cope with it :^) (Where's the "tongue in cheek" smiley?)

Julian F. G. W.

[Fatrav]

Uncle EB I think you need to get out more

[bungeejumper]

Before the coming of the railways, you would indeed adjust your watch a few minutes if you travelled (say) from London to Bristol.

Actually eleven minutes. Which would have been enough time to grab a bag of chips, read a chapter of Jane Austen, and bounce a laser beam off Brian Cox's bonce in a galaxy millions of billions of light years away**. And the bloody train would still have been late, so you needn't have bothered rushing to catch it in the first place.

BJ

**I may have made that bit up. Especially since it would actually have taken millions of billions of years times two for the beam to get there and back to earth.

[Rhyd6]

Eh??????? Couldn't understand nuffin' you said except of course the bit about Happy New Year and I second that ------ to one and all.

R6

[jfgw]

Actually eleven minutes. Which would have been enough time to grab a bag of chips, read a chapter of Jane Austen, and bounce a laser beam off Brian Cox's bonce in a galaxy millions of billions of light years away**.

You would lose your eleven minutes on the way back, though.

If you went to Bristol, whether you altered your watch would depend upon which minute hand you went by,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_t ... eclock.JPG

One hand shows local time and one shows "Railway time".

Julian F. G. W.

[shinygoldcar]

This thread sounds like where the New Year party on lemonfool is happening!

I'm watching the Hootenanny at mum's and brother's. Anyone doing anything more exciting (but not so exciting that you are out and offline)?

Happy New Year!

sgc

[PinkDalek]

Apparently we are not watching Pulp Fiction.

This being the second post on The Lemon Fool in 2017 (UK).

With thanks to stooz and Clariman for making it possible.

Hic.

PD

[Fatrav]

Hap happy New Year to you and yours. Fatrav

[shinygoldcar]

woohoo! What a party!

I second Pink Dalek. Thanks Clariman and Stooz!

Good night

[Fatrav]

My brain hurts! Is this the day with the most headaches in the year?