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It’s Time, Time, Time…..

  • by MRambler
  • Mar 12th, 2011
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  • Educational, History, Travel
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  • 11 comments

    • We all get to “Time Travel” one hour into the future, well, it’s not really time travel, but, we do “Spring Forward” and lose an hour until next Fall (huh?)…..  What a pain, resetting all your clocks, including that uncooperative internal body clock – that’s the one that gives me the most trouble…..

    A little history on DST:  The idea was first floated back in 1784 by one Benjamin Franklin. While minister of France he wrote the essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.” The idea failed to see the light of day until practically 100 years later, when the U.S. railroads instituted a standardized time for their train schedules. That time change was imposed nationally during the first World War to conserve energy, but was repealed after the war ended. It became the national time again during World War II.

    Although it is supposed to conserve energy due to one hour of more daylight when most people are awake, studies have shown that the savings are nominal at best…..  In our current state, I guess even a penny of energy saved is better than nothing……

    MRambler posted this entry on Saturday, March 12th, 2011 at 3:47 pm. Posted in the category Educational, History, Travel You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    11 Responses to “It’s Time, Time, Time…..”

    1. #1 by robolsd
      March 14th, 2011 at 12:08 pm

      I guess no one has the time to make a comment. That lost hour must really be hitting home.

    2. #2 by MRambler
      March 14th, 2011 at 4:01 pm

      There’s no Time like the present Time to take the Time to make it Post Time…… You may have to take the Time to read that a second Time…… If you can find the Time – Got Time?…..

    3. #3 by robolsd
      March 14th, 2011 at 7:11 pm

      It’s time for time. Time to stop and pick up a dime in time. If only we had a time tunnel then we would have time for tea time. Hey what’s the time. Time to go. I seem to be out of time. What a waste of time. Until next time.

    4. #4 by MRambler
      March 14th, 2011 at 8:16 pm

      No, it’s, “Time is on my Side” (Stones)…… It’s a good thing that I don’t stutter, or, or I might not have the ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-i-i-im-im-im-me-me-me-me to know what time it is…… Timely……eh?…..

    5. #5 by robolsd
      March 14th, 2011 at 8:50 pm

      I think it’s Time to do the Time Warp again (Rocky Horror). Or maybe it’s Time to send you Back to the Future. I find my self Sliding through time (Sliders). Tempest Fugit. I am having a grand old Time. It seems that MR and I have Lots of Time on our hands. Plot Complication: There is a Temporal Anomaly off the port bow, Captain. There’s no Time like the present. It’s Time to order Pizza – Hope it gets here in Time. A stitch in Time. 4/4 Time. Apple time rag (Ragtime Jazz). Pizza is almost late, they’ll have to give it to me for free next Time. Captain? that Temporal Anomaly is getting closer! No, it’s Dom-e-do’s pizza delivery. Once again, I find it’s Time to go now. Until next Time.

    6. #6 by MRambler
      March 14th, 2011 at 10:23 pm

      I deleted your first attempt in order to save Time….. I also revised, corrected, and added to your #5 Timed response….. Much better, I think…..

      Also, I think you set an all Time record for the most grammar errors found in such a short comment…… Spend a little more Time with the spell checker, if you can find the Time…. TIME OUT…….

    7. #7 by robolsd
      March 14th, 2011 at 10:29 pm

      Thanks you corrected that in the nick of time.

    8. #8 by Jek
      March 14th, 2011 at 11:07 pm

      Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
      You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
      Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
      Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

      Tired of lying in the sunshine
      Staying home to watch the rain
      And you are young and life is long
      And there is time to kill today
      And then one day you find
      Ten years have got behind you
      No one told you when to run
      You missed the starting gun

      And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
      Racing around to come up behind you again
      The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
      Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

      Every year is getting shorter
      Never seem to find the time
      Plans that either come to nought
      Or half a page of scribbled lines
      Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
      The time is gone
      The song is over
      Thought I’d something more to say

      Home, home again
      I like to be here when I can
      When I come home cold and tired
      It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
      Far away across the field
      The tolling of the iron bell
      Calls the faithful to their knees
      To hear the softly spoken magic spells

      -Pink

    9. #9 by anon
      March 15th, 2011 at 1:46 pm

      Time…….”duration over space”……….a definition I read in a book. I’m still confused.

    10. #10 by MRambler
      March 15th, 2011 at 3:32 pm

      Good to hear some quoted “Floyd”, Jek….. It didn’t take too much “Time” to read it……

      Anon, don’t forget to carry your dimension and multiply by the sum of the Universe…… Time that!…….

    11. #11 by J.J.
      March 18th, 2011 at 10:37 pm

      Jek: I couldn’t have said it better myself.
      Everyone else: 42= Space time continuum.

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