Lis, if, G-d forbid, I ever end up in public hearings for some position like Supreme Court justice, and it gets difficult to hear people savage me, please fake checking your watch or something, and leave BEFORE you lose your composure. You don't have to listen to it, but don't ever let 'em see ya sweat. Aw hell, I'd either be daydreaming and tune out the blowhards or purposely absent myself since I probably wouldn't be able to keep a poker face.
If it's important I'm there to demonstrate support, I'd probably bring along my notepad to take notes (or daydream) to avoid giving away signals...
Realized the problem with yer local-time proposal after you dropped me off. Make plans with anyone outside your city and you'll run into synchronization errors.
I couldn't find a table of relative local noons, but according to American Heritage: "Local noon at the latitude of New York City comes one minute later for about every 13.5 miles you move westward." Wayland is 14 miles west of Melrose. My workplace is about 26 miles west of your parents.
Right now, we can be fairly confident coordinating schedules with anybody in our time zone. If I call my relatives in Florida, it's the same time there as here.
This throws everything wide open. And the calculations necessary for figuring out when anything happens gets much more complex once you need longitudes for everything. Even something as geographically limited as an SF con, attendees will need to coordinate their schedule with the airlines.
So why would anybody bother using local time at all, given its so inconvenient?
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Aw hell, I'd either be daydreaming and tune out the blowhards or purposely absent myself since I probably wouldn't be able to keep a poker face.
If it's important I'm there to demonstrate support, I'd probably bring along my notepad to take notes (or daydream) to avoid giving away signals...
Realized the problem with yer local-time proposal after you dropped me off. Make plans with anyone outside your city and you'll run into synchronization errors.
I couldn't find a table of relative local noons, but according to American Heritage: "Local noon at the latitude of New York City comes one minute later for about every 13.5 miles you move westward."
Wayland is 14 miles west of Melrose. My workplace is about 26 miles west of your parents.
Right now, we can be fairly confident coordinating schedules with anybody in our time zone. If I call my relatives in Florida, it's the same time there as here.
This throws everything wide open. And the calculations necessary for figuring out when anything happens gets much more complex once you need longitudes for everything. Even something as geographically limited as an SF con, attendees will need to coordinate their schedule with the airlines.
So why would anybody bother using local time at all, given its so inconvenient?