Sunday, April 03, 2005

It's noon..right!?!?! It's already tomorrow in China. How could that be!?
This freaks me out: http://www.worldtimezone.com/
How and why do they carve up the world like that and make it different times in different places? I know it has something to do with the sun, but in some parts of the world, like Austrailia for example, there are time zones right on top of eachother at the same longitude. What's with that? Wouldn't it be equally sunny in those places at the same time? And why is Grenwich, England considered the center of the map and every other time zone is + or - based on its proximity to Grenwich? Colonialism?
I think I learned this all in 7th grade, but forgot and it's tweaking me out.

I do not believe in time as an entity in itself. It is just a measure of change with the sun as a frame of reference. Nothing scary. No, not scary at all. We could just as well measure minutes by how often I use the word "just", but I'd like to think my word use is (hopefully) a little less predictable than the sun.
posted at 12:01 PM |