Time waits for no man... or woman.

 

 

I normally post my articles here at about 8:00am in the morning. The time stamp at the end of my post shows 00.00 (midnight) Pacific Time - Los Angeles.

 

This means that whilst it is well into another day over here and I've already had my breakfast, my readers in Los Angeles are probably still in bed and about to start another day. I am sorry to wake you up every time I post an article.

 

I also realise that for those of you living on the East Coast it will be 3:00am and you too are probably in bed. (Have I got this right?) I can only guess what time it is for the rest of you living in the USA.

 

But I am told that those of you in Australia have already had the day which I am about to start after breakfast writing my Blog post. In your case, you have already read my post before I write it. How can this be possible? How is it that you read my posts before I write them because you are always a day ahead?

 

My scientist friend tells me that if I fly from London to America I don't need to shave because as I am flying, America is also coming towards me because the earth turns from left to right.

So the journey is much shorter flying towards America. Apparently, when we had a plane called Concorde which flew faster than the speed of sound, people arrived in America before they left London Airport. 
   

However, when you fly from America to London the journey is much longer because London is moving away from you as you try to catch up with it. By the time you get to London you'll trip over your beard judging by how long it grew. So you're advised to shave on the plane. 

 

Life gets even more complicated when we change the clocks backwards and forwards every Autumn and Spring, with some countries taking part and others not; and those who take part change their times at different dates than other countries.

 

Apparently there is no real reason or need to change the clocks backwards and forwards. It is only done to annoy people and to get them to talk about something on their Blogs.

 

And another thing, when it comes to celebrations like Mothers' Day, and Fathers' Day, different countries celebrate at different dates. And some people have introduced celebrations that others have not; like Hamburger Day - whenever that is.

 

Whilst we all agree when Christmas is; we do not seem to agree about Easter and some Churches celebrate it at different times.

 

And although we all agree as to when to celebrate the New Year, the Australians once again celebrate it before any of us and have already written Blogs about it before I've had my breakfast.

 

I find this all confusing, even more so since some of you, I have noticed, do not show the date when comments are made on your posts. All you show is the time. So I don't know whether the comments I have just read from your readers has been made before or after I have written my comment. Do I comment on what someone else has said or not? Because strictly speaking, he may not yet have commented and my comment on his comment would be redundant.

 

Biblically, it is said that to God one day is like a thousand years. He does not have time zones.

 

Which must have been very confusing to poor Moses when summoned up the mountain to get the Ten Commandments. Did he go the following day, or in a thousand years time? 

 

And was it just Ten Commandments or did he lose some on his way down?

 

What do you think?