International Date Line

Luba · 09-17-2005, 01:11 PM

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/int...onal_date.html

Vautrin's post about the time difference got me to thinking, and since I'm just having fun on here today, decided I might as well relearn something, too! Maybe someone else wants to refresh their memory...

Vautrin · 09-17-2005, 01:34 PM

Before I started using forums, I did not gave much thought to time differences either - to be more precise only when I started communicating with the girl who would become my girlfriend I started to realize that it affects our lifes.
And I can tell you that I have spent quite a few nights staying up late as a result. She was in the US, but luckily on the East Coast, so it was only 6 hours of time difference with which we had to deal. Mostly I had to deal.

Now that she is in South Africa, which is even further away from me, time difference is only existent in the winter, and it is just a single hour. And nothing more.
Of course that is still far from ideal. But a lot easier to manage for the both of us.

Luba · 09-17-2005, 01:40 PM

Vautrin, you probably have had supper by now...or do you call it dinner? My husband will be coming for lunch soon...he gets an hour where at work we get a half hour. I like the half hour lunch because we also leave a half hour early, still get our eight hours...

darkangelism · 09-17-2005, 01:47 PM

he works on a saturday?

Vautrin · 09-17-2005, 02:00 PM

I call it dinner, my girlfriend calls it supper. I don't know, but somehow I associate supper with eating in small portions. I am a big eater - although I am a bit underweight. Yep, I have had dinner for today.

Half-hour lunches are in general better. Unless you use lunch-time to run errands of course.