Sunday, October 30, 2005

Fall Backwards

Well today's the day most of America falls backwards and gets that extra hour of sleep. Even though Thailand probably has more farmers per capita, I don't believe many of them have ever even heard of daylight savings, let alone Benjamin Franklin. I tried to explain about the guy on the $100 bill, but it was to no avail.

Here in Chiang Mai, we're almost half way around the world from Los Angeles. Fifteen hours ahead now. So 9:00am there is midnight here & 9:00am here is 6:00pm there. That magic moment that the sun is shining on both of these places at the same time. Of course it's tomorrow's sun for us. So there...

2 Comments:

At 10/31/2005 4:11 AM, Jodi said...

Yeah, I needed that extra hour of sleep too! It means I got almost 4 and a half hours instead of 3 and a half hours before going to do a 3.5 mile walk this morning.

 
At 10/31/2005 4:12 AM, Jodi said...

Or tomorrow night where you are?

 

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