It's about time
When I set up this blog, lo these many years ago, I set the timestamp thingy for GMT, which is no longer officially called Greenwich Mean Time but in fact Coordinated Universal Time or some such. UTC. I did it on purpose, and I'm sure I had a reason for this. Very likely a sentimental one, but I can't recall what it was. Or maybe I thought that messing with the time zones would disguise my location or something. Make me appear mysterious. Or I thought if the real time were posted it would draw attention to my, um, insomnia issues.
Several people have pointed this out over the years, thinking that maybe I'd just left it on a default setting somewhere, but I've been reluctant to change it. I can't really tell you why; I have been reluctant, or lazy, or maybe I thought I would need it to calculate my longitude from the Greenwich Meridian. Dunno. My reasons for it are lost to the mists of time. So to speak.
But I changed it just now, partly because someone asked me how I'd managed to post something the other day while I was in a meeting. Did I have a Blackberry? Was I posting from a cellphone? I tried to explain, but it was lame. And I've already been outed as a "local blogger" in the free weekly paper, so it's kind of silly to pretend I'm overseas. And my insomnia issues are less acute these days.
Plus, it would look really bad to miss the very first day of NaBloPoMo. And it's already tomorrow, UTC-wise.
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4 comments:
Yay! You made it in!
Being dyslexic, I am constantly confused about time zones and Daylight Savings vs. Standard time. I can never remember if I am GMT-5 or GMT+5. I have to visualize both a map and a flight (by airplane) to figure it out, every time.
That's just hilarious, but I can see where it would work.
The arbitrary nature of time drives me just nuts; it's not merely that it's confusing, which it is, but it's such a bizarre little artifact of our very human need to impose order. But what does it mean, really? Tune in on Sunday for my twice-yearly rant about daylight savings time.
I didn't promise to do "NaBloPoMo" because I know myself and I know better! I wish I didn't... but alas, why make a promise you can't keep?
I admire all of the people who participate and stick to it!
Well, I'm not sure I can deliver, but I wanted to try it; I did pretty well trying to post every day in October -- 26 posts in one month is kind of a personal best. But I'd been neglectful of the blog, and wanted some kind of incentive. I don't even know what kind of fabulous prizes NaBloPoMo offers, but I'm not in it for the prizes :)
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