on 11/6/01 11:12 AM, Candice Ward at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Ah, thank you, Jill--and please forgive what must have seemed like
> Northern-Hemispheric insularity on my part, but was just the usual ignorance
> and confusion so endemic to Yanks.
Not at all. I wouldn't expect anyone to keep up with public holidays in
upside-down world. We're so busy trying to hang on here that it does get a
bit opaque (nurse, quick, the screens). And, that's correct, every day is a
queen's birthday here. No republic is a drag!
> Let me rush things, then, by proposing 800.40 hours instead of
> 20(hundred).40, as proposed by Robin, to put ourselves out of the misery all
> the sooner. Whaddyarekkon? By my reckoning this would be in US Eastern
> Standard Time (which is all I know for sure) eight-forty tomorrow morning,
> so creeping up on mid-afternoon for the Brits, Scots, Welsh, and Micks--but
> perhaps getting too close to cocoa time for you and your countrypeople?
> (Please advise.)
My quick and dirty reckoning makes that 12.40am here eastern standard.
Earlier in Perth but the Kiwis will probably have to be speeding rather than
doing cocoa. But Australia - please correct me if I'm wrong.
JJ
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