Fair dinkum... joining an online meeting is fun and games let me tell you! I'm not reknown for my promptness and being on time here at all!!... Add to that crossing and co-ordinating several timelines in an attempt to sinc up with 4 different US times spanning 3 hours... and just plain ignoring the debate still ranging with the interstate daylight saving issues on this side of the earth... I have no idea which one of our states is still on EST...and after circumnavigating the earth several times, my head is just boggling!
Have ended up with a gist on Zulu time... but don't figure that's going to help much.
Pu-leeease... Can someone who is currently existing in Eastern Standard Time (US), pu-leeease tell me what time and day it is??? I CAN add, so should be able to work it out alongside the message post time lapse...
I think my brain may be fried. The last few brain cells have been bumping into each other for hours... I need some help with this, me thinks.
Just to confuse the issue, it's now 16:52 UK time! I gave up trying to work out what time it everywhere else when I realised that sleep patterns can be erratic for months after stopping drinking!
Hope everyone is having / had / or will have a good and sober Saturday.
Bye for now.
Chris.
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Well, Nic, where are you? Australia? It seems to me, Australian time is near Japanese time, which is,, umm.. let me see,,, I think somewhere like 12 hours + 2 from eastern time. I am on eastern time, but I don't know whether it is saving or daylight... I just know it is 1:43 pm here. It would be helpful if the messages were time stamped,,, including the private ones cuz they don't even say how long ago they were posted. but you may be asking to try and get to an online meeting. I think when our meeting is at 9 pm for us, it is like 11 am for you. But I may be all wrong on that, in which case disregard this message.
love in recovery,
amanda
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OoooKay. Thanks everyone. I was always in trouble for ringing friends OS in the middle of the night... now I just email and wait. I think I have it sorted though... Phil posted an edit at 11.20pm Saturday which is recorded as 9 hrs ago... It is now Sunday midnight here, which would mean he was posting at 3pm my time - to connect with the 9pm meeting (US ET -assuming that's what Phil's on..) on a Saturday night, I need to get my act together by about 12.30 noonish...
I don't kn ow what time Phil is on,,, but the time stamp is not done on Phil's time, but on the time of the computer program. your message said 3 and 48 minutes ago it was midnight where you are it is now 1:08 eastern time pm. the 48 + 8 = about 1 hour,,, so your message was actually more like 4 hours ago... which means that midnight there was 9 o'clock here? There are simple time conversion sites you know.. that show you what time it is all over the world... but this is fun.
Now, you are assuming that if you get to one of the AA meetings here there will be people present,,, but last I visited there were no people at the meetings... the people on the board do not attend the actual meetings. Which could be something we work on, eh? If the people want to tell me that I am wrong, and that people do attend the meetings, I will be happy that what I've said is a mistake.
So, how aabout the lady in Ireland who is 5 hours ahead?
amanda
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Ah Ok! Now that is pretty funny! So, even if I work out the time, there is no-one there... and the meetings don't really take place anyway? oooookay.
I tried the simple time conversion sites the other day, but gave up when they started dividing both Aus and Us time into further quarters. Am afraid it did not seem all that simple... but I am blonde, and proudly so! .
Not to worry. There is an Aus online meeting somewhere... will just try finding that again.
...Waiting on the punchline for the Irish Time thing...
but don't figure that's going to help much.
oooookay.
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