Sorry if that was a little confusing to read, but that’s how I feel when I’m trying to keep up with these different time zones. Okay, so exchange rates and currency isn’t so bad cuz it’s all multiples. But, it will still be a little tricky when I get to Hong Kong because I’ll have to try to do conversions on the spot to see if I’m getting my money’s worth (good thing I’m an algebraic beast!). But then still, I’ll have to try to haggle down the price so I’ll end up ahead and getting things cheaper than my money’s worth.
I digress. You know how they say engineers and multiply, divide, take integrals all that stuff, but can’t add and subtract? That is so true!! (The following is for all my nerds) You know when you take an integral and there are limits on the integral so you have to add that extra “+C” business. Yucky. That always messed me up because that’s where the adding comes in. Okay I still digressed…
[Real quick on that note: Why do people say I digress? That's not grammatically correct. It's I digressed. and who really cares anyway. If you are going to get back to the point, do it instead of telling me that you are going to do it. I feel similarly about the "Outline" slide in a presentation. But I guess it makes one believe that the real meaning should be that 'I'm going to get back to the subject' instead of the actual meaning that 'I have gone off subject'. Unless you are digressing from your digression...wayyy to deep, just now]
Anyway, but the time zone thing. I still don’t understand it. This WikiAnswers was the dumbest explanation I’ve heard. And I thought you weren’t supposed to answer a question with a question. Here’s another explanation that talks about it in terms of sun and whatnot. I get that. But when I have an appointment in China for 5pm on the 16th, why must I look online to convert that to an American Time Zone? I didn’t know if China is really ahead or behind us. So would that mean whatever time am on the same day, or the day before, or the day after? NO CLUE! Why can’t everyone just use the same time (all standardize with whatever the time the sun is at its highest over Greenwich and this crazy ‘International Date Line’. And then everyone will be fine. It will be okay if it is dark at 3pm. Because everyone will still be on the right time. In Michigan just say come in to work at 6pm because no one will really know the difference since it will be light outside.
They talk about it will be easier to keep track of time if you travel between time zones…HOW? It makes a lot more sense to me to say leave Michigan at 5pm and get to California at 9pm that to leave at 5pm and get there at 6pm. I’m just saying.
