General => Lounge => Topic started by: t3skidoo on April 29, 2009, 04:59:12 PM
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: t3skidoo on April 29, 2009, 04:59:12 PM
Please raise your hand if you get the morning sunlight before the rest of North America.
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: Thunder Chicken on April 29, 2009, 05:16:54 PM
I'm in Nova Scotia, so I'm in the Atlantic time zone (an hour ahead of New York) but I'm afraid that Thundergrowl, who is in Newfoundland, would still beat us by a half hour...
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: Haystack on April 29, 2009, 05:59:48 PM
its still yesterday for me. 24 hour shift and now I'm not able to sleep.
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: the_intimidator03 on April 29, 2009, 06:07:16 PM
HAH yall have to get up early to watch the sunrise on the ocean... we can just watch the sunset over the ocean here without getting up early :-p
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: Thunder Chicken on April 29, 2009, 06:48:16 PM
Quote from: the_intimidator03;269718
HAH yall have to get up early to watch the sunrise on the ocean... we can just watch the sunset over the ocean here without getting up early :-p
Actually, where I live, I can go about 40 miles east in the morning to watch the sunrise over the ocean in the morning, then 5 miles west to watch it set over the ocean in the evening. Well, not quite the ocean for the sunset... the Minas Basin, actually, but it's still salt water and you can't see land on the other side, so it's ocean enough :hick:
BTW, t3skidoo: Where are you at? I was always under the assumption that the only parts of North America on Atlantic time were the Maritime provinces of Canada and Labrador. Unless, of course, you're in the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico...
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: t3skidoo on April 29, 2009, 07:21:03 PM
You're right, I don't know of anywhere in the US that's on Atlantic time. I'm "in the middle", but will be up in your neck of the woods here in a month or so, PEI and NS.
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: oldraven on April 29, 2009, 07:49:39 PM
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;269730
Actually, where I live, I can go about 40 miles east in the morning to watch the sunrise over the ocean in the morning, then 5 miles west to watch it set over the ocean in the evening. Well, not quite the ocean for the sunset... the Minas Basin, actually, but it's still salt water and you can't see land on the other side, so it's ocean enough :hick:
BTW, t3skidoo: Where are you at? I was always under the assumption that the only parts of North America on Atlantic time were the Maritime provinces of Canada and Labrador. Unless, of course, you're in the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico...
At the risk of making a fishing reference here, I'm in the same boat as this guy. In Nova Scotia, so I can head down the Highway I live on to see the sun rise over Country Harbour, or head 1/2 hour the other way to see it set over the Northumberland Straight.
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: Thunder Chicken on April 29, 2009, 08:10:18 PM
Quote from: t3skidoo;269737
You're right, I don't know of anywhere in the US that's on Atlantic time. I'm "in the middle", but will be up in your neck of the woods here in a month or so, PEI and NS.
Oh? What did you do to deserve that? :hick:
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: t3skidoo on April 30, 2009, 02:11:26 AM
Ha, one of the perils of being a anaglyptographic anthropologist, I guess.
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: Thunder Chicken on April 30, 2009, 07:54:09 AM
One of the other perils being having to explain what the hell that is :D
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: t3skidoo on April 30, 2009, 11:09:56 AM
Don't ya'll have wood carvings up there?
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: oldraven on April 30, 2009, 06:07:45 PM
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Ha, one of the perils of being a anaglyptographic anthropologist, I guess.
I know what an Anthropologist is (I'm an Anthropology nut myself) but the rest is some serious Greek, dude.:hick:
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: t3skidoo on April 30, 2009, 07:44:39 PM
anaglyptographic ~ carvings
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: oldraven on April 30, 2009, 10:06:09 PM
Nice. You study folk carvings for a living, or a hobby?
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: t3skidoo on May 04, 2009, 03:08:13 AM
oldraven,
Mostly a curious tourist. It would be nice to meet some FTBCF folks while I'm up there, and see their rides, of course.
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: jcassity on May 04, 2009, 08:45:55 AM
thunderchicken I was always under the impression that a far eastern portion of Maine was on atlantic time like yourself. Its only about a 3 mile section of land and I am not sure if they observe it or not.
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: Thunder Chicken on May 04, 2009, 02:39:16 PM
Any time I've gone into ME was through the Calais crossing, which is on the eastern side of the state (almost on the Atlantic ocean), and when I crossed the border the time changed. There may be some islands on atlantic time, but I think the mainland is eastern...
Title: birds and cats on Atlantic time
Post by: V8Demon on May 04, 2009, 02:57:06 PM