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Time Difference

Douglas Adams explained it all as far back as 1979.

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

The key word, which is why I've put it in bold, is "orbiting", not "digital".

With all the brouhaha regarding "globalization" etc, you would think that some people would finally start getting the hint regarding time difference. Even the Catholic Church acknowledges that unexpectedly setting loose the dogs of the Inquisition on to Galileo Galilei-san was in retrospect less than wise, and something of a public relations cock up. Nobody expects the Inquisition, but you would also think that this kind of basic science would surely be covered somewhere in the tortured depths of our education systems.

Alas.

I still get at least one call a fortnight from yet another dopey drongo who inevitably starts with "I hope I'm not calling at a bad time...." There are no prizes for guessing which particular frigging accent of which particular frigging language about 99.9% of the frigging calls are in. Sheesh.

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If you need some info, browse or google (goggle, whatever) for it or write an email.
If you have to telephone, surprise me and call during normal 9am-5pm office hours in Okazaki.
Yes, the clock on the contact page of my website gives the local time in Okazaki City.

Duh.

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Thank you for reading this. I feel much better now.

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