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The First Annual VIRTUAL Shindig!

POSTED BY: Malicious
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 1, 2004 19:58
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ARIES

Friday, May 28, 2004 9:05 AM

to this i say whoooooohooooo, gotta love the music and why not incorperate the watching of the firefly series too....makes a great party fav. dont ya think..

"your such a boob"

HEB

Friday, May 28, 2004 10:38 AM

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Hey I'll be there so how can it go wrong?

8:00 eastern daylight time ok?

Mal-licious

Is that like 1 in the morning in the UK?

Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood

MALICIOUS

Friday, May 28, 2004 6:58 PM

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Is that like 1 in the morning in the UK?

I haven't the foggiest idea what time it would be. I'm only 70% sure that it would be 5:00 in California, so.....

Mal-licious

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ASTRIANA

Friday, May 28, 2004 7:24 PM

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Originally posted by Malicious:
8:00 eastern daylight time ok?

Is that like 1 in the morning in the UK?

If you're on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), then Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is 4 hours behind you - as opposed to Eastern Standard Time (EST) being 5 hours behind - unless you have Daylight Savings Time where you are. So:

8:00pm EDT = 12:00am GMT

Also, California is on Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) right now, so:

8:00pm EDT = 5:00pm (PDT)

However, if you're in Arizona or Hawaii, you don't have Daylight Savings Time, and you subtract 1 hour less than you normally would, so:

8:00pm EDT = 2:00pm HST (Hawaiian Standard Time), or
8:00pm EDT = 5:00pm MST (Mountain Standard Time)

(I don't really know most of this, but I use these really good resources:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/index.shtml
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ )

~A~
El Jefe Magnifico's Mistress... of Communications and Harems...

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

MALICIOUS

Friday, May 28, 2004 7:36 PM

...and that concludes our lecture on "Time Around the World"

Mal-licious

ASTRIANA

Friday, May 28, 2004 7:38 PM

ah, well...

~A~
El Jefe Magnifico's Mistress... of Communications and Harems...

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

MALICIOUS

Friday, May 28, 2004 7:50 PM

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ah, well...

Thank you, Astriana! I think we all learned a lot, didn't we class? (students all nod)

Mal-licious

DEBBIEBUK1

Friday, May 28, 2004 9:36 PM

What about a 24 hour Firefly marathon (all episodes twice or something?), we could start in Aus with Serenity, Finland up to say Out of Gas, by around UK DVD-watching time be well up to HoG, then start again. Can't do the sums, but I know at work we always schedule meetings with our East coast guys around 2pm UK which is sort of 9am EST I think. Maybe not every month but it would be fun to try a couple of times.

Then do it all again just before the BDM comes out and get lots of extra publicity.

KARENKAY99

Friday, May 28, 2004 9:41 PM

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Originally posted by Malicious:
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ah, well...

Thank you, Astriana! I think we all learned a lot, didn't we class? (students all nod)

Mal-licious

(nodding) is there goin' be a quiz?

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

HEB

Friday, May 28, 2004 10:24 PM

Thanks.

I think we're in daylight savings time at the moment.

I don't mind staying up though if it could be an hour earlier that would be a bit better for us Brit fans. That's if we're welcome to the virtual shindig.

Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood