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Cdaniels
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Dunwich, Massachusetts
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 Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject: Time Zone Settings |
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| This may have been discussed before, but with New Years' and the magic midnight countdown fast approaching, I wondered does anyone even try to make sense of the "time stamps" on posts on Dave's? Are they a useful feature? |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 9650
Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| It's hard enough to find two clocks in Mexico that give the same time, or any time within a margin of less than 15 minutes error... |
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Ms. Atondo
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
Posts: 72
Location: Back in Canada for now...snackin' on a Pizza Pop
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, according to the time stamp this message started at 4:10 pm even though it is only 10 am where I am and I am only 2 hrs behind D.F.! Guess that answers that question! |
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Perpetual Traveller
Joined: 29 Aug 2005
Posts: 651
Location: In the Kak, Japan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Just not sure that I've ever seen myself as a 'sophicated' [sic] sort of person...   Now sophisticated on the other hand, definitely!
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Ben Round de Bloc
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject: Time |
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| Cdaniels wrote: |
| Do you set your account time zone preferences for local time? |
Now that is funny!
I live in Mexico; therefore, I never know what the local time is. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, here's one for CDaniels, soon to be joining us in Mexico. There are very few references to 'time' in Mexico, but some important ones to note. Each is an appropriate response to the question 'What time is it?'
I don't know
Lunch time
Puente!
You still have half an hour left, stud.
Yes
A gesture of pointing at one's naked wrist, shrug of the shoulders.
Sorry, we're closed |
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Cdaniels
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 663
Location: Dunwich, Massachusetts
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject: ...well, do you wash windows too? |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| You still have half an hour left, stud. |
I suppose obsessive clock-watching is one of the reasons I'm leaving the US. <shrug> I just had my car repaired yesterday (broken solenoid?) I will be glad to sell it, I hope I can a decent price for it. Watching gasoline prices fluctuate is another obsession I'll be glad to leave behind. I guess I should have known better than to post this to the Mexico forum.  Perhaps the Japan forum? |
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Ben Round de Bloc
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: ...well, do you wash windows too? |
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| Cdaniels wrote: |
| Watching gasoline prices fluctuate is another obsession I'll be glad to leave behind. |
Speaking of which, has anyone done the math lately to figure out what the current cost of gasoline (in US dollars per gallon) in Mexico would be? |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I hear it varies across the country, but here in DF, it's still just under 7 pesos per litre as it has been for years now. up in the border regions, I hear they dropped prices to keep Mexicans from filling up on the other side, though that's probably changed since Katrina and the Iraq war. |
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