Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[RedmanWasHere]

France shares a land border with the Netherlands, and its longest land border is with Brasil.

Suriname and Belize?

 

[kickazz]

GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) was first introduced as a means to coordinate train arrival and departure times in England.

Before then, towns would just keep their own time based more or less on the sun. As rail travel became more prolific there needed to be a coordinated standard.

 

[Scotland]

The US has 9 time zones in total. What's weird is that they don't neatly align with state boundaries.

Roughly half of South Dakota is Mountain time, the other half is Central. All of Washington is Pacific which creeps over into Montana, but then part of Oregon is Mountain.

 

[Scotland]

Suriname and Belize?

Saint Martin/Sint Maarten

 

[troybe]

The US has 9 time zones in total. What's weird is that they don't neatly align with state boundaries.

Roughly half of South Dakota is Mountain time, the other half is Central. All of Washington is Pacific which creeps over into Montana, but then part of Oregon is Mountain.

Arizona doesn’t observe daylight savings but the Navajo nation within it does

 

[cats_09]

The US has 9 time zones in total. What's weird is that they don't neatly align with state boundaries.

Roughly half of South Dakota is Mountain time, the other half is Central. All of Washington is Pacific which creeps over into Montana, but then part of Oregon is Mountain.

Catching Greyhound buses across the US pre-smart phones was a pain cause of that, and you really did rely on the bus driver to provide time zone updates

Traveling is much easier now days and not needing to think too hard about timezone changes, or the time in different parts of the world etc

 

[ioppolo]

Could be talking out of my arse here but I think I've read that Russia turned their clocks forward for daylight savings one year....and decided to leave it that way.

 

[Gough]

I've got the screaming shits with daylight savings at the moment, you get up around seven and it's still dark.

 

[Pistol Night]

I've got the screaming shits with daylight savings at the moment, you get up around seven and it's still dark.

The last month is a battle

 

[GreyCrow]

Could be talking out of my arse here but I think I've read that Russia turned their clocks forward for daylight savings one year....and decided to leave it that way.

They turned their clocks forward 1 year?

Thats bold

 

[Pistol Night]

They turned their clocks forward 1 year?

Thats bold

Was it in 1999 because they we're scared of the millennium bug? "Lets just make it 2001 to be safe"

 

[Shell]

The last month is a battle

I love it

 

[Mofra]

The maiden flight of the Spitfire, and the maiden flight of the Concorde, were only 32 years apart.

 

[the_interloper]

I've got the screaming shits with daylight savings at the moment, you get up around seven and it's still dark.

Yeah i find the middle of the winter very tough gym wise, I leave at 7 and it's still dark, real grim stuff.

 

[The Dice Man]

Lucky there’s street lights.

 

[Shell]

I walk at school in complete darkness then all of a sudden it becomes light. I love it.

 

[Shell]

The maiden flight of the Spitfire, and the maiden flight of the Concorde, were only 32 years apart.

I shall pass on this pointless bit of trivia to a boy who is obsessed with all things planes

 

[emuboy]

They turned their clocks forward 1 year?

Thats bold

Russia ended up 'losing' some days in 1918 because up until this time it was still using the outdated Julian calendar and had not converted to the Gregorian calendar like most of the world. This meant that Russian dates were out of alignment with the Gregorian countries, and to remedy the situation a number of February days in Russia were 'removed'.

 

[kickazz]

Russia ended up 'losing' some days in 1918 because up until this time it was still using the outdated Julian calendar and had not converted to the Gregorian calendar like most of the world. This meant that Russian dates were out of alignment with the Gregorian countries, and to remedy the situation a number of February days in Russia were 'removed'.

Yep, just as much of Europe skipped several days in September 1752

 

[Mofra]

Russia ended up 'losing' some days in 1918 because up until this time it was still using the outdated Julian calendar and had not converted to the Gregorian calendar like most of the world. This meant that Russian dates were out of alignment with the Gregorian countries, and to remedy the situation a number of February days in Russia were 'removed'.

Was that the year they turned up to the Olympics at the with time because they used a different calendar to the host country?

 

[emuboy]

Was that the year they turned up to the Olympics at the with time because they used a different calendar to the host country?

I haven't heard that one, but apparently the use of the Gregorian calendar vs. the Julian calendar does cause the difference in dates of Easter observed between the Western Christian churches and the Eastern Orthodox churches. While the Eastern Orthodox churches obviously use the Gregorian calendar for their day-to-day operations, they still mark Easter according to the dates of the Julian calendar, which causes it to fall out of alignment with Western Christian churches which observe the Gregorian calendar for Lent and Easter.

By chance in 2025 the Western and Eastern dates for Easter actually align, but this is rare. It last happened in 2017 and won't happen again until the mid 2030s.

 

[the_interloper]

Olympics star Carl Lewis was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys as a wide receiver in the 12th round of the 1984 NFL draft.

 

[Frank Bunn]

The maiden flight of the Spitfire, and the maiden flight of the Concorde, were only 32 years apart.

The maiden flight by the Wright brothers would have fitted inside a C-17 Globemaster.

Needs confirmation. I heard it on the commentary at the Avalon Aisrhow.

 

[GreyCrow]

The maiden flight by the Wright brothers would have fitted inside a C-17 Globemaster.

Needs confirmation. I heard it on the commentary at the Avalon Aisrhow.

The C-17 measures 174 feet long (53 meters)

The first flight, by Orville at 10:35 am, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed of only 6.8 miles per hour (10.9 km/h) over the ground, was recorded in a famous photograph.[38] The next two flights covered approximately 175 and 200 feet (53m and 61 m), by Wilbur and Orville respectively

 

[Gough]

It's Alec Stewart's birthday today, the scorer of 8463 Test runs was born on 8/4/63.