Re: Now take a look...

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:36:33 +0200, Els wrote:

> Dylan Parry wrote:
>
>> Using a pointed stick and pebbles, Els scraped:
>>
>>> Makes me wonder: how come the USA haven't managed to turn the tables
>>> and make themselves be first timewise... :-)
>>
>> <'Cos time was invented by the British, of course. Much like gravity and
>> other things that I don't understand how we lived without ;)
>
> <g>
> Time may have been invented by the Brits, time zones weren't needed
> before America was 'discovered' I think. But maybe those Brits who
> first settled in America still thought of Britain as the center of the
> earth when they noticed that the evenings are awfully long in their
> new habitat ;-)

Time wasn't invented :-))

The first European measuring point for time, long before Greenwich, was,
and being English I hate to say it, Paris, France that is not Texas, before
you Americans get any ideas.
.

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