Posted by Els on 11/12/93 11:24
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 ;-)
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