marnixvb 🌍🌎🌏Apr 10
Meanwhile in Canada
Time zones are so confusing.
In Paris it's 12:00 pm
In Toronto it's 6:00 am
In Washington it's 1930's Germany.
Apr 10 at 10:13amWeb
Show threadjackApr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada or 1920s Washington
Show threadNoBorgApr 10

@MeanwhileinCanada

And because of all those time differences, we get to catch up later with news.
I just watched this heated hearing at the House. Wow, watch it if you haven't yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5VTBgKjcY

WATCH: ‘This is amateur hour.’ Rep. Horsford blasts U.S. trade rep after Trump tariff pause

YouTube
Show threadfranebleuApr 10

@hadon @MeanwhileinCanada
🔥 Public immolation 🔥

"Double u tee eff !" 😆

Show threadfranebleuApr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada
Nope, just modern USA presidentialism at its most(?) clownesque peak.
Show threadJohn Kostiuk Apr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada 👍
Show threadFlowermobApr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada At the next time change can we make it 1789 Paris?
Show threadDitolApr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada
am and pm is confusing. Saying as a German.
Show threadMariano Amenábar 🇺🇦Apr 10

@ditol @MeanwhileinCanada Here in Argentina is even more confusing, people use the 12-hours system and the 24-hour system indistinctively. I get messed constantly, last year I had to go to a play "a las NUEVE" (at 9 pm) but I understood it was "a las DIECINUEVE" (at 19 hours, 7 pm), so I arrived two hours earlier 🤦🏻‍♂️

Another issue here is people tend to say the hour in relation to the next one when it passes the half. For example 2:45 is often called "tres menos cuarto" (a quarter to three) 😑

Show threadDitolApr 10

@marianoamenebar
All that you're describing applies to Germany too. In my region they even say "three-quarter three" to 2:45.
It's just: you don't write am/pm, you use proper 24-h format for writing. It's different thing when people speak. And it's understandable: you want to know who your people are and who are foreign in any conceivable way. It's like dialects. People like speaking "not in a standard way". ;)

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Show threadfloApr 10
@ditol
am = "am Morgen" :)

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Show threadDitolApr 10

@fasnix
Ja, der ist gut. :)

@MeanwhileinCanada

Show threadDitolApr 10

@fasnix
pm erinnert aber an post mortem. ;)

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Show threadfloApr 10
@ditol
pm = pre-midnight (glaube ich)

Aber braucht es für pm überhaupt eine Eselsbrücke, wenn am mit "am Morgen" übersetzt werden kann? ;)
Show threadzetabetaApr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada
i think timezone is utc-832750.
Show threadRobin BartonApr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada love it
Show threadAsylgulApr 10
@MeanwhileinCanada its because the earth is round ... wouldn't it be so much more convenient if it were flat 😁
Show threadNoBorgApr 11

@MeanwhileinCanada

Good job Canada, keep on inspiring us ;)

Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domestic sales amid the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement
https://theconversation.com/canadian-retailers-are-seeing-a-surge-in-domestic-sales-amid-the-buy-canadian-movement-253502

Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domestic sales amid the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement

Though still in its early stages, the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement is already delivering promising results across the retail sector.

The Conversation
Show threadMartinMay 25
@MeanwhileinCanada Actually 1933. The evil is already in charge and trying convince public, that they are under attack. Just waiting for a fake incident as reason for starting an invasion.