Time in Japan
April 4th, 2006 by some dudeCourtney forwarded this “cool factoid” yesterday:
Did you know?
On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.That won’t ever happen again.
You may now return to work.
To which I replied-all, “Unless you’re in Europe and it happens again on May 4th.” I was happy in my smart assedness.
Until I saw that Courtney’s British roommate had already replied with the same tidbit and the conversation had been over 30 minutes ago. Let that be a lesson to me: read all email before replying to a group email.
To make up for my email foe paw, I contribute this random and barely related factoid:
In Japan they show the time in the corner of the T.V. screen, and they like to use military time (that was not the factoid). 1 PM is 13:00, 2 PM is 14:00, and so on, but at noon they call it 0:00. With a “beep, beep, Beeeeep,” I might add. Followed by 笑っていいとも (waratte iitomo, a TV show). For late night shows, they just keep on going; midnight is 24:00 (cuz they already used 0:00), then 24:30, 25:00… Wait, there are how many hours in a day now? Those crazy japs.
