Birds Nest Changes

[Juergen]

Hi Stephen Your Railroad time is correct. I would like to add that there is also an airline time, The only conversion you need to do to get real time is to compute the fact that an airline minute consists of 240 seconds. So, "we'll be delayed 10 more minutes" means actually 40 more minutes. (Then comes the next ten more minutes, but thats another story) Juergen (been there, done it, witnessed it). Juergen in PA 1991 WLSP 36 --- On Wed, 11/26/08, Stephen Birtles wrote: From: Stephen Birtles Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Birds Nest Changes To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 2:27 PM Railway time is a misnomer IF someone asks what time will the customer get serviced the answer is given in minutes.The following question is then asked is that railway time or real time real time is the actual time to perform the service railway time is maybe sometime today or tomorrow Stephen 77fc35 --- In "WanderlodgeForum%40yahoogroups.com", Pete Masterson wrote: > > In my early days working at a railroad, I became aware of "railroad > time." Before the national "Uniform Time Act" that regularized > observance of daylight savings time, the railroads simply stayed on > Standard Time year round. None of that silly military time for the > American railroads ... they used AM and PM -- but to ensure clarity, > trains rarely every arrived or departed exactly at noon or midnight > -- it was the normal course to establish a departure at (say) 12:01 > AM -- funny, how adding the extra minute seems to solve the confusion. > > The standard time all the time, did generate confusion -- after > giving a train schedule, I'd often be asked, "Is that your time or my > time?" -- even when a local daylight savings time was not in effect. > > The Uniform Time Act did solve the problem, since the railroads had > to comply with the law and publish their schedules observing daylight > time. The unintended result was, however, is a bit silly. The > railroads have a rule that no train shall leave its station before > the scheduled time. All over the country, on 'fall back' day, trains > come rolling to a stop and sit for an hour, so that they don't leave > a station before the scheduled time. Of course on 'spring forward' > day, a lot of trains are suddenly "late." > > Pete Masterson > '95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42 > aeonix1@... > On the road at Lockhart, TX > > > > On Nov 25, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Frank Damp wrote: > > > Military time saves a lot of misunderstandings. Midnight is 00:00, > > noon > > is 12:00. > > >