The sun does not always shine
At some point I was told that the whole point of having time zones was to get rid of confusion. Back when the trains first started to run, noon happened at a different time in each town. And so the scientific world got together and figured out how to make times that made if you will sense. How quickly we forget. I have for the last two hours been trying to watch an eclipse via television. At the same time I am aware of the light changes outside. But what I’ve learned from watching CBC is that they have no hesitation in changing the times they talk about. A mishmash of clips taken days ago mixed with live cameras mixed with forecasts and nothing else that will allow me to synchronize what I was hearing with what I was seeing. As near as I can tell we have moved past the eclipse. It is now safe for me to go back outside etc. While I was out I listened and watched and I notice only that it was dark for awhile. Not dark, dark but you know. They feed different segments to try to give the idea that they are actually covering the subject. For someone like myself, I have to assume the times they mention cannot allow me to anticipate the arrival of the event. And so, I gave up on the TV coverage and went back to what I could base upon my own senses. I could not see the eclipse but could feel the cold and see the light go down.
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