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Re: Get Ready for the Wrinkle - revisit am/pm on time chart
Dave 360texas.com 2007-Dec-20 14:02:00
Hi Don
I just visited the The time chart and looked for Houston Texas...
says its Friday 12:08pm or 8 minutes passed noon. You may want to
revisit your time chart below look for am/pm settings.
Dave still at 360Texas.com
--- In #removed#, "G. Donald Bain" <dbain@...> wrote:
>
> Probably most of you have heard of the Wrinkle in Time, a series
of
> events organized by Robert Abbett (rabbett). They were a landmark
in
> the history of VR, the first world-wide collaborative web effort
> featuring panoramas.
> http://www.hotspotshawaii.com/wrinkle.html
>
> We are almost at the tenth anniversary of the original Wrinkle in
> Time - December 21st, 1997. The WWP Team would like to honor the
> memory of those events, and once more enjoy the spirit of a
> simultaneous shoot, by sponsoring a special event - The Wrinkle
Tribute.
>
> That first Wrinkle was put together in just a few days, pretty
much
> on rabbett's whim. It was almost coincidence that it happened on
the
> Winter Solstice. Subsequent Wrinkles, and the World Wide
Panorama,
> also followed the solar calendar, with events each solstice and
> equinox (plus special Wrinkles for the Millennium New Years).
>
> The original Wrinkle was strictly simultaneous, we all had to be
in
> the process of shooting at the magic moment of 9 am Hawaii
Standard
> Time (rabbett's home location). This was fine for most of the US,
but
> after dark in Europe and a real hardship in some other time zones.
So
> we are going to be more lenient in our definition.
>
> You must shoot for the Wrinkle Tribute event any time within the
24
> hour period centered on the solstice. That is, from 1808 UT, 21
> December 2007 to 1808 UT, 22 December 2007. Look up your location
> here to see what that is in local time: Start time (http://
> tinyurl.com/3cbb44), End time (http://tinyurl.com/2zoabc)
>
> For those of you who like to be challenged, we will give special
> recognition to anyone who shoots exactly on the solstice: http://
> tinyurl.com/2rp3um
>
> In other words, plan to be out shooting at (or within twelve hours
of):
>
> 8:08 pm Friday in Hawaii
> 10:08 pm Friday in California
> 12:08 am in Mexico City and the American Midwest
> 1:08 am Saturday on the East Coast of the US
> 4:08 am Saturday in Rio
> 6:08 am Saturday in the UK and Ireland
> 7:08 am Saturday in most of western Europe
> 8:08 am Saturday in Eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean
> 9:08 am Saturday in Russia and the Persian Gulf
> 11:38 am Saturday in India
> 2:08 pm Saturday in most of China and in Taiwan
> 3:08 pm Saturday in western Australia, Korea, and Japan
> 5:08 pm Saturday in most eastern parts of Australia
> 7:08 pm Saturday in New Zealand
>
> We will open this event on the Prep Server soon after the
shooting
> period concludes.
>
> Happy Wrinkling!
>
> The WWP Team:
> Don Bain
> Landis Bennett
> Markus Altendorff
> Thomas Rauscher
>