Mar 11 2023 - Summer Time coming before Spring Time is here

 

Daily Savings Time is here this weekend.  It seems the change of time is to make summer more enjoyable/productive/save energy/ and sorts of "tangible" benefits.  All these benefits seems to have driven it to start earlier. Long summer evenings aren't arriving for another few months.  It used to be in April, but the US Department of Energy had the idea that there were would energy conservation so moved it to March for more savings.  That seems likely to be a theoretical wish rather than a real gain.   When did it originally start? On July 1, 1908, the residents of Port Arthur, Ontario, today's Thunder Bay, turned their clocks forward by 1 hour to start the world's first DST period. Other locations in Canada soon followed suit. On April 23, 1914, Regina in Saskatchewan implemented DST. The cities of Winnipeg and Brandon in Manitoba did so on April 24, 1916. It is up to the legislation in each municipality in Canada to decide on the use of DST. As a result, there are some locations don't follow the DST schedule of their in provinces and territories. For example, while British Columbia uses DST, some locations in the province do not. Since 2007, all provinces, territories, and locations in Canada using DST follow the same start and end dates as the United States. And that's how we got to changing the clocks so much earlier.  I wondered if there was any news on Scott Adams and Dilbert. There's no news.  He is on the Locals website.  It is Coffee with Scott Adams Community...open-minded people who like to learn about persuasion, politics and the operating code for reality while having some laughs. It is here.  You get to see a preview as it is a member only site. We are ignoring all the snow today and concentrating on trains instead. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Mar 7 2020 - How Many Songs?

How many songs are published?   Answering how many books in the world is easy - pops up right away - around 130,000,000 books, although that's an estimate. Books have always been at the centre of our intellectual universe. Songs, it turns out,  are in many libraries - streaming service libraries. For example, Gracenote is a company that stores and organizes songs.  It says it has 2,451 genres, 438 style descriptors, 480 languages.  It has a database of approximately 100 million tracks.  But it isn't the biggest - there is Discogs and their database is 151,200,000 tracks.  There are 40,000 tracks per day added to Spotify. Here are the streaming music service library sizes are: Apple - 45 million tracks Spotify - 35 million tracks Amazon Prime Music - 16 million tracks Google Play - 40 million tracks Pandora - 30 million tracks Tidal - 50 million tracks We could go to the Choral Public Domain Library, founded in 1998.  It is focused on choral and vocal music in the public domain.  There are 34,152 scores by more than 3,419 composers. Sometimes Quora has the answer.  It has interesting answers that show creative perspectives, but it has silly posts too.  I guess these guys are having fun and making money.  So who should complain?  Here are some of their posts: Worldwide, the average life expectancy at birth is 70.5 which means you will have 25,732.5 (70.5 × 365 ) days to enjoy your songs, which means you will have 617,580 (25,732.5 × 24) hours to enjoy all your songs, which means you will have 37,054,800 (617,580 × 60) minutes to enjoy your songs. assuming a song to be average of 4 minutes totally, you will have the exact time to hear 92,63,700 songs in your lifetime. so friend i cannot say exactly how many songs are there in this world but what seems more relevant question is to how many songs can you hear in your lifetime. I can't say the exact digits. But Lets think like this. There is roughly 7,000,000,000 people in Earth. (just googled). So lets think 5% are musicians (assumption). Then the answer is 350,000,000. Now lets assume they have release an avg of 250 songs. Then it would be 87,500,000,000 songs. Could be more and I only considered the recent time period. According to what I was able to research, as of 1/5/2011 there have been 623,162,727 songs written with a new song being written every two minutes. So plus that number every 2 minutes that passes by... We move to Daylight Savings at 3:00am on March 8th, so we're celebrating spring with some tulips today.

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WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW ... Daylight Savings Time

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW...this is a regular headline in the internet.  Today's topic is what you need to know about the time change to daylight saving time this Sunday.  There was nothing that I needed to know in the article on Daylight Saving Time from Globalnews.ca.  But it got me to look at it.  What if there is something important this year and this weekend? When I think of a clock - I see one of those regulation school clocks. Isn't this such a familiar sight all through my generation's childhood and well into adulthood.  We would see these clocks in schools, hospitals, industries.  What does the ITC stand for on this clock?     It stands for independent transmit clock.  Looking at pictures of classrooms, there is the electric clock high on the wall in most of them.  I assume they are electromagnetic. It is interesting how little moI know about the time-keeping of clocks and yet they are so ingrained in everything we do today. Remember the school bell in the classrooms?  It signalled the end of class.  It must have also signalled the beginning, but it is the end that seems more appealing to the memory.  The move to Daylight Savings Time is a welcome one - it signals the end of winter approaches and the beginning of spring is here. Today's image was taken at Vineland Research - one of its buildings has a wall of boston ivy that turns a beautiful red in the fall.  The windows seem to be eyes reflecting the sky.

Time's Up

It is now Daylight Savings Time.  It brings to mind  our expressions and idioms that describe time. The Wikipedia Time Philosophy Section brings us this introduction: Two distinct viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. An opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of actually existing dimension that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead an intellectual concept (together with space and number) that enables humans to sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that space and time "do not exist in and of themselves, but ... are the product of the way we represent things", because we can know objects only as they appear to us. Here are a few of the expressions/idioms from The Free Dictionary's Time entry: (a) quarter of (a given hour in time) (someone) puts (his/her) trousers on one leg at a time (just like ever a (ticking) time bomb a devil of a time A good time was had by all a hard time a legend in( one's) own time a matter of time a question of time a race against time A stitch in time a week is a long time in politics a whale of a (good) time about time against the clock against time ahead of one's time ahead of time all in good time all the time all the time in the world any time appear at some time arrange for some time arrive on the stroke of some time at a set time at a time at no time at one time at one time or another at present at some time sharp at that point at the appointed time at the present time