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Found in Column 8 on Friday:
Geoff Sanders overheard this marvellous exchange between an American woman and a crew member on a Qantas flight from LA to Sydney.
Woman: What time is it?
Attendant: In Sydney or LA?
Woman: In Sydney.
Attendant: 0300.
Woman: When do we land?
Attendant: 0900 Wednesday.
Woman: But we left LA on Monday night. What happened to Tuesday?
Attendant: We don't have a Tuesday. We miss it altogether because we cross the International Date Line.
Woman: What? You don't have Tuesdays in Australia?
Only to be followed up today with:
There's no end to the subject of American visitors' fundamental incomprehension of time zones and date lines (Column 8, Friday). The examples get sillier and sillier. Izzy Perko, of Sydney, was reminded "of the time when I was running a photographic store on the northern beaches. I decided to give a very nice American customer one of our Australian landscape calendars. 'Oh it's so beautiful, but I can't possibly take it,' she said." Intrigued, Izzy asked her why. "'The dates are all mixed up,' she said. 'When it's Monday the fifth here, it's Tuesday the fifth back home in the states, it would only confuse me!' Nothing I said would convince her to take the calendar."
Geoff Sanders overheard this marvellous exchange between an American woman and a crew member on a Qantas flight from LA to Sydney.
Woman: What time is it?
Attendant: In Sydney or LA?
Woman: In Sydney.
Attendant: 0300.
Woman: When do we land?
Attendant: 0900 Wednesday.
Woman: But we left LA on Monday night. What happened to Tuesday?
Attendant: We don't have a Tuesday. We miss it altogether because we cross the International Date Line.
Woman: What? You don't have Tuesdays in Australia?
Only to be followed up today with:
There's no end to the subject of American visitors' fundamental incomprehension of time zones and date lines (Column 8, Friday). The examples get sillier and sillier. Izzy Perko, of Sydney, was reminded "of the time when I was running a photographic store on the northern beaches. I decided to give a very nice American customer one of our Australian landscape calendars. 'Oh it's so beautiful, but I can't possibly take it,' she said." Intrigued, Izzy asked her why. "'The dates are all mixed up,' she said. 'When it's Monday the fifth here, it's Tuesday the fifth back home in the states, it would only confuse me!' Nothing I said would convince her to take the calendar."
