24 Nov
2023
24 Nov
'23
2:58 a.m.
Damien Wildie:
It is Friday in Australia now
====
Yes, I know that. I was at Caltech, it was one of the
first things they taught us.
I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving
Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US.
Does any other country?
On the other hand, if Thanksgiving Day actually mattered to
anyone important, the original ctime(3) would have had a
special table to compute its date, including all the different
a
dates it had in the US before 1942.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON, thankfully
24 Nov
24 Nov
3:18 a.m.
New subject: Thanksgiving (was: Test, test)
On Thursday, 23 November 2023 at 21:58:15 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
Damien Wildie:
It is Friday in Australia now
====
Yes, I know that. I was at Caltech, it was one of the
first things they taught us.
I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving
Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US.
Well, it doesn't make any sense here, since summer starts next week.
But when has that worried people out to make a quick buck?
Does any other country?
According to Wikipedia, Norfolk Island comes close.
On the other hand, if Thanksgiving Day actually
mattered to anyone
important, the original ctime(3) would have had a special table to
compute its date, including all the different a dates it had in the
US before 1942.
Well, I think that ncal(1) would be a better choice nowadays. Sounds
like a good project for times of boredom.
Greg
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4:13 a.m.
New subject: Test, test
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Norman Wilson wrote:
I just don't understand why, if Australia had a
Thanksgiving Day, they
would choose to have it on the same day as the US. Does any other
country?
I suppose the closest we have to Thanksgiving would be Invasion Day...
-- Dave
8:16 a.m.
New subject: Test, test
On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving
Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US.
Does any other country?
In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest",
on the first Sunday in October.
Hellwig
2:06 p.m.
New subject: Test, test
On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson
wrote:
Happy belated Erntedankfest :).
I just don't understand why, if Australia
had a Thanksgiving
Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US.
Does any other country?
In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest",
on the first Sunday in October.
Hellwig 
7:41 p.m.
New subject: Test, test
Will Senn wrote in
<4d39f7fd-aa85-429b-9276-2c115b5d3d08(a)gmail.com>om>:
|On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
|> On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
|>> I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving
|>> Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US.
|>> Does any other country?
|>>
|> In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest",
|> on the first Sunday in October.
|>
|> Hellwig
|Happy belated Erntedankfest :).
|On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
|
||On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
|
|||I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving
|||Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US.
|||Does any other country?
|
||In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest",
||on the first Sunday in October.
|
||Hellwig
|
|Happy belated Erntedankfest :).
Not much no more except in the church, which is not much more
either. But of course for some. Ie many put their heart and free
time into social work there.
Regarding Halloween -- i live only about a kilometre, but not much
more (by air) away from Burg Frankenstein (actually a ruin), and
when i was young with all those many, many Americans in the Rhein-
Main-Gebiet (south of Frankfurt/Main .. air base, plus Ramstein
Airbase, plus Spangdahlem, .. and more, all not far away, plus
at least three bases inside Darmstadt where i live itself) they
celebrated that. Maybe hundred or more busses parking (at
Pfungstadt railway station due to space constraints i'd say).
Unfortunately, now that the Americans are mostly gone, they
started to "eventize" that. Some money making for "hungry"
students and such, i once passed by an "instruction" of paid ones
via bike (they were "biting" already).
I personally: NO. 'Don't like that, even though it is mayb fun
for the kids. But unfortunately we all forget our own history,
and that is funny female witches enthusiastically riding their
broom in the night to May 1st, which i find a much more sympathic
and life fostering event.
Of course -- for all you reading this enthusiastic female witches
riding brooms is such a thing of the past that it almost is
forgotten. [I hope political correctness does not read too much
in that "female", i mean something along those many choices all
the long way to the "male" counterpart.] But nonetheless, the
vision alone i find much more sympathic.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
7:55 p.m.
New subject: Test, test
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20231124194137.XQKAUc9i(a)steffen%sdaoden.eu>eu>:
|Will Senn wrote in
| <4d39f7fd-aa85-429b-9276-2c115b5d3d08(a)gmail.com>om>:
||On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
||> On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
...
||> In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest",
||> on the first Sunday in October.
...
|for the kids. But unfortunately we all forget our own history,
|and that is funny female witches enthusiastically riding their
|broom in the night to May 1st, which i find a much more sympathic
|and life fostering event.
Walpurgisnacht that is.
And shall you search Google out of interest: i see pictures of
people who reuse their Halloween costume. That is not how it was
when i was young. (Though a normal witch can look quite scary by
itself; ie from famous omnipresent pictures i think Helena Bonham
Carter played such a one, she was capable to get it from somewhere
inside out.) We also have a quite famous teenage girl witch, Bibi
Blocksberg i think ... witches can be good, too! That
"Blocksberg" seems to come from the German mountain where, and
everybody (used to) know(s) that, they make huge fires and
celebrate all the night to May 1st: the "Brocken" in the Harz
mountains. Ie block+mountain, and brocken=chunk.
(Just in case someone would actually search.)
(Other than that it seems to me, from bicycle rides, that the
American tradition of eating those poor ugly birds has not truly
ended up as a German one. We had some farmers with those birds
running on green soil, in the Odenwald where i drive, but no more
now. I have not seen them in the last couple of years, at least.
Special thanksgiving meals i cannot recall belong to us here?)
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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Dave Horsfall -
Greg 'groggy' Lehey -
Hellwig Geisse -
norman＠oclsc.org -
Steffen Nurpmeso -
Will Senn