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[Torp]

How do you measure a year?

[Ruro]

I often hesitate to use months, they are sort of awkward, like the Imperial System (the one that uses Foot and Inches I believe), where I prefer the Metric.

I mean months can contain either 28/29/30/31 days :/ So, Month is a variety of lengths of time. And let's say it's the 12th of May, and then you need to state how long 15th of June is away? Can you say a Month and 3 days? HELL No, not really... :/

But I guess that's the way the system works! I think the new generation are brought up on this more sensible system, unlike the older generations who know the Imperial. Someone talked to me about this recently infact, the older generations say giving up Imperial for Metric is, "A bad idea and too much hassle", but apparently they all said that about the old English currency system.... and afterwards they are like, "Damn, we're wrong! The new system RoXxOrS Joo!".

Therefore, I hate the system of Month's. Hours and Minutes and stuff ain't so bad, infact I'm content to continue using them. Say, anyone know that old phrase that helps you remember how many days are in each month? :/

I would say a year was a 1/100th of a Century, or a tenth of a decade

[m1469]

How do you measure a year?

By the amount of musical experience and knowledge I have gained 


Or otherwise, by what has been "accomplished"

[Torp]

Seasons of Love – From the Musical “Rent”
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights
In cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.

In five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life?

How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love

Seasons of love
Seasons of love

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes!
Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan.

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?

In truths that she learned, Or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned, Or the way that she died.

It's time now to sing out, Tho' the story never ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of friends
Remember the love!
Remember the love!
Seasons of love!

Oh you got to got to remember the love! Remember the love,
You Measure in love
Know that love is a gift from up above
Seasons of love
Share love, give love spread love
Measure, measure your life in love.

I've fallen in love with this musical.  Sorry to annoy everyone with it here.

Jef

[henrah]

So, Month is a variety of lengths of time. And let's say it's the 12th of May, and then you need to state how long 15th of June is away? Can you say a Month and 3 days? HELL No, not really... :/

But if you do say a month and 3 days away from the 12th of May, only a truly pedantic person would try and calculate it correctly. The majority will instantly say 15th of June.

Say, anyone know that old phrase that helps you remember how many days are in each month? :/

If you count through the months along your knuckles, including the inbetweens, the knuckles have 31 days and the inbetweens have 30. For a point of reference, you go from July on the last knuckle of one hand to August on the first knuckle of the other hand. And obviously the first 30 (inbetween knuckles) is really 28, as it's common sense that February only has 28 days.
Henrah

[BoliverAllmon]

actually not so common. I recently found out that my friend (who is 19) had no clue that February had 28 days.  It is really funny at times to realize what he doesn't know. It isn't that he has a mental problem or anything, just that his Grandma does everything for him and severely babies him.

boliver

[pianistimo]

that's a very nice poem, torp.  see, even accountants can be romantic.  (ps i know you're not a normal accountant - riding motorcycles and everything). 

certainly if one measures a year by an atomic clock - something would be wrong with them.  even to have one of those newfangled watches that synchronize with the atomic clock would bother me.  if my husband had one of those, i'd wrench it off his arm and throw it in a river. 

to me, the romance of life is not knowing what time it is, where you are, and only vaguely aware of what you are doing.  like for me - seeing a baby smile, or being out in the garden when you first see something blooming, your husband's face when he realizes he has matching socks in the drawer, freshly cleaned house (ie spring cleaned), reading a book, eating chocolate - you know - the stuff you don't go around looking at your watch wondering 'how long is this going to take?'   oh, and i forgot, PIANO! and sex (dare i say it).   that's how i measure a year.
 
it's funny, but every spring when i attempt to spring clean (which is getting harder each year) - i look at all the cards from the previous year.  that kind of helps me get a feel for the year.  if it was a good year - i hopefully wrote as many letters and cards as i got - because they do cheer people up.  and, unexpected phone calls.  my husband is better with the phone calling and still keeps in touch with people in our old neighborhood back in calif. for no reason other than just keeping up with what they are doing and how things are.

[Torp]

that's a very nice poem, torp.  see, even accountants can be romantic.  (ps i know you're not a normal accountant - riding motorcycles and everything).

I didn't write it.  It is the lyrics from a song from the broadway musical "Rent."

I also was unaware there was a moratorium against accountants being romantic.

[rimv2]

How do you measure a year?

How does one really measure time?

Most measure by the amount of lunar cycles between repeated events.

For example:

I used to measure a year by how many sunsets it took for my balls to freeze off, thaw out and freeze off again.

Then I moved to Florida.

Now I measure a year by how many sunsets it takes for my ash to be blown away, burnt up, flooded,  smashed by falling cars while hearing a "Strongest military in the world" speech slightly chilled rinsed and repeated

[pianolearner]

How do you measure a year?

9,460,528,410,545,436.2688 metres

[Tash]

i live in my uni year- 8 weeks of hols from jan to march, then 14 weeks uni + 1 week of mid-session break, the 3 weeks of exam period/school prac teaching, then 3 weeks of hols, then 14 weeks of uni + 1 week mid-session break, then 8 weeks of hols!

[ilikepie]

821812.5kcal

[e60m5]

<3 Rent

[Torp]

<3 Rent

Ditto

[nicco]

One second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 (9.192631770 x 109) cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom.

It is the time required for an electromagnetic field to propagate 299,792,458 meters (2.99792458 x 108 m) through a vacuum.

One second is equal to 1/86,400 of a mean solar day. This definition is, however, subject to limited accuracy because of irregularities in the earth's orbit around the sun.

So many ways to describe time...it sure goes fast anyway

[jehangircama]

if i were travelling at the speed of light, i could say that a year is an infinite period of time as i would not travel through the time dimension at all. so i would not age at all

btw, this is a true fact. the photons emitted during the big bang are supposedly the same age today as they were at that instant.