Looking back I joked at Bob, the evil empire hit man, and wondered at the remarkable coordination that occasionally, but not very often, these operations are timed out.
Lebron James 9,440 sq. foot home broken into at 6:44 am, Pacific time. But the story was reported Eastern time as most are. So, 9:44 am.
Now Trump's visit to Asia has time zones causing some confusion. Should the gematria hit squad set their watches by Asian times, US times or what? Depending on the time of the day in the US, it's not even the same day of the week in Asia.
How fortunate that just like there's no rule for which elision is the proper one to use and you can pick either/or from a dazzling array of choices that in gematria the exact time is either/or. All you need to do is preface this with an authoritative comment like, "Interesting that this happened on November 5th in US time. 11+5+17=33......"
While researching my fourth favorite city, Wollongong I discovered something I never knew before. There are some rather odd choices for what the official choice of time is in some geographic areas.
Coordinated Universal Time, UCT (yes, not CUT, it's a French thing) sets the standard for time at 0 degrees longitude. There are 40 recognized time zones around the globe. Most are coordinated to an exact hour difference. I knew that there are some rebels that decided it would be fun to change it to a half hour. But didya know there are time zones that use 15 minutes?
Eucla and some other towns in Australia are one such rebel outfit. Although not officially recognized, they've stuck with it and they clearly delineate where the time zone stops and starts. There's a lovely kangaroo statue, Rooey, near a BP gas station and roadhouse that uses UTC + 8:45, eight ours and 45 minutes as the official time. As I type this and check my phone time of 5:18 am, its 7:03 pm in Eucla.
Whatever the reason, if you check the internet for the official time it will show that Eucla recognizes the current time with this odd little 15 minute block difference. I would think their significant others getting ready for a hot date at the roadhouse would have problems being ready on time and UTC + 8:30 would be fine. What's another 15 minutes + or -? I would like my nearly infinitely powerful super beings mocking us with numbers buried in our language to be more conscious of what time is the right time.
Do all operations in numerology ignore the rebel tike zone? Do they accept it, and change their watches accordingly? Or like the Lebron house break in - just accept the world is a big place and it's a different time somewhere? What exactly is the right time?
Nepal is UTC +5:45. What about Mount Everest? If someone gets the idea that it's official height of a bit over 29k feet means something relative to its first ascent on May 29th 1953 is that really the right date? It absolutely, positively was not May 29th everywhere in the world at the same time. Even the height is questionable. Somewhere in history it was fractionally bigger before some erosion. Just like continents drift gematria only seems to care about today.
That's a great reason to not have children. Imagine a dystopian future society where the gematria doesn't work anymore since the current generation of users didn't plan for it.
Oh, the horror!
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