#thetimeisnow

And now's the time, the time is now...to sing my song...

I have been rather silent over the last few months. I have been taking in all of the events taking place throughout the world. At this point, I can no longer be silent. It has commenced. It is here. It is NOW! Now is the time that many of us are here in the first place. If this in any way resonates with you, then you are fully aware of what time it is.

Many of us have been wandering lost upon this beautiful planet asking ourselves and our Spirit guides why we are here and how we are supposed to achieve the purpose for which we came. Through our time traveling down our various paths, many of us have come to the realization that we have been placed on this planet for this exact time. With the threat of a third World War and/or nuclear war imminent, the time has come for us to draw closer to and call upon our Spirit Guides and benevolent ancestors to help us to use our gifts and abilities in ways that are most beneficial at this time. If you find yourself operating in a state of fear or confusion, know that you are loved and you are not alone.

Όχι,δε φταίει η ζωή ούτε η κακιά σου μοίρα που οι περισσότεροι από εμάς έχουμε συνηθίσει να θέλουμε τα πάντα εδώ και τώρα,χωρίς να φτύσουμε αίμα.Διάολε,τίποτα πραγματικά καλό δεν έρχεται με το να καταβάλλεις την ελάχιστη προσπάθεια και κυρίως τίποτα καλό δεν έρχεται γρήγορα.Αυτό δε σημαίνει πώς πρέπει να παραιτηθείς από τη ζωή.Νομίζεις πώς η ζωή απλά θα σου χαρίσει απλόχερα τα πάντα.Η διάθεσή σου δεν είναι δικαιολογία,η έλλειψη χρημάτων δεν είναι δικαιολογία,η ηλικία σου δεν είναι δικαιολογία.Τα πάντα είναι εργαλείο αν απλά κάτσεις και στύψεις το μυαλό σου.Άραγε το έχεις προσπαθήσει ποτέ; Έχεις σκεφτεί ποτέ πως δεν είσαι μονάχα ένα μάτσο κόκκαλα με σάρκα;

Strike while the iron is hot—

if you don’t, you will regret it.

if you’re lucky to be on the spot,

strike while the iron is hot;

don’t worry about what is not,

just what is, and if you can get it;

strike while the iron is hot—

January 29th 1848 saw the first adoption of GMT by Scotland. The subject has been the source of controversy ever since.

The change had broadly taken place south of the Border from September the previous year with those in Edinburgh living 12 and-a-half minutes behind the new standard time as a result.

The discrepancy grew the further west you moved, with the time in Glasgow some 17 minutes behind GMT. In Ayr the time difference was 18-and-a-half minutes with it rising to 19 minutes in the harbour town of Greenock. All these lapses were ironed out over night on January 29th 1848, but the move wasn’t without controversy as some resisted the move away from local time.

Sometimes referred to as natural time, it had long been determined by sundials and observatories and later by charts and tables which outlined the differences between GMT and local time at various locations across the country. But the need for a standard time measurement was broadly agreed upon given the surge in the number of rail services and passengers with different local times causing confusion, missed trains and even accidents as trains battled for clearance on single tracks.

An editorial in The Scotsman on Saturday, January 28th, 1848, said: “It is a mistake to think that in the country generally the change will be felt as a grievance in any degree. “Probably nine-tenths of those who have clocks and watches believe that their local time is the same with Greenwich time, and will be greatly surprise to learn that the two are not identical. “Even if they wished to keep local time, they want the means.

“Observatories are only found in two or three of our Scottish towns. “As for the sundials in use, their number is small, most of them, too, are made by incompetent persons and even when correctly constructed, the task of putting them up and adjusting them to the meridian is generally left to an ignorant mason, who perhaps takes the mid-day hour from the watch in his fob.” Can you imagine a Mason putting up with being called ignorant in this day and age!

The editorial added: “For the sake of convenience, we sacrifice a few minutes and keep this artificial time in preference to sundial time, which some call natural time, and if the same convenience counsels us to sacrifice a few minutes in order to keep one uniform time over the whole country, why should it not be done!”

Mariners had long observed Greenwich Mean Time and kept at least one chronometer set to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was considered to have a longitude of zero degrees. The move to enforce it as the common time measurement was made by the Railway Clearing House in September 1847.

Some rail companies had printed GMT timetables much sooner. The Great Western Railway deployed the standard time in 1840 given that passengers on its service between London to Bristol, then the biggest trading port with the United States, faced a time difference of 22 minutes between its departure and arrival point.

Rory McEvoy, curator of horology at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said travel watches of the day had two sets of hands, one gold and one blue steel, to help measure changes in local time during a journey.

Maps also depicted towns with had adopted GMT and those which had not, he added. "There was information out there for determine the local time difference so they would know the offset to apply to GMT before the telegraphic distribution of time.”

Mr McEvoy said different towns and cities in Scotland would have had their own time differences before adoption of GMT. Old local time measurements show that Edinburgh was four-and-a-half minutes ahead of that in Glasgow, for example.

Mr McEvoy added: “I think it is fair to say there was no real concept of these differences at the time. It was when communication began to expand quite rapidly that it became f an issue. I think generally, you would be quite happy that the time of day was your local time.”