![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Just had a rather interesting chat about changes in the practice and how it will (could) affect me. More later, when I've time. Time - ha! - what a concept!
Time until July 14, 2005, at Midnight(UTC time)
41 days
996 hours
59806 minutes
3588415 seconds
Alternative version
It is 41 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes and 55 seconds until July 14, 2005, at Midnight(UTC time)
Current reference time is
Thursday, June 2, 2005, at 11:13:05 UTC
time n DC ~ n (1950, 1963); cp DAE 10: on a time 'spree' (1855 quot), NID 12 c 'carousal.' A party or celebration, esp a communal gathering with dancing, entertainment, etc; cp SCOFF n.
1878 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 2 But ... while on a visit to Bett's Cove [he] got on a time and 'let the cat out of the bag.' 1933 GREENLEAF xxii To raise money for the schoolhouse and the church, the Sally's Cove people held a 'toime' on Orangemen's Day, which took the form of an all-day fair and was held in the schoolhouse. [1956] 1981 Evening Telegram 28 Aug, p. 6 The people of Lance Cove are going to hold a 'time' for a Lance Cove man [who] will be going away to camp shortly. T 200-65 An' the most years now there'd be a time in the hall that night. An' now then all the boys go to the hall, take the wren with us an' tie it on the Christmas tree. An' then you'd dance till the sunrise. T 222-66 In the smaller places during the fall and winter months almost every night there is some kind of a 'time' on, as any social function is called. It might be a dance or a concert, a church supper an' so on; whatever it is, it's called a time. And everybody goes to these times. 1967 Bk of Nfld iv, 236 The women too had their meetings, the highlights for us being their two semi-annual 'Times' in the Lodge. Here would be the big cooked scoff of salt-water birds or pork and cabbage with a grand assortment of vegetables... Crowds of children would congregate around the 'fish-pond' and try their luck. 1969 Christmas Mumming in Nfld 133 Essentially, a 'time' is an occasion of sanctioned deviation—thus, mummers mean a 'time,' and drinking (frowned upon except at sanctioned occasions, such as weddings and Christmas) means a 'time.' If a wedding, for example, did not have much 'brew,' people will say, 'We didn't really have a time, did we?' 1976 Decks Awash v (5), p. 9 People on the island would occasionally visit friends to have games of cards or checkers. And there were the usual 'times.'
(From http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/d7ction.html
Time until July 14, 2005, at Midnight(UTC time)
41 days
996 hours
59806 minutes
3588415 seconds
Alternative version
It is 41 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes and 55 seconds until July 14, 2005, at Midnight(UTC time)
Current reference time is
Thursday, June 2, 2005, at 11:13:05 UTC
time n DC ~ n (1950, 1963); cp DAE 10: on a time 'spree' (1855 quot), NID 12 c 'carousal.' A party or celebration, esp a communal gathering with dancing, entertainment, etc; cp SCOFF n.
1878 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 2 But ... while on a visit to Bett's Cove [he] got on a time and 'let the cat out of the bag.' 1933 GREENLEAF xxii To raise money for the schoolhouse and the church, the Sally's Cove people held a 'toime' on Orangemen's Day, which took the form of an all-day fair and was held in the schoolhouse. [1956] 1981 Evening Telegram 28 Aug, p. 6 The people of Lance Cove are going to hold a 'time' for a Lance Cove man [who] will be going away to camp shortly. T 200-65 An' the most years now there'd be a time in the hall that night. An' now then all the boys go to the hall, take the wren with us an' tie it on the Christmas tree. An' then you'd dance till the sunrise. T 222-66 In the smaller places during the fall and winter months almost every night there is some kind of a 'time' on, as any social function is called. It might be a dance or a concert, a church supper an' so on; whatever it is, it's called a time. And everybody goes to these times. 1967 Bk of Nfld iv, 236 The women too had their meetings, the highlights for us being their two semi-annual 'Times' in the Lodge. Here would be the big cooked scoff of salt-water birds or pork and cabbage with a grand assortment of vegetables... Crowds of children would congregate around the 'fish-pond' and try their luck. 1969 Christmas Mumming in Nfld 133 Essentially, a 'time' is an occasion of sanctioned deviation—thus, mummers mean a 'time,' and drinking (frowned upon except at sanctioned occasions, such as weddings and Christmas) means a 'time.' If a wedding, for example, did not have much 'brew,' people will say, 'We didn't really have a time, did we?' 1976 Decks Awash v (5), p. 9 People on the island would occasionally visit friends to have games of cards or checkers. And there were the usual 'times.'
(From http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/d7ction.html