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Samuel Special user Norway 831 Posts 
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How can one hour be longer than another hour, and one year be shorter than another year?
(those years with one extra day doesn't count in this "riddle") -Samuel
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27123 Posts
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Time is
people's measures are
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Sapient Regular user 126 Posts
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If yeap years don't count, can we still use leap seconds?
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mike paris Regular user 179 Posts
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Quote: the clocks go forward and back each year by one hour. When the clocks go back one hour ,one hour becomes 2 hours,and that's how 1 hour becomes longer than another hour.(the time is 2 am the clock goes back to 1 am) (when the clock goes forward ,at 2 am it becomes 3 am) Maybe someone else can get the year solution
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mike paris Regular user 179 Posts
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Quote: This is a guess.when it was the year 1 BC ,after was 1 AD,there must have been a year in between the 2 dates (but what would it be called, maybe year Zero????) so I say this must be the year that is shorter.
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SteveFowkes New user Oxon, UK 35 Posts
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Mike, there was never a year 1 BC until after the year count started, hence the trade in selling fake coins marked BC to gullible tourists. In any case, the period zero to 1BC is exactly the same as zero to 1 AD. That's if you believe in that sort of thing.
Personally, I'm an atheist - thank God!! Sorry, couldn't resist. As for hours, the lunch hour always goes faster than a working hour. And the years are definately shorter once you hit 30 years, they just seem to fly by. Just my observation. Regards, Steve
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mike paris Regular user 179 Posts
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Thanks steve for putting me straight ,i feel bit of a fool now,at least I learnt something new.
Ok if you say there was no BC the year before AD,then AD was a fixed year so the year before must be shorter (or longer) as there was no year in place.does this make sense, or have I screwed up again? |
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Stephen Buxton Veteran user 311 Posts
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Years are defined by the length of time for the planet to rotate about the Sun. Mercury has the shortest year, Pluto (and that planet that was recently discovered) have far longer years.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27123 Posts
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Stephen, some calendars got modified a few times in some cultures. There are recorded years with more or less days on the calendar.
Hours... as obseved on clocks sometimes get adjusted by atomic clocks, and when that adjustment occures, I guess you could say that the minute was longer or shorter. We are using some pretty funky things to define our system measurement these days. Cesium atom decay intervals, wavelengths of light... it gets better 
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mike paris Regular user 179 Posts
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Steven, what about a lunar year 360 days being shorter than an earth year 365.
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Greg Arce Inner circle 6422 Posts
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You guys are making me very late for everything!!!
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honus Veteran user 354 Posts
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Well, obviously "one year" is shorter than "another year" . . . by four letters!
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Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts
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In the 1700's, I believe around 1736, they adjusted the calendar and removed 13 days or something like that. So, for example, the date jumped from April 2 to April 15th as part of the adjustment.
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kaytracy Inner circle Central California 1793 Posts
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Can we use the hours and years form other celestial bodies, like the ones on Mars being a bit different from the Earths'?
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On 2005-09-15 16:13, honus wrote: The same thing crossed my mind, but like you I re-read the question and it said "one year" was LONGER than "another year", so that theory went out the window. This strikes me as one of those puzzles that has a roundabout solution, but once you know it it seems very simple. All this talk about other planets, whilst technically correct, is probably on the wrong track. When do we get our answer?
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Could we be talking, "number of digits"? I don't think this is the cleanest answer, but could it be said that eleven o'clock is longer than, say four o'clock because '12' is longer than '4'? Same for years: '1994AD' is longer than '932AD'?
No, as I said, it doesn't seem "clean" enough. :-S Hmm... back to the drawing board.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27123 Posts
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Depending on the show or curcumstance, one hour can be much longer than another. And a dog year is shorter than a people year.
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