When I was about seven, I got a little confused about time zones. I was under the impression, from my particularly strange imagination, that it was to do with how often you had to put the clocks forward or backward an hour.
I live in Birmingham, in the UK, just west of the Grenwich meridian. I thought that people living on the Grenwich meridian didn't have to put their clocks forward or backward an hour at all, people living where I did had to alter their clocks twice a year, and people living on the other side of the world had to change theirs several hours forward or backward every day.
I still don't know how this worked.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think that on day light savings time you had to stay up till 2:00am to change the clocks! — Sandy
- I though the "D" written in "Walt Disney" on some videos was actually a backward "G".
— A. Nonymous - i used to think before clocks were invented, there was no such thing as time— nathan t
- when i was young, when some 1 said time flies, i wondered why there wernt clocks flying aroun— Necrid
- When I was younger, I believed that times tables in maths were kids sitting at tables staring at clocks!Anon
- I used to believe that the exhaust fumes coming from a car were actually what pushed it forward like a rocket — rocket car