Merry CHRISTMAS and your New Years resolutions…

[Imperious Leader]

I’m sure its sept 1st 1945, because i flew to Hawaii as a VIP to commerate the 60th anniversary of the end of WW2. I even chatted with Admiral Roughead, commander of the pacific fleet and Linda Lingle who is the Governor of Hawaii. At our time it was Sept 2nd, but in Tokyo bay it was Sept 1st. They even had 3 jets fly over, played taps and played MacArthur’s original broadcast ending with “these proceedings are over.” Perhaps their was some Japanese army still fighing on one of the bypassed islands. A lot of stories of soldiers still fighting the war many years latter.

[Guest]

OK, I did a quick search, here is the answer regarding 12-31-46

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1231.html#article

Truman Declares Hostilities Ended, Terminating Many Wartime Laws; Republican Chiefs Commend Action
51 Statutes to Die Government’s Power to Seize Plants and 1 1/2 Billion Taxes to Go 18 of Laws End at Once States of Emergency and War Continue-Sudden Action a Surprise to Washington
By BERTRAM D. HULEN
Special to The New York Times

Washington, Dec. 31–President Truman in a surprise proclamation terminated formally the period of hostilities in World War II as of noon today.

The action was announced by the President personally at a suddenly called news conference this forenoon at which he said:

“The time has come when such a declaration can properly be made, and it is in the public interest to make it.”

At the same time he emphasized that the states of emergency that were proclaimed by the late President Roosevelt in 1939 and 1941 and the state of war itself, which presumably will run until peace treatise have been terminated. They would require action by Congress, he pointed out.

The state of hostilities, a term covering the period of actual fighting and one used in defining the duration of many war-time statues, alone was involved in the President’s proclamation, but this served to terminate immediately eighteen emergency laws and scheduled for expiration six months from now or later provisions of thirty-three other statutes.

[Staff Sgt. Barnes]

actually the end of WWII was when the Berlin wall came down and germany was reunited. that was the last thing left over from WWII. but some people say that since Israel went to the Jews as a result of WWII, the war isn’t really over. but for me the war ended when the Japanese gave up and my grandpas came home

merry Christmas
new years resolution
    i was thinking of joining the minute men, i think thats what i will do. that and i always donate my time at the local animal shelter.

[Janus1]

you were in hawaii, on sept 2nd, and you claim that it was sept 1st in Tokyo?  :-o

[Imperious Leader]

you were in hawaii, on sept 2nd, and you claim that it was sept 1st in Tokyo?

Tokyo time is (before) Hawaii time. example if its 5pm in Tokyo it may be 12am in Hawaii (next day) i am not sure how many hours difference it is only that i was sitting not more than 30 feet from the rear main turret on Sept 2nd 2005.

[Guest]

Actually, that is Back Assward :-P

The new day begins at the International Date Line (approx 180 degrees East or West Longitude) and the new day proceeds around the world to the west.  If you are in Hawaii it is tomorrow in Tokyo.

That is why the first New Years celebrations are in the Pacific islands, then we see Australia’s celebrations, then moving west into Europe, and finally to the US.

[Imperious Leader]

the west coast of USA is 3 hours before the east coast, so why is japan and Hawaii any different?

[Guest]

You are thinking backward, and forgetting that between Hawaii and Tokyo is the International Date Line.

Here, go to this link, and compare Honolulu to Tokyo (as I look at this, it is 1:00 this afternoon (Friday) in Honolulu, and 8:00 a.m SATURDAY morning in Tokyo)

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

[Imperious Leader]

Well that seems correct, but i wonder at which point on the globe from an area more west than tokyo makes the tokyo time count after?
for example Kuwait city is 6 hours before tokyo time so it can be friday in Kuwait, while in tokyo its Saturday. Where is the break even point if you get my drift?

[Guest]

@Imperious:

Well that seems correct, but i wonder at which pointon the globe from an area more west than tokyo makes the tokyo time count after?

Vladivostok, Sydney, Suva (capital of Fiji), New Zealand, etc.

If I am reading your post correctly.

[Imperious Leader]

ok got it thanks! WOW

[Jermofoot]

Just remember:

“Land of the Rising Sun.”

Then it all makes sense…

[Imperious Leader]

Ok Ok…Its just hard to see that in hawaii its 3 hours BEFORE pacific time, but in japan its basically TOMORROW.