I have to defend these characters having this debate in front of the clocks. Once I was walking through London with my partner. For a joke, at Big Ben I stopped and asked her what the time was, and she got out her phone.
It would never occur to me that a public clock anywhere in the UK would be a reliable source of timekeeping. 99% of tower clocks no longer work. If the local authority can manage it, they will set the time to 12 or remove the hands.
'The man's gone for 150 hours how the hell can it be Thursday the whole time.' 'Ok look, Japan is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time...' 'Don't.' I was always the sort of person who would be trying to answer the question. It took me so many years to learn that people don't always want to know or that their questions were rhetorical and don't care. I did finally learn to ask first - sometimes.
Best show ever written Nothing has come close to this level of talent (both acting and writing) in one room since. Plus Sam was beautiful. Shallow but true.
Anytime I travelled overseas and someone asked when I'd be landing, I just said "beats the hell out of me. it's a 13 hour flight, so 13 hours after I took off."
'The man's gone for 150 hours how the hell can it be Thursday the whole time.' 'Ok look, Japan is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time...' 'Don't.' Love The West Wing!
Ok. this right here was both witty and laugh-out-loud funny! Well done to scriptwriters and the authors who delivered it, and the camera works and editing of the scene. Great stuff!
@UncleMikeNJ That clip no matter how many times I watch it is something that still makes me laugh out loud. Josh has probably the best comedic moments of anyone on the show.
It wouldn't have been Thursday the whole time - the first problem with that is since he crossed the date line at 3 AM, it would have been Friday for three hours before it was Thursday again.
I work for the military on a global scale, and have come to love both the IPA and 24-hour time. WAY easier to deal with. However, I still have no idea what time it is in Tokyo!
Military time would really simplify things, why do the am and pm times need to have the same numbers. People just refuse to get off calling everything by am and pm its no point in fighting it.
I like that the end conversation between Sam and Josh feels like Jed and Leo relationship. Sam wants to explain an interesting factoid but Josh is having none of it. You can imagine Jed and Leo having a similar conversation.
GMT or UTC has been my time system for more than 50 years. Twenty three years in the Aviation Industry is had to forget. But I love that its CJ who brings it to the attention of the " boys" what the Presidents "local time" is. Poor Josh often has trouble with technology.
If a plane leaves from Tokyo, traveling 750 MPH, and Washington DC is 6,800 miles away, how many scandalous stories can break in on CNN before the plane lands?
If you fly westwards from Tokyo to NY, and NY is 13h after, and the flight let's say takes 13h - your plane litterally stand still in space and time, while the earth just moves. I guess :)
Military time is easier that's for sure once you get used to it. I worked with it a number of years ago when the police officers would use military time when writing tickets. Also our local college was using it on their schedule of classes.
My family are embroiled in a good-natured yet heated argument as to what the date was when my grandfather died in France in 1974 (the date is announced in a French paper published in NY). In our attempts to resolve this, this clip has added little value.
Great scene -- and speaking as someone who lives in Japan, military time is *not* more confusing. Japanese people use it all the time to make sure am and pm don't get messed up.
So... (for example) if it's 12 noon in D.C. July 1st, then, at the same time... (carry the 2...) it's 1am July 2nd in Tokyo. Meaning, if your flight from Tokyo to D.C. takes 13 hours, (summer) then you'd land, 13 hours later, but the same Tokyo time, +1 hour you took off, which is now 13 hours later there. BTW... Japan hasn't observed DST since the 50s... another Sorkin mistake.
@TokyoSpike I use to work for an insurance office doing car quotes.... I spent time in Israel and told time as a 24-hour close, I learned Morse Code and as a result learned the International Phonetic Alphabet. People would hear me on the phone reading back peoples' licenses and registrations with phrases like "alpha, bravo, charlie, etc" and see times on quote sheets like 14:15. Everyone asked if I spent time in the military, I'd just tell them I found it easier to use the 24-hour clock.
I used to have a job where I travelled most of the time, and there were some weird things that happened. Stuff like eating an early breakfast at Heathrow, having a non-stop flight to LAX (where I was given a meal mid-flight) and landing in Los Angeles...in time for an early lunch. Or wrapping up a week's worth of work in Cincinnati, grabbing the next flight out (which actually involved going to Kentucky), having a connection in SLC, and getting home the same evening.
@MrGrinningManiac You are right! Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet which is about how words are said, I meant the "Military phonetic alphabet" or sometimes called NATO phonetic alphabet. Look that up on Wikipedia. It is used to avoid confusing words and letters which sound alike over radio in military and other applications.T/Z/E can sound alike...but "zulu" is distinct, as is "echo" or "tango".
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"The man's gone 150 hours, how can it be Thursday the whole time?" - LOL
I have to defend these characters having this debate in front of the clocks. Once I was walking through London with my partner. For a joke, at Big Ben I stopped and asked her what the time was, and she got out her phone.
😂
The only thing that would make your story better would be for Big Ben to sound off on the hour right about the time she told you the time.
It would never occur to me that a public clock anywhere in the UK would be a reliable source of timekeeping. 99% of tower clocks no longer work. If the local authority can manage it, they will set the time to 12 or remove the hands.
Josh - "He's gonna land an hour before he took off?"
CJ - "Yeah..."
Josh - "And that's not a story that beats the Surgeon General's!?"
I’ve done it - flew from Seoul 🇰🇷 to New York 🇺🇸 and the plane ✈️ landed before it took off 😮
C.J. "This isn't happening." Probably her daily mantra lol.
I hope this clip grows in popularity now that everyone is trying to calculate Taylor Swift’s travels from Japan to the Super Bowl.
Saw it on Tik Tok!
'The man's gone for 150 hours how the hell can it be Thursday the whole time.'
'Ok look, Japan is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time...'
'Don't.'
I was always the sort of person who would be trying to answer the question. It took me so many years to learn that people don't always want to know or that their questions were rhetorical and don't care. I did finally learn to ask first - sometimes.
spectrum?
And Sam could’ve saved Josh, Toby and Donna when they got left behind in Indiana.
As Jed said, if Donna hadn't been there, Toby and Josh would have had to buy a house.
@@almostfm FACT
This show had the best dialogue on TV for the first 4 seasons
And what's cool is you don't even have to watch the video because everyone just repeats the entire thing in the comments.
And then Sam left :(
And you know what happened after? Aaron Sorkin left. :( he was the best writer there
@@opiet8081 You're welcome.
@@mooney5564 *Only ;)
Best show ever written Nothing has come close to this level of talent (both acting and writing) in one room since. Plus Sam was beautiful. Shallow but true.
Was just thinking the same. 😊
Anytime I travelled overseas and someone asked when I'd be landing, I just said "beats the hell out of me. it's a 13 hour flight, so 13 hours after I took off."
'The man's gone for 150 hours how the hell can it be Thursday the whole time.'
'Ok look, Japan is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time...'
'Don't.'
Love The West Wing!
I like how Sam is all up in that document while the trio is having their little clock conversation! lol
“And that’s not a story that beats the surgeon general?” So. Good
I love how Toby says "He would have traveled back in time" like air force one is some times machine!
Air Force One has a flux capacitor.
Ok. this right here was both witty and laugh-out-loud funny! Well done to scriptwriters and the authors who delivered it, and the camera works and editing of the scene. Great stuff!
Guys, there are clocks on the wall. lol!
+Slimy Weasles - CJ usually seems to be the force of reason in TWW.
Theo Lamp Unless the Pwesident needs to be bweefed. :)
@GamerKat'71 Without that root canal we would've never gotten Josh's secret plan to fight inflation.
@UncleMikeNJ That clip no matter how many times I watch it is something that still makes me laugh out loud. Josh has probably the best comedic moments of anyone on the show.
This is my favorite aspect of traveling to and from Japan.
It wouldn't have been Thursday the whole time - the first problem with that is since he crossed the date line at 3 AM, it would have been Friday for three hours before it was Thursday again.
"Don't"
Oh, how I loved & do miss this great series! Best ever! 😊♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I work for the military on a global scale, and have come to love both the IPA and 24-hour time. WAY easier to deal with. However, I still have no idea what time it is in Tokyo!
Military time would really simplify things, why do the am and pm times need to have the same numbers. People just refuse to get off calling everything by am and pm its no point in fighting it.
One of the best! "How can it be Thursday the whole time!"
the *GREATEST* show in the _history_ of television.
Doctor Who.
"Guys - there are clocks on the wall." LOL
mtshishimbi CJ's always the level headed one
The eye roll and expression of "I can't believe -I- have to be the one to say this." is what really sells it. xD
11 in the morning IS 11 in the afternoon. I love that subtle addition to Josh being frazzled with the time difference.
hands down one of the best scenes in tv history
I'm pretty sure that adds up to jet lag from hell...
I like that the end conversation between Sam and Josh feels like Jed and Leo relationship. Sam wants to explain an interesting factoid but Josh is having none of it. You can imagine Jed and Leo having a similar conversation.
GMT or UTC has been my time system for more than 50 years. Twenty three years in the Aviation Industry is had to forget. But I love that its CJ who brings it to the attention of the " boys" what the Presidents "local time" is. Poor Josh often has trouble with technology.
This is like sorkin’s version of “who’s on first.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
If a plane leaves from Tokyo, traveling 750 MPH, and Washington DC is 6,800 miles away, how many scandalous stories can break in on CNN before the plane lands?
If you fly westwards from Tokyo to NY, and NY is 13h after, and the flight let's say takes 13h - your plane litterally stand still in space and time, while the earth just moves. I guess :)
Uh... Josh? There is no 11 in the afternoon.
And people whose professions require them to get up early might argue that there's no '11 in the morning' either. ;)
+Mel M 11pm, yes we say 11 in the evening or at night, but he was talking about pm vs. am.
There is. Noon is 12 o'clock, 11 pm is after that.
But there is a nine in the afternoon
@@halliep-s6880 Damn. You beat me to that joke by, like, a year.
What the hell is 11 in the afternoon? 😄
Doc Brown only needed a flux capacitor, and 88 miles an hour. Imagine the effectiveness of a modified 747 traveling in excess of 500 miles an hour :)
And he had to deal with Biff Tannen on top of it.
👍👍👍and 1.21 gigawatts.
I’m a math teacher and I couldn’t keep up 😂
He's gonna land in Washington an hour before he took off, and thats not a story they beats the surgeon general?! LOL
Military time is easier that's for sure once you get used to it. I worked with it a number of years ago when the police officers would use military time when writing tickets. Also our local college was using it on their schedule of classes.
Ginger was fine. She should’ve gotten more acting credits.
My family are embroiled in a good-natured yet heated argument as to what the date was when my grandfather died in France in 1974 (the date is announced in a French paper published in NY). In our attempts to resolve this, this clip has added little value.
Great scene -- and speaking as someone who lives in Japan, military time is *not* more confusing. Japanese people use it all the time to make sure am and pm don't get messed up.
The man's gone 150 hours. How can it be Thursday the whole time?
"See, Josh. The Earth is round..." :)
It's been over 15 years.... I've been watching it at least half a dozen time.... IN SLOW MOTION CC.... Still don't get it!
Hilarious!!!
Haha that's great! That should have been Sam's next line!
Especially the way they were trying to figure it out.
So... (for example) if it's 12 noon in D.C. July 1st, then, at the same time... (carry the 2...) it's 1am July 2nd in Tokyo. Meaning, if your flight from Tokyo to D.C. takes 13 hours, (summer) then you'd land, 13 hours later, but the same Tokyo time, +1 hour you took off, which is now 13 hours later there. BTW... Japan hasn't observed DST since the 50s... another Sorkin mistake.
@TokyoSpike I use to work for an insurance office doing car quotes.... I spent time in Israel and told time as a 24-hour close, I learned Morse Code and as a result learned the International Phonetic Alphabet. People would hear me on the phone reading back peoples' licenses and registrations with phrases like "alpha, bravo, charlie, etc" and see times on quote sheets like 14:15. Everyone asked if I spent time in the military, I'd just tell them I found it easier to use the 24-hour clock.
11 in morning, 11 in the afternoon? was that a goof! Still funny and well done scene. :)
@Tigerman1138 well 24-hour is pretty much eveywhere except in the u.s. just like the metric system
11 in the... After-Noon??
Did that once...got home an hour before I left.
I used to have a job where I travelled most of the time, and there were some weird things that happened. Stuff like eating an early breakfast at Heathrow, having a non-stop flight to LAX (where I was given a meal mid-flight) and landing in Los Angeles...in time for an early lunch. Or wrapping up a week's worth of work in Cincinnati, grabbing the next flight out (which actually involved going to Kentucky), having a connection in SLC, and getting home the same evening.
I just had to check the comments,to see if anyone FROM JAPAN was here....there is,but he wrote his 7 years ago,my not be there now.
How can it be 11 in the afternoon? It's either late morning or late night.
@MrGrinningManiac You are right! Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet which is about how words are said, I meant the "Military phonetic alphabet" or sometimes called NATO phonetic alphabet. Look that up on Wikipedia. It is used to avoid confusing words and letters which sound alike over radio in military and other applications.T/Z/E can sound alike...but "zulu" is distinct, as is "echo" or "tango".
"Don't." ✋🏽
Did anyone get this recommended after Abe died?
All clocks should be in militray time it's literally the default in most of the world especially in Europe
Classic.
i know right !!!
Back in the day when u cant download an app to get ur data....lolz
Yep
why we need a standard time zone
What time is it in belly dancing 💃 Iran
How many people can falsely be accused of bombing a marathon before the plane lands?
yep you got it how kill a man but your in a plane booo this shit harpoon ncis la it was tom her dad pal andson hideing the gun in the pawn shop i bout the web ha ha
And not a single Thank you for Smoking reference in the comments.
I put one there!
こんにちは😃
so do American civilians not understand 24-hour clock?
Its alot easier to interpret then AM and PM