On 2025-11-10 17:42, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
On 2025-11-10 16:00, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
Each Remembrance
Day (11 November) at 11:00am local time
In some sense the Melbourne sculpture was broken even when it was dedicated in
1934, as the World War I armistice took place on 1918-11-11 at 11:00 UT, so its
Gregorian-calendar anniversary occurred at 21:00 Melbourne time in 1934 and will
occur at 22:00 Melbourne time this year - i.e., about two hours after Melbourne
sunset.
It'd take quite a bit of mirror trickery to fix *that*!
Commonwealth countries commonly observe 2 minutes silence at 11:00 local, since
1919, and/or also commonly on the nearest Sunday (Remembrance Sunday) at 11:00
local, since 1939, often coordinated nationally with broadcast ceremonies (local
timezone state/province/territory ceremonies in Australia and Canada) held at
cenotaphs or war memorials, where the silence is preceded by the "Last Post",
and followed by "Reveille", as in a traditional night vigil to guard and honour
the dead.
🥀 Lest We Forget / Je me souviens
[ ^ "Recessional" - Rudyard Kipling, 1897]
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