Ok, here is my take on this - maybe I'm just as screwy as Russell (or maybe
moreso). I don't think it has anything to do with Star Wars. The similarity
to "May the FORCE be with you" is simply a clever way to confuse people.

Russells original post...

>>        May the Fourth be with you.
>>
>>Here now and for the next 49 or so hours somewhere or other.

Somewhere on earth (probably where Russell lives) it becomes May 4th before
it does so in any other time zone. So, it's May 4th for Russell - but not
for all the other time zones yet. For this discussion assume that there are
only 24 distinct time zones each 1 hour apart. So, 1 hour later it becomes
May 4th in the next time zone. Now it is May 4th in 2 time zones... and so
on. So each hour another time zone is added to the ones that have a current
date of "May 4th". After the first time zone has had it's 24 hours of May
4th the "last time zone still has another 23 hours of May 4th to go. Hence
the "for the next 49 or so hours somewhere or other". (I think it might
really be "the next 47 or so", but I'm not going to bother figuring it out)

Jeez, I can't believe I'm trying to explain this. Ok, whatever, it's Star
Wars.

-- Mark

>
> > Yeah but.  But.  I mean.  Of course it's that, but I mean, it has to be
> > more deep than that because that was too obvious, no?
> >
>
> You were expecting something from Russel's post let alone Star Wars to be
> deep? ;-)
>
> Rob Young
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