Last Chance! Sale Ends in a Few Hours

Our current print sale ends this evening at midnight Maine (Eastern) time.

That's 11:00 in Chicago, 10:00 in Denver, and 9:00 in Beegum, Copperopolis, Prunedale, and Skidoo, California*.

(And 6:00 a.m. Saturday Sept. 21st in Paris, and 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Adelaide, Australia**.)

Just a word to visitors and new friends: we really don't continue our sales past the ending time. Orders are cut off at that time, and that's the end of it. We really mean it, so don't assume we'll make exceptions after the deadline.

Here's a link to the order page [link removed—sale ended 9/20/13] and also a link to the sale announcement page where you can find all the information you need about the sale.

We want to thank everybody who participated in this sale and/or in any of TOP's print sales! Thanks very much.

—Mike, TOP majordomo

*Real town names, not making those up.

**That sounds like an old George Carlin joke, but that's what the Internet Time Converter page said, so I'm goin' with it. If somebody wants to explain that to me that would be cool, but please type slowly.

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Featured Comments from:

Martin Doonan: "If you want a weird time zone, go look up Nepal.... Got my order in late Friday night (Philippines time), nearly forgot!"

Ken Lunders: "Beegum by gum! That's a new one I'll have to go see next time I'm up that way. I'm surprised you didn't mention Fiddletown, being one terminus of the famous narrow gauge Fiddletown & Copperopolis railroad."

Comments

[michaelg]

You don't have to go too far to find weird time zones. Newfoundland essentially has its own time zone, which is also skewed by half an hour. This happened as a result of Newfoundland being a separate country when time zones were established.

According to Wikipedia the provincial government tried to synchronize it with the rest of Canada in 1963 but failed.

[Steven House]

It's true some places are in time zones offset by half an hour. I didn't realise Adelaide was one, but I have been in Newfoundland ... and the half hour was the least of its weirdness! Only kidding ...

[V.I. Voltz]

Central Australia, including Adelaide, should be at GMT +9, but to facilitate trade with the eastern States, the government set the time as GMT + 9.5. There are several examples of non-standard time zones.
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html

Voltz (in Adelaide)

[Hans Berkhout]

Mike , on the sale announcement page: John Paul's portrait is mirror from the one on his web site.
H.

[True. I turned them around so they'd be facing each other. With permission, of course. --Mike]

[Nigel]

Really sorry not to be able to participate in this one, as it was highly appealing and generously priced... But current cashflow did not allow.

[Jim Witkowski]

Here's a trick question. What would the time be in Phoenix?

[4:37? Sorry, the same George Carlin joke again. --Mike]