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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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If there's EET for eastern european time and CET for central european time, we should have a WET time. I guess in the shower there already is.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or Universal Time Coordinated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, there's a slight difference between GMT and UTC: GMT becomes BST (in the UK) during summer, while UTC doesn't follow Daylight Saving Time and is tied specifically to the atomic clock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GMT doesn't become BST as far as I'm aware, GMT is UTC+0 all year round, and BST is UTC+1 all year round, it's just that in the summer the UK switches from GMT to BST.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean if you specify GMT, one could assume that you need to apply DST during summer, while UTC is garanteed to be static.

[–] dohpaz42 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funny enough, it’s actually Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).

[–] doughless 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dohpaz42 2 points 1 week ago

Oof. Thanks for the correction!