Why Denmark used to be .04 seconds behind the world
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 17. 02. 2019
- Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn't. UPDATE, March 2023: The law has now been changed! www.ft.dk/samling/20222/lovfo...
Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)
Thanks to Thor Nielsen for the suggestion!
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Update, March 2023: the law has now been changed! www.ft.dk/samling/20222/lovforslag/l19/20222_l19_som_vedtaget.htm
Finally!!!
and now everyone's getting this in their feeds again lmao
Oh dang thatâs neat
This change reached national news in primetime, so came here to let you know about the change - but you even beat me to it! đź
Great news
Throws rock through border
Rock: *lags*
Tingorilla you deserve way more likesđ
Tingorilla nice
Throws rock back
Rock: Reported for cheating
lmao
Ping 1347ms
Every 60 seconds in Denmark, less than a minute passes. Together we can change it
Why does this feel suspiciously like a UK government ad campaign?
@@omardude39 Why does this feel like something Bono would say?
Isnât this a quote from somewhere?
@@kerriganqueenofblades7128 it's probably from "every 60 seconds in africa a minute passes. Together we can stop this"
Monty Python comes to mind⊠and yes Iâm a Dane.
2 years later and his code is still going strong: 0.17 seconds behind
18 now
.18 now at 2021/04/20
@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 lemme guess, you switched to the American dates for that one joke?
@@skyeplays1772 sorry, what? i don't understand you.
@@skyeplays1772 YYYY/MM/DD isnât the American date formatting...
It has finally been announced that the law will be updated to using UTC+1 on March 26th 2023 - it also involves establishing a Danish atomic clock and giving Greenland the right to govern their own time
That's cool!
honestly denmark could just disown greenland due to its "snow percentage"
Fantastisk! :D
"Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa"
People in Denmark: Well yes but no
Zabdiel Gudino đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Noice
donât you mean N O I C E
How do you compare a country with a continent though
.
So are we just going to keep overlooking the fact that this dude literally travels 100s and 1000s of miles just to stand in the middle of nowhere and talk to a camera.
Nobody says hundreds and thousands. People say hundreds of thousands. You could say hundreds or thousands, but in this case it's more like a thousand. I'm just being pedantic.
@@The1stFishBone "Nobody says hundreds and thousands" They just did, and I've seen many people say it that way before.
The1stFishBone my guy, im an author, âhundreds and thousandsâ isnt a misspelling of âhundreds of thousandsâ its a different phrase and is used commonly in English European countries
Who's mans is The1stFishBone? Somebody collect him and take him home please..
@@The1stFishBone Then what do you decorate your cakes with?! :O
âItâs probably not a good time to bother the British government right nowâ as true today as it was then, Tom
As true as it is today.... uhhh...., person on CZcams.
And as true today as it was a year agoâŠ
And especially true todayâŠ
Still valid today
Also today
Denmark citizen: I made a petition to the government
Denmark government: *actually listens*
_Impossible_
>denmark government
@@Zaire82 well, smaller govs actually are more likely to actually listen to their citizens.
it's like if you go to one of the politicians in your local gov's office and tell them of your concerns and propose a solution, they are more likely to listen than the politicians in your republics state or the overall government of your country as a whole.
Is it possible for other governments to learn this power?
@@zerotakis Not from a Jedi.
When you watch this video at exactly the right time:
_"Why Denmark Is .00 Seconds Behind The World"_
*well, duh...?*
what
how
what
how
what
how
Because the title of this video is programmed to show the exact number. For example at the moment, it's 0.18s but might be different in a week.
@@martinpusar6765 i know, I watched the vid but the comment above was great for starting a chain
The wildest thing about all this...
I am learning Danish. Have been for the last two years. And I could actually read all the stuff you showed in Danish. I am so happy!
Godt for dig
HĂ„ber du lĂŠrer det hele!
Sejt
Fedt mand, held og lykke med det! :)
I'm learning Swedish and it is similar enough for me to lÀser!
For 4 years Tom's code worked perfectly until in March 2023 apparently the law was changed.
*Casually writes up some code to dynamically change the title over time*
Not like that type of thing is hard. :-\
@@deanmoncaster of course not... I do it most mornings for fun.
from sélénium import webdriver gang
31/7/19
*0.16*
OrangeC7 was it earlier?
"yo dude why is your reaction time so slow?"
"oh sorry I live in denmark"
Thought it was because I get high, but apparently it's lag.
OMG This is the best comment here, you deserve 12000 likes, not 12.
âmy ping is kinda high due to me living in Denmark mbâ
I love that heâs standing in front of a Tycho Brahe statue, famous for being a great astronomer and for losing his nose in a duel over a mathematical formula.
And who died of feasting, which is not a fate many modern mathematicians can afford
@@theKobus And i think he had a pet moose!
it died when it fell down the stairs because it was drunk after a party.. or something close to that
As a person from Denmark, I always find it interesting to watch videos about Denmark.
Enig
Australia: âwe have the worst pingâ
Denmark: *oh I donât think so*
Denmark: -24 ping
@@sapphicromantic That's good, that means you can see the future.
Born in Denmark, live in Australia. Close call boys.
Nah im from denmark, when i play some games i get 140 ping
not how ping works but ok
It looks like the code I wrote to change the video title managed to break notifications somehow, so I've had to hastily reupload this - apologies! (And yes, it's ironic that this video is therefore late.)
but is it really ironic?
Tom Scott hmmmmm, uploaded from Denmark
Tom Scott hello
@@maxkantor-gerber311 đ y
It's well worth waiting for your videos.
So I finally clicked on a Tom Scott video a week or two ago and have steadily been binge-watching them since. They fill my "Random interesting stuff in a short video" niche nicely.
I love the pronunciation of "Dag Hammarsköljds vÀg" xD
Cheers from Sweden
the classic english gps vaj never fails to make me snicker like a fukkn lil kid
"I think laws should in general be in accordance with reality" - hahahahaha, adorable scientist!
Why is this the top comment
@@Artixxl it's great
@@Artixxl and new
@@Artixxl ur is weird
@@Artixxl and correct
I really love the fact that Tom actually visits each location to film, covering the exact spot, and talking with local experts. The best CZcamsr currently by far.
@@the_colorman checked out the channel. It's brilliant. Thanks for the suggestion.
Agree, fascinating!
I mean, if you want ridiculously high video production quality, give Mark Rober a try.
@@the_colorman Thanks for *_Lemmino_* about the channel
@@varma101 Get out
3:12 "Coordinated Universal Time, UTC." XD
Ah, yes, Uoordinated Tniversal Cime
its actually a compromise between french and English speakers combining CUT and TUC to be UTC
It's actually Universal Time Coordinated.
@@Kamel419 You ruined the joke
There are two ways you can commonly find it written in English, and neither one works:
- Coordinated Universal Time
- Universal Coordinated Time
This is incredible dedication Tom. Thanks for making a video in Denmark about Denmark.
The fact you wrote code to track clocks and update the title of this video is insane
@@pixiepandaplush I think the more annoying thing would be communicating with the CZcams API to change video names (if it exists) and finding a place to host the code which will always run (some server or scripting service) as well as securely storing his credentials there for the script to update the time automatically
@@keeyan2166 just a raspberry pi or old computer at home is perfect for this kind of thing
@@tommihommi1 any tutorials how to use youtube API? js script?
@@makak_zeleny hmm thanks! I'll ask my people about js, i suck in programming so maybe they can help
That's _so_ Tom.
When you've got time: _Yeah, I've got time._
This is totally me when Iâve got time
this is me when i have time
If you say so.
Me too thanks
A dangerous saying.
Really well done. The humor at the end made my day. Congrats!!
"It's not a good time to bother the British government" :'D This statement is only getting more correct
Right?!
And it just keeps on getting more correct.
Perfect final quote: "Y'know, it's probably not a good time to bother the British government right now." đ
The British would probably decide to have their own time. Just to be different from Europe.
The UK đŹđ§ doesnât need to be on UTC there are literally thousands of better time standards. Time is importan! We will Take back control and not be a subject of Europe anymore!!! Greenwiexit!!!
As an American living under Trump it does make me feel a bit better that the Brits are screwing themselves, too. I proposal a swap, Theresa for Donald. Trump will build a wall in Northern Ireland and May will help us break away from Florida.
+Jake Biddlecome Nah, Theresa would just make us subservient to Florida and strip us of our voting rights in an already undemocratic Congress after we pay billions of dollars just to delay because we decided that we werenât self-sufficient without Florida for some reason.
Couldn't we just dump them both in North Korea (after all Trump loves Mr Kim) then ask if we could become part of New Zealand?
"It's probably not a good time to bother the British government right now... It can wait, we've got time"
Well we've got about 39 days
And counting... (downwards)
+Asmodean Underscore Donât you mean 3,369,600 seconds, where one second is-
Yâknow what, Iâm not typing that out for a second time.
Evan Blenkinsopp a âsecondâ time
@@cosmicjenny4508 3.4 megasecond if you want to be fancy.
+Koray Acar Iâm actually annoyed at how easily I missed that. Kudos!
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
I am blown away by your commitment!
Denmark in .22 seconds: _Hey guys, there is this totally new virus, you better watch out!_
They're behind not ahead... đ
@@mycelia_ow | r/woosh
@@mycelia_ow You misunderstood the comment
@@mycelia_ow it works both ways
@@deadlystanger944 I think it was a joke about how some leaders weren't acknowledging the fact that it existed, and if Denmark actually did acknowledge it then, they would've been ahead of, say, the US, where some states are acting as if it doesn't even exist up til now lmao
So if the world is ending I should be in Denmark?
Naaw. Governmennt would figure out a way to tax you extra, for that fraction of a second.
@@AcolyteofRlyeh Tv tax
Yes cause then you die 20 seconds later than everyone else
Vulctrah .22
Danish Human Being er du konservativ
OKAY BUT WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HOW THE METROLOGIST IS LITERALLY CALLED MIKKEL NIELSEN WHILST TALKING ABOUT TIME THIS IS GENUINELY SCARING ME :D
why tho i dont get it
@@Crosshill Mikkel Nielsen is a character in the show dark
exactly wtf! the coincidence is uncanny
Love your videos Tom, nice one
Does anyone even know how old Tom Scott is? I donât know if heâs 23 or 43..
33?
@@Enzo012 34. You were so close
You copy comments.
Rashford is Red and youâre still single
is this a default pfp convention
The dinosaurs in Denmark .17 seconds after the meteor hit
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Nathan Wilson ?
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ArcadiusKirrk_the4th HAHAHAHAGSHHAAH
đđ đ
This comment is extremely underrated. You're a genius
Imagine when the Danish 100m runners figure out that they just need to move abroad
I kept seeing the video title as "18 seconds" and thought his programming had stopped working! But glad to see whatever amazing programming he's got is still ticking along behind the scenes.
"Earth drifts a little"
*Quietly playing Deja Vu in the background*
John Assassin hahahahaha âTakumiiiiiâ
deja vu but its 10,000 miles an hour and bass boosted
Haha
So Earth is basically delivering tofus?
Have I seriously gone 38 years without knowing the Earth... wobbles? o_O
Earth THICC
But you did know that weebles wobble, right?
Apparently so
Randy Ferengi Well now you know! Never too late to learn something
It's because the moon doesn't orbit the earth like you think, rather the earth and the moon orbit a center point like they were a dual planet. Because one is bigger than the other the center point is closer to the bigger object. In fact the center point is below the earth's surface but not all the way to the core. That's the "wobble".
Being Danish means, we have a right to make fun of whatever. Your presentation brings to mind a prescient popular song in America from 1959, it is titled SummerTIME Blues and is sung by the late Eddie Cochran.
The final verse goes:
I'm gonna take two weeks gonna have a fine vacation
Gonna take my problem to the United Nation
Well, I called my congressman and he said, quote:
"I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote."
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
But there ain't no cure for the SummerTIME blues
So, gentlemen don't hold your breath waiting on Parlaiment, you'll just have to keep twisting your old watch around till it ain't worth a skilling. Ask yourselves, what would Tyco Brahe do? he lived on Bornholm.
Tom Scott is probably one of the best narrators I can think of. I would put him up there alongside with Attenborough.
Excellent comparison, I wonder when Tom decided to become Attenborough when he grew up.
You know how the old saying goes: _Forever, and 86,400 seconds, where one second is 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two levels of the caesium atom._
I want a cesium atom!
Not just any caesium atomâŠ
Well said, sir.
@@carlwilkerson9722 you can't have it. It's radioactive.
@@renakunisaki Cesium-133 the isotope that makes up almost 100% of natural Cesium is not radioactive at all it's stable. Traces of other Cesium isotopes that are radioactive do exist in rocks that contain heavier radioactive isotopes that break down into it but they are too unstable to exist in more than trace quantities from natural decay processes. The only place you will find radioactive isotopes of Cesium in any significant quantity is in the byproducts of a recent (within a few centuries which is very recent in geological timescales) fission reaction. Since there the natural abundance of fissile isotopes like U-235 is now so low on Earth that it is no longer possible for a critical mass to form naturally and there hasn't been enough for that in a very long time the only way to get any significant quantity now is from an artificially enriched fissile material so basically nuclear reactors or atomic bombs etc.
My father .24 seconds after going to the store:
âIâm just getting milk Iâll be right backâ
comes back and brings 1000 liters of milk because the milkman tricked him
Must have disappeared with that leap second.
Sorry to hear that your father is danish.
Another one of Toms programing title scrypts is still working well. 5 years on. đđđ
So cool to see that you have been in my home country!
The fact that i live in denmark and i didn't know this, and it is really funny to listen to danish people talking english
Det er altid virkelig tydeligt
DENGLISH!
Isn't it fairly common?
You can always be proud that the Danish accent is really easy to understand than French or Spanish ones đ
I really hate danish accents
Every video on this channel makes me do the minecraft villager sound
yes
shut
@@HueHanaejistla no, u
Me 2 :P
hmmmhh
Another quality video, Mr. Scott!
Wonderful Channel, well done.
I have old calendars at home from around 1900+ that still contain time tables to synchronize your mechanical clock using mean solar noon. Useless today, but cool as a curiosity.
keep it enclosed, your grand-grandchildren will get filthy rich m8
@@elknackebroto7447 I'm keeping these items well protected. I consider them important part of my dragon hoard.
You could check with local museums if they'd be interested in scanning them in for the benefit of the public, in case they don't have a copy already. That stuff might be interesting to a few historians and it'd be neat to have that knowledge preserved for everyone. That and with letting them scan them in you still get to keep them for yourself while potentially helping others.
That GPS really needs to know how to pronounce those accent marks for the word VĂ€g
Nonsensical pronunciations are one of the great joys of GPS. You should hear what google makes of Irish or Welsh place names.
It does make it sound funnier though, and just a little bit dirty đ
Those are not accent marks. Judging by your name, you should know that Ă , Ă/Ă and Ă/Ă are unique letters :)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZĂ ĂĂ
@@fheedpexx9267 Well. Seeing as I didn't grow up in an English speaking country, I didn't know the proper term for non-english letters. But thanks for clearing that up đ
"VĂ€g" is actually pronounced closer to "vag" (in English) than it would have been without the accent.
At 2 am last night Denmark abandoned the old 1893 law. Today this guy got his way. From today weâre officially and legally synchronized with UTC.
"It's probably not a good time to bother the British government right now". Three years later, still waiting for the right time...
Any day now, I'm sure! They've gotta figure things out at some point! ....right?
The way the gps pronounced "dag hammarskjölds vÀg"
I wondered who they were talking about...
When the GPS pulls you out of the closet posthumously.
hey, we don't use those letters. That is our fatal enemies sweden
@@kaykrazzav2431 ööööÄÄÄÄÀÀÀÀÀÀ
@@thea58193 off it hurts deep in my delayed soul
Wait, You were on my home Island... The rest of the world wasnât supposed to know we existed!
How dare you expose us!!
Edit: I completely forgot I wrote this, Iâve been in Canada for the past 6 months so this went way over my head. Btw Iâm not from RĂžnne Iâm from one of the âsmallerâ villages on the island, Svaneke to be precise. And thanks for the likes and hope you are all staying safe and healthyâșïž
Here comes all the Swedes, Poles and Russians! :)
Honestly, I am from germany, 18 years old and currently studying and until last year I even didn't know that you existed... well, at least that you existed right above us
Are you an elf?
Don't give the Russians too many bright ideas. I mean the island nearly became a part of the Soviet Union after World war 2 and just imagine how history would've happened if they suddenly had a base there.
@@leonstruckmeier1053 I on the other hand, another teenage German, have spent 1.5% of my life on Bornholm (I actually calculated that)
Imagine living in a country where this is a concern. Denmark must be perfect or something.
we're not perfect, and thats why we will never stop raising concerns, its kinda like a hobby of ours, probably cause we gotta find something to fill our newspapers with
Nobody is concerned about this in Denmark. Alot of people don't actually know this.
@@asgerjensen9301 most people dont know about about clock trivia but i do think people should know that our true smug danish privilege is being able to raise any and all concerns we have
I think denmark has the highest rate of infidelity in the world so
@@berkerrang4149 you're gonna have to find some kinda source for that cause Japan does exist
3 years late but you traveled thru Ystad, Sweden. Very nice
UTC....Coordination...Universal...Time.....wait what?
France.
Just like "SI" standing for "International System", the abbreviation is French. "Universel Temps Coordonné" and "SystÚme Internationel"
Universal Temps Coordinée, I believe.
EDIT: Apparently NOT.
It's a compromise between the English speakers who wanted *CUT* as an abbreviation and the French speakers who wanted *TUC* _(Temps Universel Coordonné)_
McRaylie nope
"Mean Solar Noon" Sounds like a Fairy Tail spell
Who tf are u and y are u verified
GuyKiwi Heâs a youtuber? Donât be rude.
GuyKiwi who tf are you and why are you commenting on a year old comment as if Iâll reply
No
GuyKiwi Did you really have to be rude? There was other ways you couldâve structured that sentence to make it sound more polite.
3 years later and his code is still going strong
I love your videos!
I love the fact that stock markets are typically the driving factor for international coordination and syncronisation.
some companies have their servers physically located closer to the stock markets physical location, its really weird to think about the stock market like that
Money makes the world go round
0.07 seconds is also the world record for a 1x1x1 rubiks cube
Coincidence? *I think not*
Isn't the record 0s?
I did it in 0.000000000000000000000000000045692047 seconds, but camera technology still isn't advanced enough to record it
@@phjorland sjovt
The record should be 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000 seconds.
And thus rises The Rubik Conspiracy Theory. So cube, you tute.
0.10 to 0.11 seconds, this probably shows that winter time is different.
Elsewhere on that line there is a stone or concrete marker indicating the intersection with a round number latitude. I know because someone made an art project to photograph all such intersections of round numbered latitudes and longitude, and the artist noticed the marker. Many other intersection points were boring or on international borders.
Nobody:
CUT: I wanna be UTC
SI units
@@tf2excession UTC is not French nor English. In French it is Temps Universel Coordonné. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Astronomical Union wished to minimize confusion and designated one single abbreviation for use in all languages. They selected UTC since it does not favor any particular language.
@@a4d9 Well that just seems overly complicated...
Yep, instead of choosing something that fit with any language, they chose something that equally confuses everyone, because that totally makes sense.
@@peterroder4781 Why is an acronym confusing people? I think UTC rolls off the tongue better compared to C.U.T..
TL;DR for those of you without time to watch the video -
Back in 1678, the King of Denmark made a deal with an ancient Fey spirit to bring the country prosperity, in return for time off their lifespan. The king utilized a loophole in the deal to take .07 seconds off the life of every person in Denmark, fulfilling the requirements of the deal, but thereby cursing all of it's inhabitants to live in the past for the remainder of all time.
yes
seems legit
We all live in the past. When you look in the mirror you are not seeing you of right now but you from .00000001 seconds in the past. Even worse, even when an image forms on your retina it takes .0001 seconds for your rods and cones to generate an electrical differential which takes a further .01 seconds to travel down the optic nerve to your brain. Your brain has to take the raw signals and parse it for colours, shapes, depth, brightness, etc, a further .01 seconds. And your consciousness appears to operate on .05 second time slices like an old film projector so what you see could take a further .05 seconds to register on your consciousness. So, at best, we all live about .07 seconds in the past. Worse still if you look at distant objects like Alpha Centauri.
who doesnât have 6 minutes?
Fey spirits? Loopholes? The Danes? What have you been smoking and where can I get some?
So thatâs why theyâve just lost to England in the Euro 2020 semi-final...
Definitely
No, that was because Sterling felt a mild breeze and fell over.
or the laser
GOD I loved how England lost the final. Cheaters like sterling should be thrown out of football. Shameful player.
Iirc, England won gold in diving.
idk what it is, but toms videos are always satisfying to watch
British Parliament: *Discusses Brexit*
Tom Scott: Hey, Hey, Hey, Interpretation Act of 1978 is way outdated by tiny fraction of a second. Correct It
hey, at then they'd be doing something productive
The House of Lords tried, passing a bill to correct this in 1997. As far as I can tell, the Commons seems to have ignored it.
1:05 is... is this that dude with out a nose, who had an alcoholic pet moose, and died from holding in his pee?
yes... yes it is
The very same
What
@@kamii2278 the legend tycho brahe
and hired a dwarf yes
i love the videos that rewrite the titles amazing
"We've got time." Perfect ending.
So are you saying that this is what happens when you draw a line in the sand?
When you say to yourself, "when am I willing to put up with today?"
"NOT F***ING NOW"
Then we better not draw two lines in the sand.
@@nystemy 3 lines in the sand could do it
@@captainheat2314 4 lines is right out.
@@Zizzily 5 lines beats it all.
Current title: Why Denmark Is .24 Seconds Behind The World
1 week later, its still that
Yep still the same
Yep
Why did I make this
@@olbradley the kush slapped
And so it's official - on March 26th 2023 at 02:00 UTC+1 Denmark will finally adopt Coordinated Universal Time in its legislation :-)
An hour and 13 minutes ago, the change was made.
My country used to have it's own time zone because we did our daylight savings weird, but then some people decided it's easier if we're synchronized with everyone else so now it's much simpler
**Passes line**
**Elder Scrolls loading screen**
Ralof : "Hey you. You are finally awake."
Laws should be in accordance with reality? That's not a very popular opinion right now...
Ooof!! đ
well we in denmark think so at least.
don't know about the rest of the world
@Nekogami-Crystal well some of our politicians certainly doesn't think so *cough* Inger StĂžjberg *cough*
@@GummieI They can force unrealistic law but when harsh reality come knocking in it will breaking through like an angry steel rhino.
*Cough* is-ought problem *cough*
I think it is amazing that I see this video now and you for two was in Sweden and the city Ystad I live in.
I actually live on Bornholm, and I really like really wanted to see you
The British should decide it through a referendum, that always works swimmingly.
Lithostheory Update: the people voted to bring back mean solar time.
It should but apparently 47 million Brits dont understand how democracy works. Democracy is that the majority votes. The majority voted to leave the EU. Yet every remainer and their mums are blocking it at every turn!
CrazyInWeston 52% voted to leave. What a high majority you have there
@@goran5844 still a majority, big or small, it still is
âSwimminglyâ
It's cool how you actually travel to these places, unlike other fact CZcamsrs!
The âweâve got timeâ at the end killed it for me.
Thanks for the video, Iâm really interested in this topic and it honestly bugs me that Spain has the same time as Germany although theyâre so much further west.
You know it [Spain changing its time zone to that of Germany] was done in solidarity with Nazi Germany.
Maybe that's a myth, but I think it's true.
I will NEVER ask Tom what time it is!
_Why Web Filters Don't Work: The Dag-Hammer-Schultz-Vag Problem_
*Dag Hammarskjölds vÀg
sounded more like a vage to me
but then again, we're transcribing it into english, one of those wonderful languages where spelling is only loosely connected to the pronunciation
We have a "Dag Hammarkjöld Weg" in the (rather small) town of 20k inhabitants i live in Germany. So it's not so uncommon to remember him.
@@rarbiart not sure who you're responding to, no-one said anything about Hammarskjöld
but there does seem to be Dag Hammerskjöld [road] everywhere, especially in sweden
I'm right now next to one in Uppsala, a google search shows there's also one in stockholm, and as the video showed, there's also one in sourthern sweden
not the strangest guy to name lots of roads after
@Joakim Magnusson Fredlund if you ever pass by Kunskapsskolan Norra try to see if you can spot me ;)
April 3 2019, Current title: Why Denmark Is .12 Seconds Behind The World
Almost two weeks later, already up to .13 seconds.
april 19 2019 0.14s
Just switched to 0.14s.
.14 as of April 22.
.15 as of may 4
This man comes up with the most obscure, sometimes mundane video segments that are simultaneously very interesting to watchđ
Im watching at 0.17
I think it's crazy that there's a thing that you can do that changes the title of your CZcams video everytime something else changes
this always blows my mind
Other people make spelling and grammar mistakes in the titles of their videos and just leave them there; Tom Scott writes a script to continually update the title of his video to be accurate as time goes by. âŻ
5:58 - GMT, GBP, stones; and people give the US flack for ignoring standards and doing its own thing. ÂŹ_ÂŹ
tbh I now really want to know how the script works.
I guess we're a month or so away from someone trying to pass a law to revert everything back to pounds and ounces...and what ever a gill is.
Fleeing from progress in leaps and bounds.
@@_Piers_ But we will love not having to deal with having the GBP inside the common market anymore.
@@Poldovico Shame about the Krone, Krona, Kuna, Koruna, Lev, Leu, Florint and Zloty though I guess, well that and the Swiss Franc is in the single market too though not in the EU or EEA. Actually no isn't there an Exclave of Italy in Switzerland that uses the Franc too?
Bold of you to assume Denmark exists
Thanks, we danes think so too
Bold of you to assume Tom Scott exists.
@magnus hansen It does exist but it is a few milliseconds out of sync with the rest of the world, which is why it is impossible to get there unless we have a time machine.
magnus hansen somethings not adding up here
Hendrik van Kampen youâre right Iâm sorry
This was educational and funny. Thank you.
He went all the way to Bornholm to tell us this. Well done you!
"... to get UTC back in line with the annoyingly real Earth and stars" might be one of the most amusing ways to summarize the sisyphian struggle to define convenient absolute measures.
Another great video, Tom!
I was wondering when Brexit was going to come up....
39 days. You're welcome.
lets not bother them with that right now. We still got time.
@@korenn9381 I didn't say brexit was a good thing.
@@miscellaneous.7127 neither did I? I made a lame joke to your comment ;)
@@korenn9381 Oh yes I understand sorry, It is often difficult to infer someone's exact meaning when communicating through text! :)
My friend lives in bornholm, fascinating vid
I live on Bornholm. Itâs nice When someone is making a video about this place and it gets so many views! I donât feel like many know this island