Turkish Time.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VII, Issue 68, 19 September 1901, Page 2

Turkish Time.

A recent visitor to Constantinople reports one custom of the Turks which causes a vast deal of trouble and confusion. This is the Turkish system of reckoning time. A ! Turk holds that the day begins exactly at sunset. At that time he sets his clocks and watches at the hour of twelve. As the sun has the same habits in presiding over Turkey that he exercises with regard to other localities, it may easily be seen that this system of reckoning time necessitates setting the clocks every day. It appears that a watch which could run for weeks without gaining or losing a minute would be of no special value to a Turk. Lord Roberts. In connection with a smart ride after party of rebels, on the eventful march to Cawnpore, during the Indian Mutiny, Lord Roberts chronicles good-humouredly a mot against himself. Watson (one of the cavalry officers) had the forefinger of his right hand badly cut in an encounter with a young sowar. I chaffed him at allowing himself to be nearly cut down by a mere boy, upon which he laughingly retorted : ' Well, boy or no boy, he was bigger than you!' A Chinaman was speaking to himself as he ironed a shirt. He picked up a shirt showing evidence of having been well oared for, and said: 'Bachelor. Him landlady fix him. All 'ee same welly ni'.' He picked up another, buttonless, and all frayed at the wrists and neck, and remarked : ' Mallied man.'