CP Time

[Alice Faber]

--On Thursday, November 4, 2004 4:47 PM -0500 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> At 3:23 PM -0600 11/4/04, Patti J. Kurtz wrote:
>> Or like 'Indian time," which is generally used in the west to refer to
>> the casual attitude towards time that Native Americans tend to have.
>>
>> Patti Kurtz
>
> this must indeed be a very general phenomenon.  When I was giving
> talks in Aix-en-Provence (in the south of France) in 1977 I was
> informed that I should allow for "le quart d'heure aixois", the Aix
> Quarter-Hour, encapsulating the idea that everything there can be
> expected to begin 15 minutes after the officially posted time, or by
> implication 15 minutes after it would have started in uptight
> northern places like Paris, London, New York, etc.

At one point in my life, friends of mine referred to this as "Jewish time".