Which Country Is Always Running Late? | QI
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This clip is from QI Series R, Episode 1, 'Rude' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, John Barrowman, Aisling Bea and Phill Jupitus. - Розваги
Did you guys coordinate this release with Tom Scott lol
Isn't Tom Scott's video about Denmark being behind like 3 years old ?
@@FogToo he posted a video about the British telling time 2 hours ago
Nah, Sandi and team QI were a quarter of a second behind Tom Scott in posting this…
I wonder how much overlap there is between QI’s and Tom Scott’s subscribers.
Just though this myself 🤣
Alan’s brand of humor is so unique. God that guy is funny.
Meh, he’s okay, but not as funny as some make him out to be, in my opinion, anyway. Plus, he interrupts others way too much. So many times I haven’t got to hear the end of what someone else was saying because of his interruptions.
@@isabellaangeline2175 He almost certainly has ADHD (he exhibits all of the symptoms). In which case, it's a symptom of his condition. I think he's very funny indeed, and razor sharp.
Are you american?
@@lawrencewellington2343 are you from the UK?
@@thegoodgeneral India, thus following Commonwealth english.
My new favourite excuse: "It was herring season"
That only ever applied in Scotland. Having said that they used to bring it with them when they followed the herring down the east coast. So the answer is yes urm no urm possibly.
@@bigblue6917 Only in Scotland? Are you mad? Herring season is a big deal in all of Scandinavia! Just applied in Scotland... It's herring season! Herring! It's a big deal!
Herring! Always and forever!
It's always herring season. :P
The dutch have herring season too. The sale of the first barrel of new herring is a yearly event.
The fact that they've used Aisling's face in the thumbnail makes this a very subtle Irish joke.
Lucky they didn't call it the Coordinated Unified National Time. Although, it is what I usually scream when I'm running late.
Not me, I run on Indian time, and that is even further behind Denmark.
I usually go for Simmilarly Honored International Time.
I really wonder if this is a coincidence given the video Tom Scott uploaded earlier or if someone who runs the QI channel just happaned to have this ready to upload and deicded to upload it to match Toms video.
It was a very timely video.
Yeah, I was thinking the same, odd coincidence, that two pretty much unrelated channels (except being British) uploaded a video on time. (He even has a pinned comment explaining why they call it UTC.)
Tom Scott and the LA Express?
Tom Scott has appeared in the QI credits before ("special thanks"), so they are at least aware of each other.
Tom did a full Video on Danish Time back in 2019. Denmark does use UTC (they have to because all their banks need to sync with other banks in other countries, and so on), but they have never actually updated their laws. They ignore the law instead. Very Danish! But if QI did reference it, they got the numbers wrong. Tom has added code to the title of his video so that it always shows what the time error is. It changes throughout the year until it is corrected with a leap second. As usual, and interesting vid from Scotty! ua-cam.com/video/yRz-Dl60Lfc/v-deo.html
“UHT” and “Birds” lol. I remember this episode, such a good fact. Don’t think this is the first question about clocks and time. K - “Keeps” and I - “Intelligence”. There was an episode where Steven was teaching us about Ruth Belville who sold time in London. Another episode he was explaining about the Babylonians being one of the first to divide the day into 24h. Can’t remember the episodes though.
Just came here from Tom Scotts video on atomic clocks
One time when QI discussed vinegar, if you watched the credits then you can spy Tom Scott's name.
Ditto!
@@breakinggreens different Tom Scott
@@speckopath6288 Why do you think so? Tom does have a video on vinegar.
@@qwertyTRiG As far as I know, "Tom Scott" gets credited in every QI Outro. I looked it up a while ago because I also was curious and it turned out that it was just someone else with the same name working there.
The 60 seconds in a minute and so forth came from not the Babylonians but rather the ancient Sumerians who used a Base 60 number system. This is also why there are 360 degrees in a circle as it facilitates using time to calculate navigation and longitudinal position.
I wondered if the 360 degrees in a circle, and the almost 360 days to go round the sun was a coincidence, or an inspiration.
@@GuanoLad Its a coincidence. In fact, when the earth first formed there were over a thousand days in a year. The time it takes to go 'round the sun hasn't changed, but the time it takes earth to rotate about its own axis has slowed significantly.
@@Monochromicornicopia okay, but presumably it was 365 days at the time of the Sumerians. Were they inspired to make a circle have 360 degrees by the length of a year, or is it unrelated? I have heard that there's no evidence to support it, but that surprises me as it seems like a logical starting point to work from.
@@GuanoLad I don't see any obvious connection between the two. That's what makes it a coincidence
@@Monochromicornicopia They're both circles divided up into almost the same number? Its fine to express doubts, but if you can't see that connection, I don't know what to say.
Many Canadians would have a different answer from listening to the CBC , everytime something is anounced it is added "...a half hour later in Newfoundland"
In Québec, we had “une heure plus tard dans les maritimes” (and I don’t have to translate 😋)
Is that due to time zones or just because Newfoundland is seen as a bit backwards? UK equivilent would be Norfolk (although Mr. Fry may disagree)
@@RoboCatTrainer Newfoundland, now called "Newfoundland and Labrador" is in it's own time jone, east of Atlantic time. It is the only place in the world that is in that time zone, sort of in a bubble. It's called "Newfoundland Standard time. Thing is, Labrador (lhe continental part of the provence) is not in that zone, but in Atlantic Time.
@@RoboCatTrainer It's due to time zones. Newfoundland's time zone is officially one-half hour off from (almost?) every other time zone in the world. If it's 9:00 in Labrador, then it's 9:30 in Newfoundland. To my mind, the half-hour time difference would be quite difficult to manage when working with anyone not in NF, but I guess they're quite used to it.
We all here in Denmark love Sandi so it would work
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A rather late reply this is, Sir... 😉
@@zoltanposfai3451 A Danish is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means to
🙃😉😉🙃
@@M.W.Zastrow dunno about that i ordered Danish at my local bakery I was waiting 45 minutes before I got it being british I tutted while waiting but when I got it, it was fresh from the oven or whatever they're cooked in and by God it was lovely
@@michaelsingleton5173 Good things come to those who wait, but we call it a "kanelsnegl" cinnamon snail.
@@M.W.Zastrow Forgive my ignorance, but I recall reading that what we refer to as "Danish" pastries, are call "Viennese" in Denmark. Is there any truth to that?
Aisling flirting with John in this episode was hysterical.
I just hope he didn't do what he often does in the workplace...
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 I don't agree with that in the workplace.
@@yannatoko9898 commenting on UA-cam videos?
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 smoke?
@@zapkvr sexual harassment - he's been known for flashing on set
Aisling Bea is so beautiful
'you are a quarter of a second early' 😂
This was one of those rare occasions I actually knew every single fact in this video. Of course I couldn’t remember the exact number of cycles of radiation emitted from caesium atoms electron become excited and then dropping an energy level is a second but I know it was in and around 10 billion. Thank you Tom Scott and Numberphile and at least one other UA-cam video.
im guessing the other youtube video was this one lol
I wanted Rod Gilbert to be there and wind Sandi up about the 24 hour darkness again.
Nicely timed upload with Tom Scott's channel.
WHOOAA just checked! Wickeeedd))
I'm probably late to notice this but I love that they've changed the ending to close the laptop so that Sandy isn't bugging us to pick something
You're much more than a ¼ second late to notice that.
You're late, yes. It's several months since that change was made. Huge improvement!
They changed it because people complained about Sandi's (fake) exasperation. But this one has been around long enough for people to complain about *it.*
@@JimC In fairness, the problem with Sandi's exasperation in that ending is that, well, she does it too well.
Being repeatedly told off over and over again... through repetition, it loses the comedy and then just becomes almost bullying. Like being told you're "no good" by a family member all your life, it eventually gets to you and you start believing it, regardless of your achievements in life.
Imposter syndrome. Depression. Feeling guilty.
With such repetition, it's almost as if Sandi is "gaslighting" you. The comedy long gone, the misery endures...
You get the gist. Once is funny. After the 1034th time, though, you start questioning your existence. Feeling miserable for always letting Sandi down. It too rapidly switched from joke to tragedy to misery.
It had to be cut.
@@klaxoncow To the complainers: just stop the video before the ending. You get the gist.
I stopped watching the first ending because I got bored with it. Ditto this one. But just reading all the complaints has gotten me to question *my* existence! 🤣 I think I'll stop doing *that.* 🤣
I just love this show!
Alan was on fire here. 🔥
Exp mate, he does'nt need to put any extra effort, he is been doing this for ages to get have an instinctive response to everything
Nice seeing Barrowman on a panel show. Need more of him
Pretty sure he is doing the apology tour after the fallout from his behavior on Doctor Who. I'm glad to see him again.
I thought the issue was that some people had seen too much of him already.
a great compilation of so many stories. All it was missing was a blue whale reference
My favorite thing about the discussion about why 60 seconds in a minute - is that it is a human created construct. In the french revolution and again 2 more times later, the French tried to make time base 10 and decimal format to be in line with the metric system by designing a 100 second minute and 100 minute hour. It fits with the 24 hour clock and would make time based math soo much easier! Can you imagine if all life was base 10?
sounds like it would be so much easier. why didn't they succeed and why didn't others adopt it if they did?
A friend and I did all the math for a base 10 time system once! Oh how I wish it was real
@@alexrowaan7326 Me too!! Would make life so much easier!
@@robertoseveno A few reasons probably. i don't think that they had enough education about the system or why and maybe it didn't seem like it was needed. There is a great Mental Floss article Ill list below
@@robertoseveno Sheer perversity of other nations, one imagines - because they didn't think of it...
I'd have said the Philippines. If you're hosting a party that starts at 8PM you tell everyone to arrive by 7PM and they'll show up sometime between 8 and 9.
Bathroom: you're Russian, then European, then Finnish.
Could you please turn on the possibility for adding subtitles for your videos? I'm hard of hearing and using the subtitles-button helps me a lot when watching videos on YT.
Always such good entertainment
The meridian that Western Australia's timezone is measured from is far to the east of Perth, which means Perth has half an hour of daylight saving all year.
It's older than that, it comes from how the Sumerians counted: on one hand you count every knuckle on four fingers which gives us twelve; then count the twelves on all the fingers of the other hand which is five; five times twelve is sixty.
More likely, if you're going with counting hand-parts, is counting the 12 "pads" you have on the palm side of your fingers, especially since you can count them off using the thumb on that hand.
“You’re late”
“I’m danish!”
As a staunch lobbyist for the usage of 10 hour decimal clocks I firmly believe we have suffered the rule of the 60 minute clock long enough!
that's what the french wanted, no?
100.000 decimal seconds a day, instead of 86.400
2,4 hour in one decimal hour
5 o' clock? Time for lunch!
That sort of thing? xD
nah, 60 is superior. If anything, we should get rid of base 10. Change to a base 12 number system
Good job Elves posting this so quickly after Tom Scott's video.
I can't wait to get to this episode, I'm late with my QI series watching... Much more than 250 ms
UTC was decided on because it follows the Universal Time convention, the same as UT1, UT2, etc.
I thought this was going to be something about Ireland, since it uses the same time zones as the UK, but is behind because it’s further west. Dublin is about 25 minutes behind London, so e.g. if the sun sets at 6PM in London, it sets at 6:25PM in Dublin. The difference gets larger the further west you go.
If that was the case, China would be a better choice since it only uses 1 time zone (afaik) all throughout the massive country.
... or 25 years behind, in cultural time.
@@phily8093 We're not there yet, but we're getting there. . .
I was thinking of Ireland too. I remember reading this on Wikipedia:
In Ireland, the Standard Time Act 1968 legally established that the time for general purposes in the State (to be known as standard time) shall be one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time throughout the year. Ireland therefore operates one hour behind standard time during the winter period, and reverts to standard time in the summer months. This is defined in contrast to the other states in the European Union, which operate one hour ahead of standard time during the summer period, but produces the same end result.
Danish time zone is Gudhjem time. The time where is’t astronomical 12 o’clock at Gudhjem at Bornholm. Absolutely a lovely place to visit. It means Goods home time. Maybe we are the ones that have it right… 🇩🇰
I'd have thought it would be the swiss. Just in an attempt to keep up their watch sales.
2:27 Paris mean time
I thought the answer was gonna be spain! A czech friend lived in barcelona for a month and was astonished they ate dinner at like 8pm and the sunset at like 10
sunset depends on the time of the year and the part of the country
@@yourmum69_420 yeah but spain is incredibly far south for a place that has a sunset at 10pm at any time of the year. i think its bc spain uses UTC+2, a time zone centralized around egypt in the east
@@razzledazzle1683 nah I’m pretty sure it’s only +1 hour. That is unusual though since it’s so far west. Most of maintain Europe is all +1, so they’re all in sync.. but Spain is actually west of the UK where we have GMT. So yeah I guess that would make the sunsets later than most countries… especially if you’re at the most western part above Portugal and it’s summer
@@razzledazzle1683 *mainland
Well *obiously* it *is* birds .................. You ever see a bird wearing a wrist watch?
Yet they navigate with considerable accuracy, so they *have* to be able to measure flight time (amongst other things) or the'd get stuck above clouds sometimes wondering whether its time to descend or not.
And they don't get left up there ~ so....
Obviously they know when its time to knock off.
2:17 universal time coordinates
Although both civilizations occupied the same region of the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers, using 60 as the basis for mathematics actually predates the Babylonians, as there were the Mesopotamians before them who developed the base-60 counting-system!
Only 87 Comments as of 2.10 am (+.25 of a second) on 5/4 and I see everyone bothered to read the comments and only 1 person mentioned Tom Scott 🤓
I just mentioned him there.....but I think i got away with it 🥴
Co-ordinated Universal Time (CUT)
+
Temps Universel Coordiné (TUC)
=
UTC (Universal Time, Co-ordinated)
John Barrowman can be silly and wrong all he wants, I'll still watch it.
…Birds?
I have to ask. What is the PMT that Sandi was referring to at 2:26?
Prairie Micro-tech Inc.
I'm assuming she's referring to Pearl Milk Tea. It's an East Asian drink that's a mix of tapioca, milk, tea, and sugar. It's better known in the US as Bubble Tea.
Surely the klaxon answer to Who is Always Late? would have been "A Russian person" (rushing)
Barrowman!
time measured in 60s comes from the Persian method ov counting in base 12. its the war that unified Greece and made the Spartians house hold names and the peace that came from expelling the Persian empire from the Pelopenesian bay and the trade culture that developed around the two cultres that got the mix up base10/base12 we have now.
I teach my students about why we use 60 for minutes and 360 for degrees every year
Birds !!
Still trying to work out why birds would need the ability to count to sixty.
Latevia , obviously
They got the idea for 24 hours in a day because King Nebuchadnezzar liked Blackbird Pie for dinner.
I thought it was going to be a pun, like "Slow-venia" or something.
They did try Co-ordinated Universal Normalised Time, but the acronym just didn't work... :P
Tom Scott released a good video on this, this very day.
...isn't it Babylonian, originally?
Oh, hey, I was right!
Although I didn't know the whole "60 is a useful number to divide by", though - I just knew the weird "we derive our timekeeping from Dagon worshippers."
Babylon is, like, for the birds, man. 🦅
is this about CPT?
Didn’t they already have a discussion about why time is a certain number of minutes and hours when Stephen was the host? I think bill bailey and Jeremy Clarkson were there and they decided to start their own time with 20 hours.
Of course! The mina bird!
I have always wondered why there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day. It seems like every other division of time has a natural reason for it. I had always assumed that a second was (roughly) an Adult resting heartbeat, but I never understood why there were 60 of them in a minute. Now I know. Thank you.
Everyone I work with is ALWAYS late🙄
Tweeted in 60s, 1/4s late. :P
Who counted the vibrations?
Caesium 133 to be precise
Adhd'ers are always late as is said, but i Remedy this by always being early.
UTC universal time constant?
Nope, although that is a phrase that could use UTC as its acronym, "UTC" was chosen as a name that 'sort of feels right'.
... but where did the birds get it from?
Ancient aliens.
Birds
These wonderful, magnificent creatures that came to our planet suddenly in 1962 and gave humanity Universal Coordinate Time
This is weird but I can't decide if I think Aisling is attractive or not.. She does have something.. Maybe the Irish accent I've always found that attractive in a female from Ireland.. Esp Saoirse Ronan
Ireland , where I'm from
I really like the way time works. 6/12 is my favourite number. Mainly because of use, hexagons being the bestagons etc.
I’d say humans should create 2 new numbers. Make 12 the new 10, much more useful.
Best of the metric and some parts of the imperial system of measurements.
Edit: if you’re winding why hexagons are the bestagons; ua-cam.com/video/thOifuHs6eY/v-deo.html
But we only have ten fingers! Wouldn't work. In order to count, we'd have to take off one sock.
this only works when it has practical use for the majority of people. It doesn't.
The French also wanted to implement a 10 hour day, next to their metric system.
The former failed, because people will stick to what they know if that works out.
People didn't want to buy new clocks either and the churches were going nuts.
We have them 10 fingers. PC has relied on hexadecimal, because it's shorter... But also on binary xD
I suppose we will stick to them 10 fingers forever ;) Stuff like percentage and promillage would be affected as well.
People don't like change, less when they get older and there are a lot of us ;)
@@corbeau-_- the fact you said “I suppose we’ll stick to them 10 fingers forever” and ended it with a “;)” really shows a difference in outlook.
I find it saddening.
Same with the second sentence you ended with a “;)”.
@@AndreasVNesje or raise and lower the hand as well.
Or genetic modification.
@@purpledevilr7463 I used to do a lot of work in hexadecimal, but that's an entirely different story! 🙂
can someone smart tell me why they dont use something that vibrates less often?
Because it would be less accurate. More vibration = more accuracy. In fact; scientists are currently researching replacing Caesium, which "only" vibrates at roughly 9 billion Hz, with Strontium in atomic clocks because the Strontium vibrates at 444 trillion Hz.
The fact that UTC doesn't actually mean anything is hilarious to me 😂
it shows that even the brightest are petty...
@@corbeau-_- On the contrary, being able to come up with a solution that not only works but also 'feels' right is very pragmatic.
Ethiopia is 8 years late. They are still using the Julian calendar.
Putin ALWAYS makes people wait. He made Queen Elizabeth wait 14 min. He made the Pope wait 2 hours.
ELEVEN other numbers... sorry to be that guy
Oh, thank you... I counted three times, and still wasn't sure
No, 12 other numbers. Because 60 is the number and the divisor. So it´s 12 other numbers (if you talk about divisors, which she did). It´s mathematics language. So her terminology is correct.
@@bowlchamps37 12 numbers, of which 11 are *other*
Loving how many qi fans are Tom Scott fans they are exactly the same breed of nerd. We need a correlation graph. Maths nerds get on it
In case someone's interested how and why 60 became the basis of some systems (like for the time) - it is not the birds, obviously, but our fingers. People, back in the day, used to count on fingers for majority of things, as most were uneducated. So the simplest system was, with your left hand you use your thumb and you count the segments on the remaining 4 fingers (3 segments each, so 12 in total), and then you had another 5 fingers on your right hand that were used for multiplication.
5x12=60.
Plus all the actual mathematical benefits of 60. Now, I hear you say, why didn't they use the same system on both left and right hand? 12x12=144! Well, my dear reader, it was pointless and too complex. The whole finger was used as a multiplication so the user does not get confused what he is counting and how. You add on one hand, multiply on the other. And it gives you a very nice number to play with.
10 was used as a basis for the very same reason - it's just that the system was different.
Isn't it strange? Our entire mathematical system and engineering based on that, is directly tied to biology, our evolution, and how we decided to use our fingers for counting stuff. Quite interesting I'd say.
Birds.
time does not really exist in denmark.
LOL ..... 🤣👍😂😁
Why does barrowmen have his American accent on British tv?
our words for minute and second come from the Latin terms for the Babylonian sexagesimal fractions
first minute portion = minute
second minute portion = second
Just after this clip cuts John Barrowman started waving his willy around.
The immortal Captain Jack is starting to show his age.....
But he has aged well. :)
I fucking know this Tom Scott covered it god it kills me when this happens but with my apsergers and love of facts I can never remember the relevant one at the relevant time, like rn I'm also trying to think of a prescription of siezure meds and the names of 3 youtubers but all I can think of are facts about wave functions and fluid dynamics in a tube except now that I've said that I've forgotten that and I'm thinking of giant quaking aspen stands in utah like pando and ginko balboa trees pausing senescence at 500 years old and not iguanas have a 3rd eye on the back of the head to watch for avian predators
Now blue whales release 40 gallons of semen when mating only like 10% of which makes it in
I was waiting for someone to say the procrasti nation.
I thought it might be Burma because, as with the U.S. of A., they never adopted the metric system.
I don't care what anybody says ....nothing can vibrate at 9,192,631,770 times a second.
Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce
My god, Captian Jack can't be far from the face of Bo
Caesium was spelt wrong in that diagram!
Nope. It’s an accepted alternate spelling in English.
@@g33xzi11a Is it? I did not know that. That's quite interesting.
Whoever wrote this never met Indians 😂
Clips with John Barrowman are now very hard to watch, ever since he was dropped from tv shows for allegedly repeatedly exposing himself to cast members
I had not heard that, I don't really watch/listen to/read the news.
Oh, please.
Save your pearl-clutching.
And it isn't "allegedly" anything.
At times on set he was naked. It wasn't "at" anyone and included when he was filming nude/sex scenes.
But of course it sounds more salacious and dramatic to only say "exposed himself, allegedly" knowing that people will assume it was a Louis CK type scenario.
Good move using Aisling Bea as click bait.
Phil Jupitus is to Sandy what Jack Whitehall is to Stephen
It winds me up, cultures that are always hours late. An event starts at 7pm... [ insert culture ] turns up 2 hours later, especially those who think they are important.
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