Poll: time perception

If “moved” and “pushed” are interchangible,
and “forward” and “up” mean the opposite of “back”, then I would say Monday.

Monday.
The meeting has been moved forward 2 days.
The meeting has been pushed forward 2 days.
The meeting has been moved up 2 days.
The meeting has been pushed up 2 days.

Friday.
The meeting has been moved back 2 days.
The meeting has been pushed back 2 days.

I know a lot of people don’t agree but all of those are the same thing to me which means Friday.

What if instead of “meeting” we changed it to “release date” and “days” was change to “months”. If it was a movie you were looking forward to see what would you rather hear?
The release date has been moved forward 2 months.
The release date has been pushed forward 2 months.
The release date has been moved up 2 months.
The release date has been pushed up 2 months.

vs.

The release date has been moved back 2 months.
The release date has been pushed back 2 months.

Push that over and that’s my perception. Same with my perception of a year.

Those are all the same too just because I have the context to know that movies just don’t magically appear two months early. The only one that is ambiguous is: "
The release date has been moved back 2 months."

About the word 'forward. Do you see,

A. Forward~sooner

or

B. Forward~later

To me forward is sooner. Forward is a movement that is not a delay.

I see moving forward as moving closer to the front. If I moved forward in a line, for example. Actually, the line example works for what I mean. Imagine if I drew up a timeline and told a person to place a marker on the day he thought I was born. If he place it on say, March 1, 1930, I’d tell him to move it forward. If he placed it on today, move it backward.

I am here now. When Friday happens, I’ll be there. If you say, “the meeting has been moved forward two days,” I’ll know you are mad, and I’ll ask “when will the meeting happen?” I might be there.

Time is a paper frog. It won’t croak, and it won’t jump, even if you wind it. Do you believe it will catch paper flies? How about fly paper?

To me, “moved forward” is Friday, but if you said “moved up”, it would mean Monday, even though technically “forward” and “up” should really give the same answer.

I see the dates in my head as M T W R F S S, and you go left to right. If I’m trying to figure out what day of the week a date will be on, I move in a clockwise fashion like it’s an oval (I suppose I go clockwise because hours move, well, clockwise). My friends/co-workers will laugh because I never go by math, I do this funny “eyes looking up with her index finger doing this odd 'poke, poke, poke, poke poke, swirl around in a half circle” thing when going through a complete week".

It looks like my mental week-circle is the opposite of ghardester’s (and it’s more of a skinny oval, like:

S … M … T … W … R … F … S
^…|
|…|

So imagine seeing that as your mental picture, and you’re moving your finger in the real world to “poke” each day from left to right, then swooping your finger down in the arrow pattern back to Sunday.

I’ll just say it’s a little eccentricity to balance out my brilliance. :wink:

I vote Friday, but I also say “forward” is a poor term to use for such a situation.

Think of it this way: It’s Wednesday and you go to the meeting room. There’s no meeting, but there is a time machine in the room. What direction in time would you go to get to the meeting if it happened on Monday? What about Friday?

(This is separate terminology from “moved up” and “pushed back,” which doesn’t make 100% sense, either, but it is conventional.)

For me, moved foward/up/etc. all mean “scheduled sooner” (i.e., per this example, I’m a Monday). Moved back means “scheduled later.”

ETA: Friday people who think Monday people are crazy, what’s your opinion of the word setback? By your terminology, shouldn’t it be a setforward? ZING.

Setback and setforward (if that’s a word) are spatial, not temporal. I can imagine leaning into the flow of time, like an ancient Pontiac hood ornament, but I’m pretty sure time doesn’t work that way. Are Monday people crazy? I’m a galoot, not a shrink. How should I know?!

No, not ZING!. The meaning is the same in the real world. Some of these time threads have been the most disturbing to me since I joined the SDMB 9 years ago. A professional person would get fired if they habitually interpreted things the way the Monday people do.

Monday people must think of time as a conveyor belt in front of them, with future events laid out on it, “moving forward” towards them. Whereas I, a Friday person, look at time as stationary strip of events, that I walk along.

To me, the past is behind me, the future is in front of me. If I got in a time machine, and decided to go back in time, I’d be moving into the past. Hence, moving an event “forward”, to me, means moving it into the future.

However, if someone says an event is going to be “pushed back”, I know they mean it will happen later, simply because I know that’s the most common usage of that phrase, even if it doesn’t really make sense from my perspective.

And yes, I’m very angry.

LOL!!! My college roommate and I damn near got in a physical altercation arguing over this same thing.

Monday. I’m still not clear on how “forward” can be interpreted to mean “later.”

You Monday people are strange. Two days forward, ahead, later… the head games with the words are pointless.

Starting: Wed
1 day forward, ahead, or later: Thur.
2 days forward, ahead, or later: Fri.
I cannot comprehend in the slightest how Monday comes about from this scenario.

“I’m still not clear on how “forward” can be interpreted to mean “later.””

In time, as we know it, you can only go forward, correct?

Oddly my mind’s eye vision of the week moves counter-clockwise Monday at top Friday at bottom, the hours of the day also move counter-clockwise with 6pm at top and 6am at bottom. Daytime hours to the right of the oval, night to the left.

But my vision of the year moves the other direction, clockwise, in the same sort of elipse/oval. Fall at top (Oct), Spring at bottom (June), the start and end of the year for me.

That’s how I’ve always envisioned day, week, year. Probably insane. :stuck_out_tongue:

I agree. There have been a few threads roughly similar to this over the years and it blows my mind. It is psychotic to answer Monday to be kind about it. Apparently, lots of Dopers and their family and friends have time machines in which case I want in on the action but otherwise it it simply batshit insanity. Do the people here have ever had an a job and needed to be at a certain place at a certain time? The rest is just bizarre intellectual masturbation and I would fire someone if they insisted on this premise.