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Most leaders preach punctuality and meetings do start on time.  However because lds people are busy many are known to be punctuality impaired. Culturally because it happens to mormons quite a bit being a half hour to forty five minutes or more late to things they expect to be at a joke is running on mormon standard time.
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Most leaders preach punctuality and meetings generally do start on time.  However, because [[LDS]] people are busy, many are known to be punctuality impaired. Culturally, this tendency towards tardiness has come to be known as ''Mormon Standard Time'', a term which is somewhat ridiculously similar to Mountain Standard Time, which is the standard time of [[Utah]]. Mormon Standard Time does not have an exact meaning, but nevertheless, is sometimes taken to mean 15 or 30 minutes after the nominal start time of an event (often a church social, or similar activity).
 
 
Being punctual is important however for nonchurch meetings and events many mormons seem to be there a lot later than they say they will or after event starts.  Thus the term mormon standard time has been coined.
 

Revision as of 10:48, 7 August 2007

Most leaders preach punctuality and meetings generally do start on time. However, because LDS people are busy, many are known to be punctuality impaired. Culturally, this tendency towards tardiness has come to be known as Mormon Standard Time, a term which is somewhat ridiculously similar to Mountain Standard Time, which is the standard time of Utah. Mormon Standard Time does not have an exact meaning, but nevertheless, is sometimes taken to mean 15 or 30 minutes after the nominal start time of an event (often a church social, or similar activity).