in support of
Marcus - nobody was discussing stuff at this level of detail.
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recall correctly the building at Greenwich is now just
a museum, with the RGO having been abolished.]
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. The world is used to time zones, after
all.
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, please?
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Thus plc||
Cambridge-Oxford rivalry deleted for brevity.]
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* approach requires constraining the behaviour of our descendants
600 years hence, just in different ways;
* Universal Time is a *really* stupid name for a time scale based on
the variable rotations of one small piece of rock.
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, a
15 second accuracy (I'd have to dig out various technical papers to be
sure).
In the US I belive something is antique when it is 25 years old,
in Europe I think it has to be 50 years old to gain the distinction.
100 years.
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Time, therefore it's subject to DST.
I wonder if it mishandles zones near the equator which don't have DST?
Neither are to do with the *definition* of civil time [1], but with its
name.
[1] Microsoft has been known to get this wrong as well, attempting to apply
US rules to the EU.
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when it works. Not when there are irreconcilable differences in
the general requirements and objectives.
What is needed is civil time to continue to reflect solar time as it
has since literally the dawn of time.
Within a couple of hours plus or minus.
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Summer Time.
Microsoft *spit* Outlook calendar management talks about GMT Daylight
Savings Time or some such idiocy. Every spring I respond to the first
appointment request from my boss with so do you want to meet at 10:00 GMT
or 10:00 BST?.
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to force their suppliers and sub-contractors inside the
boundary than to deal with stuff coming in. In other words, it's easier to
only buy widgets from ISO 9000 compliant suppliers than to provide an
inbound widget quality test department.
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M. Warner Losh said:
* A second is represented by an integer from 0 to 61;
[...]
but this specification
follows the date and time conventions for ISO C.
Of course, ISO C fixed this misunderstanding many years ago.
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notion and I belive the welch are not too happy either.
Not if you call them that!
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noon is between about 08:00 and 16:00, most
people won't care.
For unless they see the sky,
But they can't, and that is why
They know not if it's dark outside or light.
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redefine the length of the day without changing the
length of the second? Answer: by changing the number of seconds in
the day. I won't belabor the difficulty of selling the idea of
having different hours of different lengths.
You mean just like now?
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that we're seeing an hourly shift
every year, people are going to have to divorce second from day, or at
least re-negotiate the terms of engagement.
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I wrote:
Right now, the DTAI(TAI) function is the sum of a set of Kroneker delta
functions.
Thanks to David for quietly pointing out that I meant Heaviside step
functions, not Kroneker delta functions.
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that I still
suffer from web-forms that insist I enter a USA style phone number
when I have entered Denmark as country, this is a far moure
daunting task than it might appear.
Amen.
[I happen to have a US Social Security number, which allows me to confuse
some web pages back.]
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Neal McBurnett said:
UT1:Flamsteads birthday ?
Cute. 1646-08-19
O.S. or N.S.?
At least it wasn't January, which would have added a third option.
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And the English of 1000 years ago is still an official language of the
Netherlands (under the name Frisian).
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Steve Allen said:
The official time of the US for commerce and legal purposes is UTC(NIST).
The official time of the US DOD is UTC(USNO).
The official time of the Federal Republic of Germany is UTC(PTB).
etc.
The official time of the UK is GMT.
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to
reinforce it).
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to a
system of two sleep-wake cycles per day.
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two different Julian calendars in use: the
day and month enumeration matched, but year numbers changed at different
dates (1st January in Scotland, 25th March in England and Wales).
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didn't touch the sequence of days of the week.
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week was, but before then the Romans had a rigid *eight*
day week.
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THUS
tradtion.
The 25th March is one of the four Quarter Days in England, when
traditionally quarterly rents were paid. In Scotland 1st January is a
Quarter Day.
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;
In other words, all financial matters are to be done by day count and not
by calendar date.
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themselves
on over a 33-day period in Mammoth Cave back in 1938.
No, I think it's just that my memory has converted 24.7 into 27.
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inserted (I think) after February;
- Julius created a single 15 month year as a one-off adjustment to bring
calendar back in line with the sun.
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with the
true story as revealed by Vandemar (sp?).
For example, the official story is that Diaspar was the centre of a human
interstellar empire, while the true story is that man was part of a
multi-species federation.
It's these two stories that differ in what happened to the moon.
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that makes it particularly natural to
divide it into 360 parts?
Not really.
Personally, I like the mil: 6400 mils in a circle, and a mil is close
enough to a milliradian that you can use the usual tricks (a mil subtends
about a metre at a kilometre).
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be possible to add
and subtract times and intervals (e.g. what time is 14 months and 87 days
from now?).
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be better than 4.
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not appear in every packet.
Phew.
I'd also modify Feather encoding to delta backwards from the
expiration time stamp.
Interesting idea.
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