On Thu, 14 May 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: >> Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=2500 >> >> ============================== CFJ 2500 ============================== >> >> A player who does not deregister in the interval becomes a >> Senator exactly 1440 (60 * 24) hours after e registers. > > Gratuitous arguments: I'd argue for FALSE based on Goethe's evidence. > The phrase "continuously for the immediately preceding sixty days" > seems to refer to each day as an epochal entity, as distinct from > "within 7 days" which reads more naturally as a time span consisting > of 7 24 hour periods as measured from the specified event. I believe > referring to "days" vs. "Agoran days" is a red herring; certainly game > custom is that a high priority officer doesn't violate the rules by > publishing eir report on Monday of one week and then on Tuesday of the > next week, even though there's a "week" in the non-epoch sense during > which no report was published.
Indeed, by the old R459, the phrase "the preceding 60 days" is phrased as an independent entity (e.g. the 60 Agoran days) while "for 60 days prior" would be a span (60 24-hour intervals). -Goethe
