At 09:36 -0500 2009/01/05, Brian Schott wrote: >Don, first thanks for moving to chat. >
Agree. As I posted it I realized that didn't convey the joke as Albert intended it. He actually said with emphatic pronunciation, "Now it shows side ... REAL time!" Meaning, of course, local PDT. The multiple play on words was appreciated in the office because Paul Berry was doing a lot of work with starmap, an APL application for drawing a star map given latitude, longitude, and time -- on a typewriter terminal... Also in the office, Eugene McDonnell contributed a lot of work over the years on interval and calendar calculations. The amusement was genuine. As for wikipedia, that's a word??? I'm quite certain it doesn't appear in the reference that Eugene always cited for his date and time work - his treasured copy of the 21 volume 8th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica which he had received from IBM colleagues as a going away gift. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
