On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 02:36 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010 06:13:16 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"? > > "The present; the moment we're existing in." > > More profound: what does "time" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"?
Simple! "time" refers to the common labels (days, hours, etc) that we have attempted to put on the changing (or decaying) nature of our environment. ie. how many hours passed the rising of the sun. -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana!
