In
<f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541717de3...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com>,
on 12/19/2011
at 01:47 PM, "Chase, John" <jch...@ussco.com> said:
>Why not specify the epoch origin as the "Big Bang"?
Because there are insurmountable theoretical difficulties in clock
synchronization and insurmountable practical difficulties in getting
an exact date for something billions of years in the past.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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