On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:48:56 -0600, Joel C. Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 02/13/2013 06:09 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
>Astronomers are a perverse lot for choosing an epoch origin at noon
>rather than midnight, which makes their concept of "same day" different
>from normal discourse.

Ah, but they don't want the date to change in the middle of their day 
(heueue... night, that is, because that is when they are watching the sky...)

Cheers,

Jantje.

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