begin quoting kelsey hudson as of Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:45:10PM -0800: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >Such as, my kids bedtime would be two hours after sunset, which could > >be spoken as two after set, or simply two set. > > > >Speak of o'clock, and it is absolute. Speak of rise/noon/set/mid and it > >is relative to a fixed local time. I believe it would work out rather > >well. > > Except, sunrise, sunset, and mid-day are all relative; that is, sunrise > this morning may be a few seconds later than yesterday's sunrise. The > same holds true for sunset. Throughout the year, the length of the day > changes, so mid-day is also arbitrary.
Um, no, not really. It's not a fixed amount of time after sunrise or sunset, but midday is pretty much well-defined. Except, perhaps, in parts of Alaska, Canada, Russia, and Antartica. -- "We're going on vacation three days after sunset." Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
