In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >Here's an amusing discussion of GIS techniques applied to Santa's >route selection: > > http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.93.html#subj7 > >Somehow this just seems pertinent to our discussion of the willy-nilly >timezone algorithm applied to civil (or uncivil) timekeeping. For >instance, Santa is advised to fly from East to West such that >Christmas Eve lasts two days (whatever a "day" means), not one. > >Should the Right Jolly Old Elf sort his deliveries by UTC or local >timezones?
Well, given that he delivers at midnight, you have to admit that he wouldn't benefit in any way from using your pet: solar time :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
