In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes: >On Mon 2005-01-24T00:50:10 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ: >> Isn't knowing when noon is already a specialist operation? >> I mean, most people could tell you when noon is to within >> an hour or two or three, but finer than that requires a far >> amount of daily mental calculation, no? > >Noon has long required a calendar, an almanac, a longitude, and the >ability to perform addition and subtraction.
You forget a lawyer or at least a copy of the relevant laws in your area, because surely you're not assuming that my watch runs on UTC ? -- 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.
