[Craig] So I find it useful to set my watch 5 minutes fast to give me a buffer. But I'm under no illusion that the time on my watch is right.
[Arlo] You're kidding, right? I'm on the east coast, you're not(?)... which is the "right" time? The time on your watch only has value in its usefulness. And collectively we agree to parameters to define that usefulness and how to best apply it. "Time" is just a useful concept for us to organize our "day". There is no such things as the "right" time. If the GMT folk decided to 'add' fifteen minutes to the clock to realign us with so-and-so thing, then the time changes accordingly. We agree to it, but there is no "right" time. But in the parameter context you can use "right". If we are using a shared time system, and we agree to meet at "2pm" and I am late, and you say "I was here at the right time", then okay. But again, its about shared usefulness, nothing more. Even the idea that "noon" is when the equatorial sun is at its zenith is a shared social convention. It is not "right" that noon aligns with that event, it is "useful". Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
