Re: religious concerns
Markus Kuhn scripsit: http://www.sabbatarian.com/Dateline.html It seems, the true quarrel of this particular community is more with the Earth not being flat any more (as it obviously was when the Old Testament was written) ... That seems to me by no means a sound criticism. Given the writer of the above page's relative values, it is indeed sensible for him to urge that the International Date Line be moved to the meridian of Jerusalem, and there are no arguments against this except sheer convention. He does not appear to quite recognize that the IDL is a product of local decisions rather than international agreement, but this is excusable. He gets the more fundamental points correct: the existing IDL is purely conventional, the historical Sabbath is Saturday, the earth is round and rotates. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where no such knowledge exists. Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup, James Clark is as perennial as the grass. --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath
Re: religious concerns
On Sun 2003-07-13T09:17:11 +0100, Markus Kuhn hath writ: I haven't seen any proposal here so far that would turn day into night. TI without leaps turns day into night, and my point is that the agrarian masses of the world and their legislatures may not be beholden to the ITU messing around with the way their great grandchildren will tend their cows. Unfortunately, we don't really have any proposals. We have a lot of internally generated hypothetical scenarios based on vague hints from the SRG devoid of technical or social details and rationale. At this point I prefer to await the results of the IAU GA meetings of Division I and Commission 31, or some other new external input, before hypothecating much further. -- Steve Allen UCO/Lick Observatory Santa Cruz, CA 95064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +1 831 459 3046 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla PGP: 1024/E46978C5 F6 78 D1 10 62 94 8F 2E49 89 0E FE 26 B4 14 93
Re: religious concerns
Steve Allen wrote on 2003-07-12 00:56 UTC: On Fri 2003-07-11T12:11:10 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ: It may be that not a single religious sect anywhere on the globe will care about the secularization (pun intended) of the world's clocks. Profuse excuses begged for entering pedant mode, but I offer these folks as a likely counterexample http://www.sabbatarian.com/Dateline.html It seems, the true quarrel of this particular community is more with the Earth not being flat any more (as it obviously was when the Old Testament was written) ... http://www.flat-earth.org/ http://www.cca.org/woc/felfat/ Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__
