On Fri 2006-12-29T09:25:33 +, Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
> Why is this challenging? It's whichever of 23 to 29 November (inclusive) is
> a Friday.
Yes, and without bothering to patch a version of the old Tcl/Tk ical
well enough to run on what I have here, I believe that is pretty much
the w
On 2006-12-09, Clive D.W. Feather challenged, and I couldn't resist:
> For something more challenging, try the 8 Bank Holidays in England:
>
> ...
> (8) Second weekday after 24th December.
second weekday after 24th December in Gregorian year( Y )
= Gregorian calendar( Y, December,
Rob Seaman scripsit:
> "Seems like"? "Chances are"? Pick some other random technical issue -
> say, automobile airbags, standardized educational testing, the lead
> content of pigment in children's crayons, and so forth and so on.
> Would "seems like" and "chances are" be phrases you would want
At 2006-12-29 09:25 +, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
[*] Except, if memory serves, in one recent year when it was moved
to the first Monday in June.
2002-06-04, though it was a Tuesday. The day before was an extra Bank
Holiday.
http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/bank-publi
Tony Finch wrote:
You need to do so in order to implement an accurate clock, since
the clock produces interval time and you need a way to convert its
output to time of day.
As Steve Allen has pointed out, it is in the nature of a clock to be
reset on occasion. What is NTP but a mechanism for
Steve Allen said:
> One of the most challenging Gregorian calender problems is the date
> of the day after Thanksgiving in the US. Thanksgiving is the 4th
> Thursday in November. The day after is a Friday, but it is not
> necessarily the 4th Friday.
Why is this challenging? It's whichever of 23
On Thu 2006-12-28T18:31:43 -0700, M. Warner Losh hath writ:
> Let's turn the question around. What would the harm be if |DUT1| were
> 1.1s? 1.5s? 2.0s? Contrast this with the harm and difficulty that
> the current 6 month scheduling window affords.
I have previously indicated that I believe th
On Fri 2006-12-29T07:43:56 +, Tony Finch hath writ:
> Astronomers still count Julian
> years (365.25 days instead of exact years) when dealing with long MJD
> intervals.
Such intervals are almost always expressed in the IAU's time scale of
Terrestrial Time (TT) which is taken to be a more unif
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Rob Seaman wrote:
>
> Folks keep fretting here about retrieving lists of leap seconds
> autonomously, although no specific use case is proffered about why
> one needs to use UTC to measure intervals across various and sundry
> leap second events.
You need to do so in order to
