Brian Garrett wrote:
> I'm still intersted in finding out about UT1 (or UT2)
> being the basis of civil time; I thought we in the U.S., atavistic though we
> may be about switching to SI units, were at least on track with the rest of
> the world by making UTC the legal basis of civil time.
There w
Markus Kuhn said:
>>> Many wills and living trusts these days are written to provide
>>> for concurrent death events of both spouses, even to the point of
>>> defining concurrent to be within 30 hours of each other.
> I wonder where the 30 hours come from. Is is something like 24 h plus
> the time
Peter Bunclark wrote on 2003-06-09 07:15 UTC:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Kevin J. Rowett wrote:
> > Many wills and living trusts these days are written to provide
> > for concurrent death events of both spouses, even to the point of
> > defining concurrent to be within 30 hours of each other.
I wonder
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Kevin J. Rowett wrote:
> Many wills and living trusts these days are written to provide
> for concurrent death events of both spouses, even to the point of
> defining concurrent to be within 30 hours of each other.
>
> KR
So move the deaths exactly (exactly?!!!) 30 hours apart
> Seriously, these are,uh, interesting scenarios,
...that are very similar to actual lawsuits that were filed in the
nineteenth century over the corresponding ambiguity between apparent
solar time and mean solar time or between local time and standard
(zone) time. Wherever there is a contract the
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Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] timestamps on death certificates
> Many wills and living trusts these days are written to provide
> for con
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On Fri 2003-06-06T07:37:57 +0100, Peter Bunclark hath writ:
> A husband has a will leaving everything to his wife, or if she dies first,
> to their children. The wife has
On Fri 2003-06-06T07:37:57 +0100, Peter Bunclark hath writ:
> A husband has a will leaving everything to his wife, or if she dies first,
> to their children. The wife has a will leaving everything to her secret
> lover. They are together in a car crash, and are put on life-support
> systems includ
Markus Kuhn wrote:
> ... Anyone who ever attended a birth
Haven't we all attended at least one?
I don't remember much of mine though Salvador Dali claimed to
remember being in the womb.
Markus Kuhn said:
> Humans stay perfectly concious and altert up to about
> 12-15 seconds after the last heartbeat (even after decapitation, as
> Voltaire demonstrated during the French revolution so elegantly in his
> famous very last scientific experiment),
Voltaire died of old age in 1778.
I t
s significatly longer than 1000 ms.
I seriously doubt that the authors of the US regulations for timestamps
on death certificates even understand the difference between GMT, UT1
and UTC, neither have they any practical need to do so.
Markus
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