Re: leap seconds in art

2006-06-24 Thread Peter Bunclark 
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Joe Fitzgerald wrote:

> Steve Allen wrote:
> > Artist Felicity Hickson created a documentary of 23 people speaking
> > for 23 seconds each.
>
> Did any of them start talking at 23:59:37 31 December 2005 UTC?  If so,
> how long did they end up talking?

The duration was timed in SI seconds, of course, rather than attempting
the error-prone process of subtracting two calendar dates.
>
> -Joe Fitzgerald
>

Pete.

Re: leap seconds in art

2006-06-23 Thread Rob Seaman 

Joe Fitzgerald wrote:


Did any of them start talking at 23:59:37 31 December 2005 UTC?  If
so, how long did they end up talking?


One might observe that it is hard to get us to stop talking at any time.

Rob

Re: leap seconds in art

2006-06-23 Thread Joe Fitzgerald 

Steve Allen wrote:

Artist Felicity Hickson created a documentary of 23 people speaking
for 23 seconds each.


Did any of them start talking at 23:59:37 31 December 2005 UTC?  If so,
how long did they end up talking?

-Joe Fitzgerald