Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regarding Franks mention of simple folks cry of give us back our 11
days Well I would be pretty riled too if the rent was due 11 days
early as I'm sure evil land lords would have used the change in the
calender as a good excuse to ring money from
Article about long-term time keeping. AKA Y10K - It's some pretty neat
reading:
http://cgi.newsweek.com/cgi-bin/nwframe?url=http://newsweek.washingtonpost
.com/nw-srv/issue/05_99a/printed/int/socu/ty0105_1.htm
Be careful because the URL might wrap on your computer. Anyway,
you can
Dear Dialists...
Regarding the assertion by David Higgon that the Earth makes a better clock
than the frequency of an arbitrarily chosen atom. Unfortunately Earth's
rotation is slowing down, so the atom is preferable, though admittedly less
romantic. Presumably, if the human timekeepers
Dear John,
That's an excellent point, but of course time is used for more than determing
when the sun will be visible. A sundial is actually a poor indicator even of
what it does best, as the time of sunset varies by as much as 6 hours from
solstice to solstice (here in Michigan). So really
Some of the recent postings on GMT and UTC contain inaccuracies and
half-truths. It was to set the record straight that I wrote the article on GMT
and UTC in the first place. It's enough to drive a professor to drink (feel
free to send some 18 yr. Macallan single malt!). For those who haven't
My understanding of the Riots in the Streets syndrome (on
the conversion from Julian to Gregorian in the UK), was as
follows:-
Pre the change, the UK new year started on 25th March -
Annuncation day (exactly 9 months before the birth on 25th
December). Taxes were then paid at the end of the
To Malcolm Purves and all list members,
My apologies if I misinformed when I repeated that theory of
French vs English translation as explanation for why UTC, not
CUT. The version I offered was as told to me some years ago
by a Canadian physicist acquaintance. It never occurred to
me that
