"Ben A L Jemmett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [...]
> You've arbitrarily decided. That's as opposed to everyone else who's
> logically concluded. Furrfu.
Logically? I travelled recently to Portland, Oregon (NW USA) from Phoenix,
Arizona (SW USA) shortly after the last shift to daylight savings time.
Since Arizona (wisely) has chosen to ignore this nonsense, it's always fun
synchronizing meetings when travelling. While there, I met a fellow from
Bhopal, India who was trying to calculate the time difference between
Portland and Bhopal. We started discussing how ridiculous the whole concept
of "timezones" is, and what an inconvenience it is. Any arbitrary global (if
not universal) "time" reference would work. 0100 should be 0100 everywhere.
I might wake up at 1300 to go to work, but so what? Why are we insisting on
sticking to an antiquated timebase intended to help early farmers which has
become totally out of sync with today's reality anyhow?
We then moved on to how absolutely insane it will be to try to keep earth
time during space travel with no daylight references at all.
So when you start to spout claims of "logic", please don't insult the rest
of the universe by insisting on referencing everything from a terrestial
point of view. BOTH sides of this stupid debate are known to be wrong as the
"event" the whole concept is based on didn't actually happen in either year
zero OR year one. At best, both are off by a half dozen years. So let's just
GET OVER this. 2000 is kind of fun. Some people are enjoying celebrating. It
doesn't really CHANGE ANYTHING. Nobody's the wiser for "winning" either side
of this discussion.
I'd be a lot more understanding if half this group didn't apparently wait
until January 1st to actually see what would happen when their CMOS clock
turned over. Sheesh!
> > And we don't give sh*t about your math rules!
> It's not a math rule. It's how the system *works*.
Argh! What SYSTEM? Good God, the whole thing is a joke anyhow. Why get all
scientific over a wild-ass guess made hundreds of years ago?
Let it REST folks. There are more important things. Hold your party next
year and don't invite me.
Thanks,
- Bob
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