2008/11/2 Thomas A. Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> But people would get used to it after a while, maybe a generation, and >> whose to say that the sun should come up at 7am, it's really just an >> arbitrary concept. > > > In his book "100 Days" (about the 1982 war in the Falklands), Admiral > Woodward points out that the British forces kept their clocks set to > Greenwich Time, and shifted their days to match. > > Which is to say that they still had breakfast right before dawn, but > the clock might have said 1000 hours, and dinner might have been > right after sunset (the Argentine Air Force being limited to daylight > operations), when the clock might have indicted 2200 hours. > > So the numbers on the clock were indeed considered arbitrary; they > still sync'd life to the sun (for obvious reasons). > > It was also helpful, in as much as the higher-ups back in the UK were > on Greenwich time, so Woodward could stay in sync with their comings > and goings. > > Interesting book, by the way.
My point exactly. 73, Steve -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD Omnium finis imminet _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
