ah, yes, how times have changed ;-)
BTW - my grandparents lived during that time ... I grew up listening
to the pros & cons ;-)
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
While we are wasting space on this topic, a computer was used in the
> USA for the 1890 Census. I don't think any of us go back that far ... And
> there is a Greek machine that seems to be used for computing that goes back
> to 2500 BC! That was a long time ago. Think that people of that time did
> not recognize the importance of it?
>
> --Dan
>
>
> anne-ology wrote:
>
>> you're so cute ...
>>
>> after all, those folks north of the northern snow belt - and south
>> of the southern -
>> don't seem to worry about the long days, long nights; they
>> still
>> stick to their schedule ;-)
>>
>> BTW - for those who are too young to remember pre-computing days,
>> the month would either be spelled out, or abbreviated;
>> still the most sensible system to my way of thinking ;-)
>>
>> Only with these computers, did some of these scientists decide
>> they
>> should add the hour, minute, second to the time format ...
>> GMT was the standard for centuries - Big Ben's still ticking
>> away, isn't it?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/25/2012 03:43 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Well, the same thing that's wrong with changing the clocks ...
>>>> ...
>>>> .... etc. etc. etc. ... ... ...
>>>>
>>>> /snip/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> This ISO is as strange as changing the time twice/year
>>>>
>>>> /snip
>>>
>>> You're right! We should just have daylight saving time all year long.
>>> Or if we want to change the clock twice a year, we should have
>>> DST in the winter and Double DST in the summer!
>>>
>>> --doug
>>>
>>>
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