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From: Mike Barnes on 21 Feb 2010 05:04 Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com>: >Mike Barnes wrote: >> Adam Funk <a24061(a)ducksburg.com>: >> >From man 5 crontab: >> > >> > When specifying day of week, both day 0 and day 7 will be >> > considered Sunday. BSD and AT&T seem to disagree about this. >> >> But they presumably agree that day one is Monday. > >But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0 >= Sunday. Your humour bypass is showing. -- Mike Barnes Cheshire, England
From: Cheryl on 21 Feb 2010 06:42 Peter Moylan wrote: > Halmyre wrote: > >> I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it. > > The present system might sound complicated, but it's a consistently > reliable method - at least in Australia - for predicting the arrival of > the first really rainy weekend in the year. This ensures that all the > people who go camping for the long weekend will be rained out, year > after year. > The local equivalent is May 24th weekend, variously known as the Queen's Birthday, the 24th, Victoria Day etc. I think it's the opening of the trout season, or possibly that for some other fish, and an enormous number of people (not including me) go camping and fishing that long weekend, fortified by lots of beer and food. And it almost invariably rains. When it doesn't rain, it snows. I once moved house on the May 24th weekend with the help of some non-fishing friends, and we had freezing rain the whole time, which made going up and down the outside steps challenging. I should have known better. -- Cheryl
From: Athel Cornish-Bowden on 21 Feb 2010 07:52 On 2010-02-21 02:22:47 +0100, R H Draney <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> said: > Androcles filted: >> >> >> Fuckwit "R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> snipped >> in message news:hlp5d002463(a)drn.newsguy.com... >> >> <gracious courtesy returned> > > You're in America now...we snip in this country.... > > We also don't play games with followups....r Hi R.H. You might find it interesting to visit this site: http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/ImmortalFumbles.html#SpreadsheetLimit Given the cross-posting to sci.physics I think this must be the same Androcles. -- athel
From: jmfbahciv on 21 Feb 2010 08:13 Andrew Usher wrote: > Mike Barnes wrote: >> Adam Funk <a24061(a)ducksburg.com>: >> >From man 5 crontab: >>> When specifying day of week, both day 0 and day 7 will be >>> considered Sunday. BSD and AT&T seem to disagree about this. >> But they presumably agree that day one is Monday. > > But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0 > = Sunday. > Where do you get that idea? /BAH
From: Peter T. Daniels on 21 Feb 2010 08:27
On Feb 21, 12:20 am, Yusuf B Gursey <y...(a)theworld.com> wrote: > On Feb 19, 11:25 am, Mike Barnes <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: > > > > > > > John Atkinson <johna...(a)bigpond.com>: > > > >Halmyre wrote: > > > >> I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it. > > > >But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon! > > > A full-*ish* moon, actually. The definitions of the equinox and full > > moon used when determining Easter are rather different from the real > > definitions used by astronomers, which would actually give rise to > > different (perhaps several weeks different) Easter dates depending on > > one's longitude. > > > But I thought that for most people the whole point of Easter is that > > they get time off work. > > not in the US, at least not in my state. ? Time off? Offices aren't open on Sundays anyway, and retail stores haven't closed on holidays in years. |