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From: Cheryl on 23 Feb 2010 06:31 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > On Feb 22, 10:55 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:37:43 +0800, Robert Bannister >> <robb...(a)bigpond.com> wrote in >> <news:7ugpr7Fll6U1(a)mid.individual.net> in >> sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: >> >>> Brian M. Scott wrote: >>>> R H Draney wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>> If you want a crank, find the person who came up with >>>>> Daylight Saving Time.... >>>>> Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply >>>>> for more of the year than "Standard" time....r >>>> I like DST; my only objection is that we don't have it all >>>> year round. >>> I think you should go and live in Inverness until you >>> change your mind. >> I can't imagine why you think that I'd change my mind. As >> far as I'm concerned, DST has no disadvantages at any time >> of year in any climate at any latitude. In winter at higher >> latitudes its advantages are minimal, but it still has no >> disadvantages. I couldn't care less how dark it is in the >> morning; it's in the afternoon and evening that I want the >> benefit of as much daylight as possible. > > The point is that the kiddies shouldn't go off to school in the dark. But they do, anyway. Well, depending on where you live, they might. People in Labrador really complained when we had double daylight savings time because of the worry of having the kids go to school in the dark over such an extended period. You get far enough north, you're going to get people going to school or work in the dark anyway, but some of them don't like doing it for any longer than absolutely necessary. Personally, as someone who goes to work and home again in the dark during part of the year, doing so slightly longer because of DST (or DDST) didn't bother me in the least, but I liked seeing the sunlight after work a bit earlier than usual. -- Cheryl
From: Chuck Riggs on 23 Feb 2010 06:32 On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:05:52 -0000, jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >In sci.physics Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Peter Moylan wrote: >>> Andrew Usher wrote: >>> >>> > I chose the Christian holidays because they are international, >>> >>> ??? >> >> They're more so than any other holidays, are they not? >> >> Andrew Usher > >Nope, New Years is celebrated by almost all countries and cultures. Except for the most populous country in the world, along with a few others, you're probably right, assuming we're talking about the same date for the celebration. -- Regards, Chuck Riggs, An American who lives near Dublin, Ireland and usually spells in BrE
From: António Marques on 23 Feb 2010 06:40 Peter T. Daniels wrote (23-02-2010 04:32): > On Feb 22, 10:55 pm, "Brian M. Scott"<b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:37:43 +0800, Robert Bannister >> <robb...(a)bigpond.com> wrote in >> <news:7ugpr7Fll6U1(a)mid.individual.net> in >> sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: >> >>> Brian M. Scott wrote: >>>> R H Draney wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>> If you want a crank, find the person who came up with >>>>> Daylight Saving Time.... >>>>> Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply >>>>> for more of the year than "Standard" time....r >>>> I like DST; my only objection is that we don't have it all >>>> year round. >>> I think you should go and live in Inverness until you >>> change your mind. >> >> I can't imagine why you think that I'd change my mind. As >> far as I'm concerned, DST has no disadvantages at any time >> of year in any climate at any latitude. In winter at higher >> latitudes its advantages are minimal, but it still has no >> disadvantages. I couldn't care less how dark it is in the >> morning; it's in the afternoon and evening that I want the >> benefit of as much daylight as possible. > > The point is that the kiddies shouldn't go off to school in the dark. But the fact is that they do all the same.
From: Adam Funk on 23 Feb 2010 06:39 On 2010-02-23, Andrew Usher wrote: >> > The Catholic Church has stated, I believe more than once (it's linked >> > to somewhere in this thread) that fixing Easter to a particular week >> > would be acceptable. ("Catholic" is a commonly used but imprecise abbreviation of "Roman Catholic".) > Peter T. Daniels wrote: >> "The Catholic Church" (which refers to no specific organization) >> hasn't spoken for all of Christendom for nearly half a millennium. > > 'The Catholic Church' or simply 'The Church' refers to exactly one > organisation. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Also, it's been > longer than half a millennium if one includes the East. The "Roman Catholic Church", the "Old Catholic Church", and the "Polish National Catholic Church" are independent of each other. The "Eastern Catholic Churches" are under papal authority but I don't think they describe themselves as "Roman Catholic". -- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. [Robert R. Coveyou]
From: jmfbahciv on 23 Feb 2010 07:16
J. Clarke wrote: > On 2/22/2010 9:46 AM, jmfbahciv wrote: >> Mike Barnes wrote: >>> Ant�nio Marques <entonio(a)gmail.com>: >>>> On Feb 21, 1:09 am, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>> Mike Barnes wrote: >>>>>> Adam Funk <a24...(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. >>>> Ahem. In low level, pointer oriented languages such as C and its >>>> family. And those who chose to imitate it. >>> >>> But not in the first language I used when working for a living (COBOL). >>> >> Nor FORTRAN DO statements. Most people start at 1. You can also >> write an off-by-1 bug in loops depending on whether you start the loop >> with 0 or 1. > > And in C and most C-derived languages those off-by-1 bugs abound. I've > never done a formal count but I suspect that half the patches Microsoft > has issued for Windows fix off-by-1 bugs. > > Memory management is not for the faint of heart. /BAH |