[_] 02:03:04 on 05/06/07
Mark Chitty
mark.chitty at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 14:24:12 BST 2007
Yes yes yes, I knew that, but getting up in the middle of the night to point that out is above my current commitment to being a geek. And given that they are all completely arbitrary frames of reference anyway, I chose to select a 12hr clock as it was more convenient to my pointing out a mildly interesting event. For this reason my arbitrary construct is better than all of yours and much more useful! ;o) m On 6/5/07, Chris Kaminski <chris at setmajer.com> wrote: > > > On 5 Jun 2007, at 13:39, Tom Gidden wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but a real geek would be observing the 24 hour clock, and > > would have stayed up last night for the _real_ 02:03:04. :( > > > > They'd also be working in UT/UTC/GMT rather than BST, so it'd be an > > hour out. > > Well, if you want to get *really* geeky about it, they'd probably > also be using international standard date format, so it'd be 02:03:04 > on 20070605, and not nearly so cute. :-) > > > ck > > > -- > underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk > -- Mark Chitty web: www.thisliquidspace.com email: mark.chitty at thisliquidspace.com mobile: 0777 3392821 skype: markchitty