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[_] 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
>
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