> At least you got the annoying AM/PM problem fixed where it counts and > just use the 24hr scale. There are still some holdouts though... Like the date of 11/10/12.. <- who outside the US knows FOR SURE what day it is supposed to represent? Timezones are my favourite (not unique to the US/UK though) one. If you wonder who owns getridoftimezones.org (without content yet) you guessed it right ;-) From: William Levak wlevak@sdf.org > Time zones were invented by the railroads to eliminate confusion. Not to create/add-to it? Really? ;-) > Prior to that, noon was when the sun was directly overhead wherever you > were. Or at its highest point. And midnight half the time between the sunset and sunrise. Quite logical. > That was OK if you were a farmer, but the railroads could not even > make a simple schedule because everyone was on a different time. Well. And now the whole world now has to deal with the confusion and error-proneness resulting from their lack of vision. -- SD! P. S. Trying to shut up now.. hard for me as this units and time mess is what I loathe passionately but still - trying harder now :-) Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-04-22 20:02:44
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