Correct way to write 24 hour-time? Decimalpoint too.

On Sat, 27 May 2006 18:25:02 +0100, Alex Coleman
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As this forum is accessed by computer then I wanted to be clear that
wideley used Unix or Microsoft time formats (however standard in
computing) are not relevant here.

Huh? They utilize the same standards.

On Tue, 30 May 2006 14:30:35 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 10:15:53 -0400) it happened krw
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 15:32:35 +0200) it happened Charles D. Bohne
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On Tue, 30 May 2006 09:17:21 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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Wel, i did some introspection, as European, if in the Netherlands at
say 16:48h somebody askes you 'what time is it' (in Dutch: Weet U ook
hoe laat het is?), I would reply with '12 voor 5' (12 to five).
Because of the context people usually KNOW if it is morning or evening.

Maybe - but you wouldn't do that on the phone with someone calling from
"het buitenland" :-)

C.

We should all change to UTC 24h clock.
And drop the anual time shifts for summer and winter time.
You would get used to it fast.....

...and throw away 6B biological clocks?

Earth is only so big.

Bit it's sooo round and only half of it lit up.

Yes that is the problem, I have a little program 'kworldwatch' (Linux)
that displays a worldmap and shows where it is still light.
A watch with a function like that (when all is UTC) would make sense.

Celestia.

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On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:00:23 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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You have not travelled a lot right?
I have, and opining times, special holidays, local ways of doing things
differ a LOT all over the world.
And if you have a problem with day and night, there is this big nuclear
powered indicator light in the sky.


Cellphones ALWAYS set their time to the local cell node they are
logged onto.

On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:44:14 GMT) it happened Roy L. Fuchs
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Earth is only so big.

Bit it's sooo round and only half of it lit up.

Yes that is the problem, I have a little program 'kworldwatch' (Linux)
that displays a worldmap and shows where it is still light.
A watch with a function like that (when all is UTC) would make sense.

Celestia.

I just downloaded that Celestia (was that program you were referring to?),
and it actually installed!!!!
Now I hope it did not f*ck up my configs as some other prog did...
Anyways, ran the demo, and got a bit of Antares sunburn.....

Now to run the sys checks (also running servers on this box).

kworldwatch is smaller, faster, simpler, and I still have not got
the night-day world map in Celestia.

Do you know about 'xephem'? Now that is REAL stuff.
http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html
Use it quite often actually.