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But I'm still lost in time...
I mean, GMT+13 hours is a valid timezone, and it's the one I'm in right now... just can't select it as a user option, is all.
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On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Originally posted by Weedpacket I mean, GMT+13 hours is a valid timezone, and it's the one I'm in right now... just can't select it as a user option, is all.
Whoa!! How's it feel to live on the edge of time??
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Originally posted by jstarkey Whoa!! How's it feel to live on the edge of time??
Um... I celebrate New Year's before anyone else? I mean, as I write this, it's already December 10...
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On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Originally posted by jstarkey I'm sorry for the delay.
I misunderstood the question the first time around.
You're in +13, which would be -11 hours, right?
Nope, +13; -11 would be same time yesterday.
Merry Christmas (first post of Christmas day, posted (by my clock, and NIST agrees with me): 2002-12-25 00:00:19!
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On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Full marks.
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On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Originally posted by planetsim Do i win a prize then...
Given what I had for dinner I think the best prize would be that I don't breathe on you. How's that?
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On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Whoa, calm down Mr. You're going to hurt someone with that breath!!
Is setting your clock ahead putting you in the historically correct time? Or is setting it back doing so?
If by "historically correct" you mean NZST, that's GMT+12 (strictly speaking, UTC+12, but the difference is never more than a second); thing is, right now I'm on Daylight Saving, which is GMT+13. So when it's 1 AM on New Years' Day in Greenwich, it's already 2 PM here.
(Of course, Greenwich Mean Time is not to be confused with the local time in Greenwich, since England has Daylight Saving, too).
The upshot of this is that whenever I see that a post was made at a certain time (according to the forum) I have to mentally add one hour to find out whe it was really made. Maybe I'm lazy, but if I wanted to do that I'd just stick with GMT to begin with. Besides, its inelegant to have all these different timezones and manage to miss one out.
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On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Last edited by Weedpacket; 12-26-2002 at 02:16 AM.
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Okay, it's just that all the clocks around here are saying it's quarter past three in the afternoon, but this site says that "the time now is 02:18 PM."
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On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Originally posted by Weedpacket Okay, it's just that all the clocks around here are saying it's quarter past three in the afternoon, but this site says that "the time now is 02:18 PM."
Oooooohhhhh, it's not the timezone, you want a board that figures in the time changes per country.
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