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Re: Time Woes [message #30554 is a reply to message #30471]

Thu, 02 May 2002 08:34

Struan Gray
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Registered: December 1995

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David Fanning, david@dfanning.com writes:

> it suddenly occurred to me that I was earning
> less as an IDL programmer than I was earning as a tennis
> coach. The idea of explaining *that* to my wife left me
> in a cold sweat.

It can help to talk. When I was once complaining about IDL time
functions my wife gave me the old Monty Python "you were looky..."
rant. She deals with time series in the sixteenth century. The year
number changes on different dates in different countries. Within the
same country it can change on different dates for different types of
record, and the different levels and types of law court all used
different days too. Best of all, the switch to the Gregorian calender
was in mid-swing, so weeks and days disappear whilly nilly from
various months of the year, and at different times in all the
different countries, palatinates and free republican cities. The
Swedes - bless 'em - not only made the switch last, they spread it
over several years, catching up one day at a time.

Compared to that, a relativistic correction for the orbital
velocity of a satellite is child's play.

Struan

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		Time Woes By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 May 2002 12:41
		Re: Time Woes By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 02 May 2002 15:26
		Re: Time Woes By: thompson on Thu, 02 May 2002 14:51
		Re: Time Woes By: btupper on Thu, 09 May 2002 07:21
		CDF_EPOCH (was Re: Time Woes) By: Brian Jackel on Thu, 02 May 2002 12:05
		Re: Time Woes By: Struan Gray on Thu, 02 May 2002 08:34
		Re: Time Woes By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 May 2002 06:38
		Re: Time Woes By: btupper on Thu, 02 May 2002 06:11
		Re: Time Woes By: Ken Mankoff on Thu, 02 May 2002 06:07
		Re: Time Woes By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 01 May 2002 14:24
		Re: Time Woes By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 May 2002 14:00
		Re: Time Woes By: Robert Stockwell on Mon, 06 May 2002 06:14
		Re: Time Woes By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 01 May 2002 13:10

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