[LINK] Telling the Time on the Internet

Bob Bain bobb@alt.net
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:20:09 +1100


On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:34:37 +1100, Tony Barry wrote:

>Set local time so that dawn is always at 5am. A clock set to sidereal 
>time, a GPS and a bit of spherical trigonometry will always give you 
>the local time wherever you are. Except if you inside the Arctic or 
>Antarctic circle of course but then you have a different attitude to 
>time there anyway.

 It's difficult on my mail reader to determine if the date "4/3/2000" is
April 3rd. 200 or the 4th. March 2000.....

 I suggest we worry about the cows and dawn once we have globalised date
formats :-)

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Bob Bain. Sydney Australia
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