Poul-Henning Kamp scripsit:
> >By your logic, the U.S. Surgeon General should be a chiropractor.
>
> Once the US government tries to shoulder their national deficit
> that would undoubtedly be a good idea.
Chiropractors are by no means cheaper to hire than other doctors.
Nor are their treatments necessarily the worse because their theory
is crappy.
> Light of day and darkness of night already is, and for all relevant
> future can be, assured by governmental adjustments of the two functions
> government control in the formula:
>
> Civil Time(time) = UTC(time) +
> TimeZoneOffset(country, subdivision, time) +
> SeasonalOffset(country, subdivision, time)
Indeed. I did a quick look once at the number of secular changes to the
TimeZoneOffset function since the adoption of standard time in the
various countries; I may have posted the results here. If not,
I'll try to dig them up.
--
John Cowan cowan_at_ccil.org www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
There was an old man Said with a laugh, "I
From Peru, whose lim'ricks all Cut them in half, the pay is
Look'd like haiku. He Much better for two."
--Emmet O'Brien
Received on Sat Jan 07 2006 - 10:47:11 PST