* Myriam Abramson wrote:
> Why does (encode-universal-time 0 0 0 1 1 1900) returns 18000 and not
> 0?
Because you're on the east coast somewhere and your timzone is 5 hours
west of GMT. You need (encode-universal-time 0 0 0 1 1 1900 0).
--tim
Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com> writes:
> * Myriam Abramson wrote:
>
> > Why does (encode-universal-time 0 0 0 1 1 1900) returns 18000 and not
> > 0?
>
> Because you're on the east coast somewhere and your timzone is 5 hours
> west of GMT. You need (encode-universal-time 0 0 0 1 1 1900 0).
>
Yep. A remnant of the British Empire, isn't it :) Now, if we only
could start measuring distances and volumes in MKS and move to A4.........
Cheers
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+ Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>:
| Yep. A remnant of the British Empire, isn't it :) Now, if we only
| could start measuring distances and volumes in MKS and move to A4.........
Oh no, please don't. I so much enjoy watching the reaction of
Americans when I casually use units like rods, chains and furlongs.
And how many know that an acre is actually a furlong chain? I sure
didn't, until I sat down and tried to figure it out.
But moving to A4 paper will be a good thing. It will provide lots of
work for your office furniture industry and do wonders for the economy.
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* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- Yes it works in practice - but does it work in theory?
OT OT OT OT
Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no> writes:
> + Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>:
>
> | Yep. A remnant of the British Empire, isn't it :) Now, if we only
> | could start measuring distances and volumes in MKS and move to A4.........
>
> Oh no, please don't. I so much enjoy watching the reaction of
> Americans when I casually use units like rods, chains and furlongs.
> And how many know that an acre is actually a furlong chain? I sure
> didn't, until I sat down and tried to figure it out.
Ok. Here is one for you: how many furloughs is a "pertica"? :)
Cheers
Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> OT OT OT OT
>
> Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no> writes:
>
> > + Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>:
> >
> > | Yep. A remnant of the British Empire, isn't it :) Now, if we
> > | only could start measuring distances and volumes in MKS and move
> > | to A4.........
> >
> > Oh no, please don't. I so much enjoy watching the reaction of
> > Americans when I casually use units like rods, chains and furlongs.
> > And how many know that an acre is actually a furlong chain? I sure
> > didn't, until I sat down and tried to figure it out.
>
> Ok. Here is one for you: how many furloughs is a "pertica"? :)
Isn't a pertica a perch (rod, pole)? Which would make it 5.5 yards. A
furlong is 1/8 mile, so that's 220 yards.
1/40 ?
Or did you really mean furloUGH, as you wrote it? In which case I give
up.
Jacek Generowicz <················@cern.ch> writes:
> Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
>
> > OT OT OT OT
> >
> > Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no> writes:
> >
> > > + Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>:
> > >
> > > | Yep. A remnant of the British Empire, isn't it :) Now, if we
> > > | only could start measuring distances and volumes in MKS and move
> > > | to A4.........
> > >
> > > Oh no, please don't. I so much enjoy watching the reaction of
> > > Americans when I casually use units like rods, chains and furlongs.
> > > And how many know that an acre is actually a furlong chain? I sure
> > > didn't, until I sat down and tried to figure it out.
> >
> > Ok. Here is one for you: how many furloughs is a "pertica"? :)
>
> Isn't a pertica a perch (rod, pole)? Which would make it 5.5 yards. A
> furlong is 1/8 mile, so that's 220 yards.
>
> 1/40 ?
>
> Or did you really mean furloUGH, as you wrote it? In which case I give
> up.
I don't know how to write "furlong/uogh" is :) But a "pertica" is 654
square meters :)
Cheers
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Marco Antoniotti ========================================================
NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488
719 Broadway 12th Floor fax +1 - 212 - 995 4122
New York, NY 10003, USA http://bioinformatics.cat.nyu.edu
"Hello New York! We'll do what we can!"
Bill Murray in `Ghostbusters'.