Re: [BLUG] Linux Format issue 116 available for free

Baby steps, Ben. Baby steps. First UTC, then Unix time. Then we conquer
the world. :-D

Uh, and by that I mean bring about world peace. ;-)

I'm certainly *not* plotting global world domination. Not me. Heh heh. :-)

-Barry

ben lipkowitz wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Simón Ruiz wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Ben Shewmaker <ben@shewbox.org> wrote:
>>> Isn't UTC also called Zulu time by pilots? I have a relative who is
>>> a pilot
>>> and is always saying we should all just move to Zulu time.
>> And, with all the commotion that Daylight Savings Time changes cause,
>> I'm sure a proposal to move everyone to Zulu time would be a big hit
>> in political circles. ;-)
>
> Even better would be to move everyone to Unix time, or even better yet
> International Atomic Time, which doesn't have all that pesky leap
> second stuff. Then we just attach some large nuclear rockets to Mount
> Kilimanjaro and slow down the rate of Earth's rotation for a nice even
> metric day of 100000 seconds.
>
> -fenn
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