v for frequency?...

[rbowman]

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:00:15 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

When programming I use ISO-8601 conventions although there are several
flavors. yyyy-mm-dd.

What flavours?

The time can be Zulu, Zulu with an offset, or local. Zulu with an offset
is the most useful.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:03:34 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:

Am 30.03.23 um 15:33 schrieb Commander Kinsey:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:32:06 -0000, NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

I just use f.

I\'ve never heard of nu (italic v) being used for frequency in all my
O-level, A-level and university electronic engineering studies. Only f or
omega, where omega = 2 pi f

omega is called angular frequency.

Same here.

Then you never met Mr. Planck, Einstein, Bohr etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_relation

That\'s E=hf in Scots universities.

> And it\'s a nu, not a v.

Too similar with bad handwriting.

And, being an elec eng, I use j (rather than i) to denote sqrt(-1),
since i
tends to be used to denote instantaneous current.

I was taught i in Maths, then changed to j for electronics. Stupid
Maths teachers.

Imagine the confusion in an area where i is already used for current.

It is here. But I think it\'s a capital I.

 

[Peeler]

On 8 Apr 2023 00:01:14 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

The time can be Zulu, Zulu with an offset, or local. Zulu with an offset
is the most useful.

How can there be so much shit in one senile head, you endlessly bullshitting
senile shithead? Or does the shit all reside in your big mouth?

--
Yet another thrilling account from the resident senile superhero\'s senile
life:
\"I went to a Driveby Truckers concert at a local venue and they made me
leave my knife in the car. Never went back. Come to think of it the Truckers
had a Black Lives Matter banner. Never bought any of their music again
either.\"
MID: <k84ip9Fesb1U1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:57:12 +0100, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:38:04 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:45:11 -0000, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-22, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 22/03/2023 13:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 21/03/2023 23:24, NY wrote:

Fahrenheit always struck me as a bodged job (like so much of the
imperial system) - it was a case of \"what\'s the coldest and the
hottest temperatures we can create in the lab today? Right, let\'s call
the coldest one 0 and the hottest one 100. Oh, that makes ice freeze
at 32 and water boil at 212.\" At least Celsius makes the freezing and
boiling point of the earth\'s most common liquid nice round numbers 0
and 100.

AIUI It was \'the hottest and coldest temperatures recorded in Paris\' or
somesuch

0 Fahrenheit is the freezing point of saturated brine; 100 F was Mr
Fahrenheit\'s \"blood heat\" (body core temperature); he had a fever at the
time.

\"Degrees of frost\" is an odd one: it\'s the number of Fahrenheit degrees
below 32 (freezing points). Do people use that in the US?

I\'ve never heard of it. Seems like it\'s for people who are
uncomfortable with negative numbers.

My neighbour\'s wife (an accountant!) can\'t do negative numbers. She couldn\'t understand a £30 discount on fibre broadband bill number one, and a £60 installation charge on bill number two. She actually thought they\'d not given her 50% off. Took me 10 minutes to not succeed in explaining it to her. Eventually her (dyslexic) husband said \"I think Peter\'s right....\"

The implication being that she is very stupid, which is quite unlikely
to be true.

I know it to be true. She\'s dopey in many ways.

Accounting is applied algebra, plus regulations, and
considerable tolerance of boring tasks.

Because money is a non-negative quantity, there was no negative number
form in accounting, only the subtraction arithmetic operator.

Subtracting from zero gives you a negative number, it\'s not rocket science. Anyone can understand \"my bank account has -£35 in it\".

So accountants signify negative numbers, as in debts and losses, by
enclosing the value in parens. But computers prefer plus and minus
signs, so the convention is changing.

Minus and negative are the same thing.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:11:04 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:51:26 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:33:55 -0000, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:

On 3/23/23 05:46, NY wrote:

[snip[

Sensation of temperature is very subjective: I can feel cold when the
room is 25 deg C but I\'ve been sitting still for a long time but warm at
18 deg C if I\'ve been active. And radiant heat from the sun through a
window or from a wood stove can sometimes make a cold room feel warm.
The body is not a good thermometer

I remember going outside one day when the temperature was below freezing
and there was a lot of snow. No wind, and it was NOT cold (unless I
picked up some ice).

BTW, that was a strange day. It was hot earlier that afternoon.

I sprained my wrist when I went out at precisely 0C and didn\'t realise it was that cold. I slipped on the ice on my stupid neighbours concrete slab driveway putting his fucking bin out. Why can\'t people have proper driveways?

I thought I\'d broken it as it stiffened right up, the doctor agreed, he felt a chipped bit of bone. Turns out I\'d chipped that in an accident 35 years ago and hadn\'t noticed, since I was more concerned with the break in the arm.

I had a relative who had some pain in his foot, and the doctor x-rayed
it. There was a small nail inside his big toe. It had probably been
there for decades. Nobody ever explained that.

Alledgedly we break a bone in our little toe 7 times a year. True enough I have stubbed it about that many times and it fucking hurts.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:13:08 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:48:04 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:20:25 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:06:47 -0000, NY wrote:

By \"compression\" do you mean the fact that the range from freezing to
boiling is only 100 degrees Celsius but is 180 degrees Fahrenheit?

Given that there are fewer degrees C than degrees F in a given range of
temperatures (so each degree is \"bigger\"), I\'d have thought that a
change from n deg C to n+1 deg C would be *more* noticeable than a
change from n deg F to n+1 deg F.

Yes. The 9/5 or 5/9 however you want to look at it means 1 degree C is
roughly 2 degrees F. However unless you\'re looking at a thermometer of
some sort as you say can someone tell the difference between 1 degree in
either scale?

I can tell the difference if I\'m moving from one room to another. I can quite accurately guess the number of C difference.

I can also quite accurately determine the temperature of an object I touch if it\'s fairly near body temperature.

I can estimate the temp of a heat sink by touch pretty accurately, in
the range of about 45 to 65c. 50c is my threshold of pain.

You have an absurdly low pain threshold. A central heating radiator is traditionally 70C, and the guide is \"you should be able to touch it for 3-5 seconds before it\'s sore\".

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 03:22:49 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:47:12 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:24:43 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:54:27 -0000, NY wrote:


But since we *aren\'t* taught to count/calculate in base 12, it is a
right PITA to work with quantities where there may be one or two
digits in the old-pence column and one or two digits in the shillings
column, in £sd calculations.

My mother worked for a shirt manufacturer and brought home a mechanical
adding machine that had become obsolete. Being designed for a shirt
company it worked in dozens.

Who buys a dozen shirts?

A mens\' clothing store tends to buy more than one shirt at a time. She
worked for Cluett & Peabody who made Arrow shirts. The brand still exists
but now they\'re made in Bangladesh or some shithole.

Anyway, they were dress shirts with each style available in a variety of
collar sizes and sleeve lengths. When Harry\'s Haberdashery orders 5 dozen
shirts they don\'t get to pick an choose; they get a selection of sizes in
a normal distribution. That leads to a lot of base 12 arithmetic.

That\'s stupid, so if Harry has loads of XL left, and is running out of L, what does he do?

Today, the normal distribution seems to consist of XL, XLL, and XLLL sizes
with sleeves suitable for alligators.

 

[Rod Speed]

alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote

Commander Kinsey wrote

Do you check your checks? So much easier to call them cheques.
Not that anyone uses them in the 21st century.

I don\'t even use cash.

I only use cash at garage/yard/boot sales.

While I can pay to any mobile number, it isnt worth farting
around convincing the seller that its as good as cash when
there is a queue of those waiting to pay for what they want.

Which was handy, I went to park at a beach to go scuba diving and a man
approached me asking for £2 to park. I offered him a credit card, I
offered him my phone, but he wanted cash. I ended up getting let in
for free. I later heard him arguing with another driver who only had a
£10 note. The stupid car park operator was putting the coins straight
into a jar through a slot and couldn\'t give him £8 change. I walked
over and suggested he keep the next four fees in his hand and give them
to the first driver. He looked at me as though I was Einstein.

or something I\'d
usually write 25 Mar 23. It seems the first thing doctors or
pharmacists
want is your birthday so I use mm/dd/yyyy.
Why not dd/mm/yyyy? Start with the smallest, move to the largest.
You\'re ruining the world when a website asks for a date and doesn\'t
specify if it\'s English or American format.

When programming I use ISO-8601 conventions although there are several
flavors. yyyy-mm-dd.
What flavours?

 

[rbowman]

On Sun, 09 Apr 2023 05:42:50 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Anyway, they were dress shirts with each style available in a variety
of collar sizes and sleeve lengths. When Harry\'s Haberdashery orders 5
dozen shirts they don\'t get to pick an choose; they get a selection of
sizes in a normal distribution. That leads to a lot of base 12
arithmetic.

That\'s stupid, so if Harry has loads of XL left, and is running out of
L, what does he do?

Returns the unsold merchandise for credit. Think about it. At least back
then they weren\'t 3D printing shirts on demand. The entire lot of the
particular shirt was a normal distribution of sizes. There were no more
Ls. Maybe Tim the Tailor in Fat City could make use of the XLs.

 

[Fredxx]

On 09/04/2023 05:41, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:13:08 +0100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:48:04 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:20:25 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:06:47 -0000, NY wrote:

By \"compression\" do you mean the fact that the range from freezing to
boiling is only 100 degrees Celsius but is 180 degrees Fahrenheit?

Given that there are fewer degrees C than degrees F in a given
range of
temperatures (so each degree is \"bigger\"), I\'d have thought that a
change from n deg C to n+1 deg C would be *more* noticeable than a
change from n deg F to n+1 deg F.

Yes. The 9/5 or 5/9 however you want to look at it means 1 degree C is
roughly 2 degrees F.  However unless you\'re looking at a thermometer of
some sort as you say can someone tell the difference between 1
degree in
either scale?

I can tell the difference if I\'m moving from one room to another.  I
can quite accurately guess the number of C difference.

I can also quite accurately determine the temperature of an object I
touch if it\'s fairly near body temperature.

I can estimate the temp of a heat sink by touch pretty accurately, in
the range of about 45 to 65c. 50c is my threshold of pain.

You have an absurdly low pain threshold.  A central heating radiator is
traditionally 70C, and the guide is \"you should be able to touch it for
3-5 seconds before it\'s sore\".

You\'re in denial that John\'s pain threshold is typical:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100020960/downloads/20100020960.pdf


44 °C is the temperature at which damage starts. Touching a high
temperature surface under 80 °C causes a reflex response where little or
damage is caused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thermal-injury

You can be in denial of these simple facts, but facts they are and your
claims are short of the mark, as per usual.

 

[Rod Speed]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:40:48 +1000, Fredxx <fredxx@spam.uk> wrote:

On 09/04/2023 05:41, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:13:08 +0100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:48:04 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:20:25 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com
wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:06:47 -0000, NY wrote:

By \"compression\" do you mean the fact that the range from freezing
to
boiling is only 100 degrees Celsius but is 180 degrees Fahrenheit?

Given that there are fewer degrees C than degrees F in a given
range of
temperatures (so each degree is \"bigger\"), I\'d have thought that a
change from n deg C to n+1 deg C would be *more* noticeable than a
change from n deg F to n+1 deg F.

Yes. The 9/5 or 5/9 however you want to look at it means 1 degree C
is
roughly 2 degrees F. However unless you\'re looking at a thermometer
of
some sort as you say can someone tell the difference between 1
degree in
either scale?

I can tell the difference if I\'m moving from one room to another. I
can quite accurately guess the number of C difference.

I can also quite accurately determine the temperature of an object I
touch if it\'s fairly near body temperature.

I can estimate the temp of a heat sink by touch pretty accurately, in
the range of about 45 to 65c. 50c is my threshold of pain.
You have an absurdly low pain threshold. A central heating radiator
is traditionally 70C, and the guide is \"you should be able to touch it
for 3-5 seconds before it\'s sore\".

You\'re in denial that John\'s pain threshold is typical:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100020960/downloads/20100020960.pdf

44 °C is the temperature at which damage starts.

Bullshit.

Touching a high temperature surface under 80 °C causes a reflex response
where little or damage is caused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thermal-injury

You can be in denial of these simple facts,

The first one isnt a fact, simple or otherwise

> but facts they are

Not with the first one.

> and your claims are short of the mark, as per usual.

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:40:48 +0100, Fredxx <fredxx@spam.uk> wrote:

On 09/04/2023 05:41, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:13:08 +0100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:48:04 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:20:25 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:06:47 -0000, NY wrote:

By \"compression\" do you mean the fact that the range from freezing to
boiling is only 100 degrees Celsius but is 180 degrees Fahrenheit?

Given that there are fewer degrees C than degrees F in a given
range of
temperatures (so each degree is \"bigger\"), I\'d have thought that a
change from n deg C to n+1 deg C would be *more* noticeable than a
change from n deg F to n+1 deg F.

Yes. The 9/5 or 5/9 however you want to look at it means 1 degree C is
roughly 2 degrees F.  However unless you\'re looking at a thermometer of
some sort as you say can someone tell the difference between 1
degree in
either scale?

I can tell the difference if I\'m moving from one room to another.  I
can quite accurately guess the number of C difference.

I can also quite accurately determine the temperature of an object I
touch if it\'s fairly near body temperature.

I can estimate the temp of a heat sink by touch pretty accurately, in
the range of about 45 to 65c. 50c is my threshold of pain.

You have an absurdly low pain threshold.  A central heating radiator is
traditionally 70C, and the guide is \"you should be able to touch it for
3-5 seconds before it\'s sore\".

You\'re in denial that John\'s pain threshold is typical:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100020960/downloads/20100020960.pdf


44 °C is the temperature at which damage starts. Touching a high
temperature surface under 80 °C causes a reflex response where little or
damage is caused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thermal-injury

You can be in denial of these simple facts, but facts they are and your
claims are short of the mark, as per usual.

He\'s just here for emotional conflict. Numbers don\'t matter.

I had a medical scare recently. I had a bunch of red spots appear on
my arms. Googling suggested metastasized melanomas or cherry angiomas.
But they slowly changed color to brownish, which those don\'t do. A
week later, a fresh batch cropped up.

We figured it out. I was frying things in canola oil in a shallow pan,
pot stickers and then crab cakes. I didn\'t much notice the hot oil
spatters when they happened.

The cure is to use a deep pot which catches most of the splats. That
does make things a little harder to flip.

 

[Joe Gwinn]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:02:44 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:40:48 +0100, Fredxx <fredxx@spam.uk> wrote:

On 09/04/2023 05:41, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:13:08 +0100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:48:04 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:20:25 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:06:47 -0000, NY wrote:

By \"compression\" do you mean the fact that the range from freezing to
boiling is only 100 degrees Celsius but is 180 degrees Fahrenheit?

Given that there are fewer degrees C than degrees F in a given
range of
temperatures (so each degree is \"bigger\"), I\'d have thought that a
change from n deg C to n+1 deg C would be *more* noticeable than a
change from n deg F to n+1 deg F.

Yes. The 9/5 or 5/9 however you want to look at it means 1 degree C is
roughly 2 degrees F.  However unless you\'re looking at a thermometer of
some sort as you say can someone tell the difference between 1
degree in
either scale?

I can tell the difference if I\'m moving from one room to another.  I
can quite accurately guess the number of C difference.

I can also quite accurately determine the temperature of an object I
touch if it\'s fairly near body temperature.

I can estimate the temp of a heat sink by touch pretty accurately, in
the range of about 45 to 65c. 50c is my threshold of pain.

You have an absurdly low pain threshold.  A central heating radiator is
traditionally 70C, and the guide is \"you should be able to touch it for
3-5 seconds before it\'s sore\".

You\'re in denial that John\'s pain threshold is typical:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100020960/downloads/20100020960.pdf


44 °C is the temperature at which damage starts. Touching a high
temperature surface under 80 °C causes a reflex response where little or
damage is caused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thermal-injury

You can be in denial of these simple facts, but facts they are and your
claims are short of the mark, as per usual.

He\'s just here for emotional conflict. Numbers don\'t matter.

I had a medical scare recently. I had a bunch of red spots appear on
my arms. Googling suggested metastasized melanomas or cherry angiomas.
But they slowly changed color to brownish, which those don\'t do. A
week later, a fresh batch cropped up.

We figured it out. I was frying things in canola oil in a shallow pan,
pot stickers and then crab cakes. I didn\'t much notice the hot oil
spatters when they happened.

The cure is to use a deep pot which catches most of the splats. That
does make things a little harder to flip.

I feel your pain. I use a simple stainless-steel spatter screen.

..<https://www.amazon.com/HIC-Harold-Co-30026-Stainless/dp/B003VAP2MM/ref=sr_1_27?keywords=splatter%2Bscreens%2Bstainless%2Bsteel&qid=1681257995&s=kitchen&sr=1-27&th=1>

Joe Gwinn

 

[Peeler]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:38:11 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>

--
David Plowman about senile Rodent Speed\'s trolling:
\"Wodney is doing a lot of morphing these days. Must be even more desperate
than usual for attention.\"
MID: <59a60da1d9dave@davenoise.co.uk>

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 07:53:41 +0100, Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> wrote:

In message <op.12z59unsmvhs6z@ryzen.home>, Commander Kinsey
CK1@nospam.com> writes
On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:27:08 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

Sorry, I was thinking about \"presently\", which, in England means in \"a
while\" and in Scotland means \"going on at the moment\".

Only my English grandmother said \"presently\" for in a while. Every
other English person uses it to mean right now.

No they don\'t.

\" I will be there presently\". Because of the furrier tense, \'presently\'
can only refer to the future (the immediate future), ie \'very soon\', \'in
a moment\', \'in a while\' etc.

\"I am there presently\". Because of the present tense, \'presently\' can
only mean \'now\', \'at the moment\' etc.

There is no ambiguity.

It\'s screwed up. In your second example, presently means now. \"I am there now\". But you can\'t say \"I will be there now\", you\'d say soon. You can\'t say you will be then use a present tense word.

And WTF is a furrier? Is that when your dog grows longer hair?

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:56:08 +0100, NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

\"Commander Kinsey\" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote in message
newsp.12z57gtbmvhs6z@ryzen.home...
I can\'t understand yanks not using stones. They put their weight in just
pounds, which means you get a ridiculously high number which is
meaningless, then try to divide it by 14 in your head! Do they also
measure their car speed in inches per hour?

I\'ve seen roadworks signs in Massachusetts which say something like
\"Roadworks in 5280 feet\" (that\'s 1 mile to everyone else!). That was in the
late 1990s.

Americans are so stupid. Do you buy something for three thousand four hundred cents?

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:07:43 +0100, Pepe Ron Cini <pepe@friggitello.org> wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote:
Why are people obsessed with littering their sentences with \"that\"? Show me the difference in meaning between:

I realised that the US didn\'t use stones for measuring weights.
I realised the US didn\'t use stones for measuring weights.

I don\'t think that it matters.

It\'s fucking irritating to have more words to parse.

Here\'s a worse example only Americans use:
\"Now what you\'re gonna wanna do next is turn on the switch\".
Instead of:
\"Turn on the switch\".

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:01:14 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:00:15 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:


When programming I use ISO-8601 conventions although there are several
flavors. yyyy-mm-dd.

What flavours?

The time can be Zulu, Zulu with an offset, or local. Zulu with an offset
is the most useful.

I will accept Zulu, I will accept GMT, but I absolutely point blank will not refer to UTC.

 

[rbowman]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:28:17 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:01:14 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:00:15 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:


When programming I use ISO-8601 conventions although there are
several flavors. yyyy-mm-dd.

What flavours?

The time can be Zulu, Zulu with an offset, or local. Zulu with an
offset is the most useful.

I will accept Zulu, I will accept GMT, but I absolutely point blank will
not refer to UTC.

Don\'t like Froggies? The way Macron is mouthing off the next time France
needs saving they should call someone who cares. The US might even go back
to Freedom Fries.

 

[rbowman]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:26:18 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:56:08 +0100, NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

\"Commander Kinsey\" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote in message
newsp.12z57gtbmvhs6z@ryzen.home...
I can\'t understand yanks not using stones. They put their weight in
just pounds, which means you get a ridiculously high number which is
meaningless, then try to divide it by 14 in your head! Do they also
measure their car speed in inches per hour?

I\'ve seen roadworks signs in Massachusetts which say something like
\"Roadworks in 5280 feet\" (that\'s 1 mile to everyone else!). That was in
the late 1990s.

Americans are so stupid. Do you buy something for three thousand four
hundred cents?

What you have to realize is Massachusetts was settled by Brits. They don\'t
call it New England for nothing. I lived there for a brief period. At the
time you couldn\'t buy groceries on Sunday because it would piss god off or
something. I could either drive to an adjoining state or go to Abe\'s
Kosher Market. I don\'t care if some Jew administered the Last Rites to the
cow; cow is cow. The pork selection sucked though. Abe had to close on
Saturday but the normal grocery stores were open then.