Re: Daylight Savings Time problem
Alan Davis wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
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> > Buddha Buck:
> > >
> > > what/where is Kwajalein?
> >
> > Ever see that picture of an atomic bomb test, taken from an airplane,
> > where there is a circle of old battleships a few miles from where the
> > bomb goes off, and they get thrown around like toys? I think that's
> > Kwajalein atoll. I think people can live there again now.
>
> Actually, I believe that was Eniwetok Atoll, or else Bikini---those
> are the two atolls on which the testing was done. Kwajalein is the
> current target of missile test shots from Vandenburg Air Force Base on
> the West Coast, and was never the site of any of the nuclear tests.
> As to whether you would care to live on either Bikini or Eniwetok, you
> are on your own, though I don't know that much... Some local natives
> were moved back home, then off again. They are really hard up. There
> was a US (Dept of Energy?) Marine Laboratory for many years at
> Eniwetok, the Mid Pacific Marine Laboratory, and researchers did live
> there.
So we have a time zone file for either a) a nuclear test site, or b) a
missile test range target.
Why?
--
Buddha Buck bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu
"She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were
like those of donkeys and whose seed came in floods like that of
stallions." -- Ezekiel 23:20
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