Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 06:21:57PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-06-24 at 18:12, John Hasler wrote:
> 
> > The Wanderer writes:
> >
> >> (Similar logic could be used for 11:59:59 PM, 12:00 M, and 12:00:01 AM,
> >> where the standalone M would stand for "midnight". That does expose one
> >> unfortunate weakness of this system: unless you introduce an additional
> >> layer of complexity, e.g. using "00:00 M", the notations for noon and
> >> midnight would be identical.)
> > 
> > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works.
> 

British forces - and probably also merchant shipping - use log keeping
for radio purposes in UTC. The need to be sure of dates means that 
0000 doesn't exist - logs jump from 2359 to 0001.

A colleague - ex-RAF - reckons that those are the two minutes the RAF
gives each person for personal space :)

Andy


> Except that "noon" doesn't begin with "m", and therefore "12:00 noon"
> can't be abbreviated to "12:00 M".
> 
> I think that (plus the fact of "ante meridiem"/"post meridiem") was
> probably what I was drawing on in coming up with the idea in the first
> place.
> 
> -- 
>    The Wanderer
> 
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> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw
>