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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Disc Compatibility?
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:20:17 -0500
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 14:34:28 -0500, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On 3/7/2025 12:57 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 11:23:38 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/7/2025 12:46 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>> Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 6 Mar 2025 12:46:35 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> With apologies for Facebook link!
>>>>>> <https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154178800268586&id=13533633585>
>>>>>
>>>>> A stone that size would weigh about 25 tonnes (or tons).  The trailer
>>>>> in the video might be able to handle 1 tonne.  With the trailer wheels
>>>>> shown, probably less.  The painted rock is likely to be a fake.
>>>>
>>>> All good logical points and my wife probably tried to explain at the time!
>>>>>
>>>>> Another clue is that it was posted on Mar 31, 2016 (US), which would
>>>>> be April 1 in England.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Would have been 2014 the original one, or at least the one that fooled me
>>>> for a while, it’s why such folks as my self get a higher rate of
>>>> conspiracies theories and gambling and so on.
>>>
>>> I did a reflecting ceiling sundial on the ceiling of my study at home.
>>> When the clocks change, I just jack up the house and rotate it 15 degrees.
>> 
>> "S.29 - Sunshine Protection Act of 2025"
>> <https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/29/text>
>> 
>> If the bill passes, year round daylight savings time will become the
>> new standard time unless a state decides to ignore daylight saving
>> time, leave things alone, or add some more amendments to really screw
>> things up.
>> 
>> Personally, I wouldn't mind switching to GMT/UTC but that's likely to
>> make things worse.  Pick a standard, any standard:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_standard>
>> but don't change the time in mid-year.
>> 
>> I'm still waiting for a study of how much energy and dollars was saved
>> by enlarging DST in the US:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States>
>> 
>> In 2019, California attempted to make DST more "flexible" (which means
>> adjust the dates to which way the political wind is blowing).  The
>> bill failed to pass:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7>
>> 
>I would support basing everything off 24 hr GMT. I don't see how that 
>would make anything 'worse', if anything, it simplifes everything. A 
>zoom meeting at 1200 is 1200 everywhere, regardless if you're in Berlin 
>Germany or NYC. No more excuses of forgetting to account for time zones. 
>No more needing to base your clock setting off longitude.
>
>While we're at it, get rid of the 24/60/60 system, base it all on tens: 
>Ten hours in a day, ten minutes in an hour, ten seconds in a minute. A 
>day becomes 1000 seconds long rather than 86400 seconds. We already use 
>base ten to divide seconds anyway, so subdividing into milli, micro, 
>pico, nano, and femto seconds will be nothing new, we would just use 
>them more often (which incidentally would help with converting globally 
>to the metric system). Plank time wouldn't need to change, just the 
>conversion to seconds:
>
>https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?plkt

24 hour (military time) makes so much more sense than AM/PM. 

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C'est bon
Soloman