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From: zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Disc Compatibility?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 12:46:02 -0500
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On 3/7/2025 3:50 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 3/7/2025 1:34 PM, Zen Cycle 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
> 
> I came to agree with that as a smartass teenager.
> 
> The entire argument gets a glazed look or an eye roll. I convinced not 
> one person and eventually learned to shut up about time systems.
> 

+1
lets just say that isn't a hill I'm ready to die on