Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Disc Compatibility? Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:20:17 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 76 Message-ID: <16lmsj5r381r181512pckictslgokgb779@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:20:19 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="062af52e645e80f12dbbed8ffe8ed68d"; logging-data="3909496"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18TaaYpv7xKL+Ihw6fPEL2QioLsjBP7FBM=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1bN49wSYFIk6HQZH/4EJf6PMUis= Bytes: 4764 On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 14:34:28 -0500, Zen Cycle wrote: >On 3/7/2025 12:57 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 11:23:38 -0500, Frank Krygowski >> wrote: >> >>> On 3/7/2025 12:46 AM, Roger Merriman wrote: >>>> Jeff Liebermann wrote: >>>>> On 6 Mar 2025 12:46:35 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> With apologies for Facebook link! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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" >> >> >> 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: >> >> 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: >> >> >> 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: >> >> >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. -- C'est bon Soloman