Re: WARNING: AMD64 Daylight saving time issue.

From: Huge (huge_at_ukmisc.org.uk)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: 29 Oct 2005 13:32:31 GMT

js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>In article <djvrhl$q60$1@anubis.demon.co.uk>, Huge <huge@ukmisc.org.uk> wrote:
>>js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>
>>>While the old British and old German metrics from before 1920 have many
>>>different sources and have been artificially brought into some still bad
>>>relation, the metric system has the advantage to be related to one single
>>>base: the Earth.
>>
>>Garbage. The measurement of the distance from the equator to the North Pole
>>on a line through Paris, that was used as the basis for the metre, was wrong
>>anyway.
>
>This is of course wrong.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

So, you're telling me that it was possible to measure the distance from the
Equator to the North Pole, to the resolution of the wavelength of light,
in 1793? Yeah. Right.

>Did yiu get this from the same people who tell you that coverting to Euro
>wouild force wou to drive at the right side of the roads?

Typical "argument" of the metrication fascist. 

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