Re: WARNING: AMD64 Daylight saving time issue.

From: Joerg Schilling (js_at_cs.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: 29 Oct 2005 14:49:28 GMT

In article <djvtlf$qjf$2@anubis.demon.co.uk>, Huge <huge@ukmisc.org.uk> wrote:
>js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>>In article <djvrhl$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.

You did just prove yourself that your first idea related to the north pole and
Paris was wrong and that I was right with the circumference of the Earth.
As you are trying to argue again the proved wrong direction, it looks
like you are a non-metric fashist.

I encourage you to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre 

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