March topic(s) for BLU

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:20:09PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:17:19 -0500
> "Martin Owens" <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Indeed; it isn't a us vs yous fight I want here. In the uk we would
> > say 21st March 2007 and thus shortened to 21/03/2007; but I wouldn't
> > use that date form here because it's ambiguous  to us people. instead
> > the iso date format allows dates to be read by anyone in the world
> > including mathematicians.
> Not true. A mathematician wants something like 1172873948.0547. :-)

@4000000045e895f70abb083c  ==
2007 March 02 16:23:01.122654500

(tai64n, http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html)

HTH. HAND. 

-dsr-

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