From rob@twcny.rr.com Fri Sep 14 18:17:28 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 01:17:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 60624 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 00:45:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 00:45:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.177) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 00:45:32 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f8F0iSw07381 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:44:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:44:26 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15i3Zu-0000TI-00 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:45:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:45:02 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e Message-ID: <20010914204502.B1736@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <8c.c91db6e.28d3a340@aol.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010914171357.00bf2600@pop.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010914171357.00bf2600@pop.cais.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:17:04PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At 02:15 PM 9/14/01 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > >about standards, having been embroiled in the failure of JCB to pick a > >standard for Loglan and get it into use, and Lojban Central's decision to > >impose a procrustean baseline for five years. There were very good reasons > >to do that, of which I'm sure you're well aware, and similar considerations > >apply in a lot of technical areas.> > > BTW. No one has mentioned one bit of the nitty gritty of this particular > world standard, but don't most standards insist on 24 hour clock time? Do > the world standard organizations believe that they will get the world to > use a 24 hour clock in everyday life? (Note that at one point I tried to > get Lojbanists to consider a 24 hour clock as an option, but the community > outvoted me.) How odd. I've never seen the 12-hour clock in any Lojban usage (or even any method of accomplishing it, without resorting to cmene). The lessons teach 24-hour time, plus 12-hour names for hours, but don't even teach how to specify minutes in 12-hour time. Which I like. -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri