From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri May 12 07:58:27 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1276 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 14:57:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 May 2000 14:57:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 May 2000 14:57:43 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04491 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <391C0EBB.3CE7A118@reutershealth.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:01:31 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] Centripetal-centrifugal, little-endian--big-endian, subsets-contents, etc. References: <4.2.2.20000511063957.00adeca0@127.0.0.1> <200005120014.CAA21294@Zeke.Update.UU.SE> <391BCB5B.7094@math.bas.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > Most are, but (1) the large numerals tend to be longer and > (2) the 24-hour format is only practical if you happen to be > wearing a digital watch, and then only if it has a 24-hour > display. IIRC, Italy has been using 24-hour time for more than fifty years, including 24-hour analog clocks in public places. Or is this untrue? -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)