From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Mon Jul 09 03:34:16 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 9 Jul 2001 10:34:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 84951 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2001 10:34:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Jul 2001 10:34:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta3 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2001 10:34:16 -0000 Received: from m46-mp1-cvx1b.bir.ntl.com ([62.255.40.46] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15JY7w-0000vj-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:18:52 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Times of Day Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:33:27 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" pc > In a message dated 7/7/2001 7:50:30 PM Central Daylight Time, > edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu writes: > > Please can we go make the 24-hour clock official? Pretty please? I hate > having the hours of the morning (and afternoon) run > > 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11, or worse > > XII I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI >---------------------------------------------- > > Grimly enough, the textbook keeps this up even in 24-hour time, calling > midnight (and, one supposes, the hour after it) {la revocac}. OTOH, a culturally-neutral lg shd be able to adapt itself to diverse chronometric systems, including the ones that run 12-1-...-11 a.m.+p.m. and the ones that run 0-...-23. The same goes for feet & inches, stone and ounces, etc. But it shdn't be a job for cmene, though. It shd be a lujvo thing. So "lo relvoncacra", not "la revocac". --And.