[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org>
>Date: 2006/08/23 Wed AM 01:38:04 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Now for something completely geek

>On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:35:28 -0600 (MDT), Dan Duncan wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> >    Farmers complain the time change adversely affects livestock,
>> >    especially dairy cows, disrupting milking schedules.
>> >
>> > Because cows wear wristwtches, of course.
>> 
>> Cows expect to be milked at a particular time each day.  When you
>
>Only in the sense that they expect to be milked 24 hours (or 12 ?) after
>the last time. I've tried questioning cows about their perception of
>time, and all they come back with is "Moo?", so I guess they don't care
>if it's 5am, 4am, or @1.34 (whatever that translates to).

Cute. My point was that at one point the nice 24 hour interval (period, if you will) becomes either 23 hours or 25 hours, assuming everything else is regulated by daylight savings time...

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>> I have a 9 month old baby who has started sleeping through the
>> night since the last time change and wakes up at 7:20am every
>> morning, 7 days a week.  I know in a couple of months she's going to
>> start waking up (and waking us up) at 6:20am because to her it's
>> 7:20am and time for breakfast.  Those of you who will be getting
>> an extra hour of sleep after October are lucky.
>
>So go into work an hour earlier, go home an hour earlier, go to sleep an
>hour earlier. 

Yoou keep your kid in the house - are you nuts? They'll get greasy little fingerprints all over your laptop screen, and think nothing of shoving a obscure SBUS card in the VCR because they want to see Teletubbies! ;^)

Lionel