Paul Jakma said:
> actually, wasn't it the british who introduced it during the
> first world
> war so that farmers could be more productive. (ie they
> wouldn't waste the
> earlier hour of daylight).. that's what i learned in history
> class anyway.
The only solution is that we all just speak in terms of
number of seconds since 1970 ;)
Get rid of this archaic 24 hour thing - it isn't even
a power of ten ^H^H^H two ;)
> > Right, I'm not posting again. This thread is going well OT
> oooopppss... :)
I just can't resist!
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