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If you were "trying to get at formal recording of time" why didn't you mention that in your comment? You only mentioned counting time and words for time.
by dfc 13y ago
If you were "trying to get at formal recording of time" why didn't you mention that in your comment? You only mentioned counting time and words for time.
- contingencies 13y agoI think the line of thought was and remains only half-baked in my own mind, it was more a ponderance than a well reasoned argument and I hadn't expected such a scientific style interpretation in readers. My bad.
- endersshadow 13y agoYou might be interested in reading more about the development of "Railroad Time" in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_time#Railroad_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_time#Railroad_time
- contingencies 13y agoInteresting. After living for most of a decade in China I've often thought about the very (bureaucratically-)pragmatic decision made by the Communist Party to normalize the timezone across the entire country. Of course, it wouldn't happen today, but now it's a feature of the country and is unlikely to change. For a great deal more evolutionary temporal trivia see the tz database mailing list; along with many others tasked with implementation, late last year I realised its seeming antiquity of scope and form, but this is being ignored. https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018297.html https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018297.html
- dfc 13y agoYou are still not convinced that what you are suggesting is: http://cldr.unicode.org/ http://cldr.unicode.org/ ?
- contingencies 13y agoErr, if you read the thread, CLDR is a reasonable but different, bloated and hacky library maintained by a completely different body, providing only subset of the intended functionality ... and a whole lot of other stuff.