[ale] erasing a hard drive

[Geoffrey Myers]

The Don Lachlan wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:35:51AM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> In Ethiopia the day begins at dawn which of course varies slightly
>> throughout the year.
>> Yeah. Policy made by non-scientists that pertain to science.
>> On Aug 27, 2011 10:27 AM, "Mike Harrison" <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>>> I'm currently dealing with a (foreign) legal system that is defining:
>>> The last day of the month at exactly midnight, as the last timestamp of
>>> the day, and they want data readings timestamped '2011-09-01 00:00:00' to
>>> be what they think of as '2011-08-31 00:00:00' not groking that is the
>>> begining of that day, not the end of it.. at least as far as the OS
>>> (Linux of course) and MySQL are concerned.
> 
> That the "day" begins 12:00P and ends 11:59P is just a convention. There's
> no natural law involved. As long as the "day" is approximately 24 hours,
> it's scientifically correct. This doesn't mean GNU/Linux will support their
> uncommon but scientifically correct calendar...

There's no such thing as 12:00P


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Until later, Geoffrey

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