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From: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>

> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> > Not possible. The length of the year is not a simple multiple of the
> > length of a day. Furthermore, the length of the day is not constant.
>
> Lots of smart people think about time. There's no particular relationship
> between the solar day the lunar month and the earth year. our calender is
> essentially aribitary except for some convenient hacks that keep
> astronomical phenomena is sync with our arbitary calendar. we now have the
> ability to tell time using clocks fixed to physical constants, but that
> hasn't really informed on the arbitrary calendar yet.
>
> Just another idiot on the bus...

<alert="graveyard humor"> And his backpack fizzled.</alert>

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