March topic(s) for BLU

[doctormo at gmail.com (Martin Owens)]

hmm so the message wasn't typed? I thought perhaps it was a typed
message; oh well it's googles fault then ;-)

On 02/03/07, Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe since we're all linux geek we should use a unix timestamp that's UTC
>
> Matt
>
> On 3/2/07, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:17:19 -0500
> > "Martin Owens" <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Indeed; it isn't a us vs yous fight I want here. In the uk we would
> > > say 21st March 2007 and thus shortened to 21/03/2007; but I wouldn't
> > > use that date form here because it's ambiguous  to us people. instead
> > > the iso date format allows dates to be read by anyone in the world
> > > including mathematicians.
> > Not true. A mathematician wants something like 1172873948.0547. :-)
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