Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[humfrz]

Welp, folks ....... ol humfrz turned 75 years old today........

Yep, as the old CW song goes ..... "I woke up still not dead today" ......

Another year and no jealous husbands caught up with me ......

I celebrated by cleaning out the eves prior to a storm coming tomorrow.

Last year was my last year cleaning off the roof ...... I have no business up there ..... now, it's a son-in-law job.

I'm thinking this might be my last year on a double ladder even cleaning out the eves ..... I have no business being up there ...... another son-in-law job......

Which brings to mind a back-in-the-day story, back when I was about 10 years old.

It was a hot day in August, back on the farm, and the crops were laid by ..... so, it was the year to paint the barn. @Tcoat - have I told this story before ... ??

Now the big barn was quite high and the gables were the highest point. The old, rickety, wire bandaged up, wooden ladder set (even extended past the safety point) wouldn't reach the top.

So, my father pulled up our 1941 Ford 1.5 ton truck up to the end of the barn. Now here was the plan, my father set up the double ladders in the bed of the truck and I was to climb all the way to the top and paint.

When it came time to move, my grandfather would fire up the truck, my father would swing the ladder set away from the barn (with me up there) and my grandfather would pull the truck up a few feet.

I still have acrophobia

(no CPS back then....)


THE END


humfrz

[Sarlacc]

Wow, someone is in a mood

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Although indeed very old the use of the 24 hour clock is neither antiquated nor local.

No... I am hinting that the AM/PM system is very antiquated and somewhat local.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

What is at all difficult about understanding there are 24 hours in a day with midnight as the jump off point. What you attached is based on the 24 hour clock and seems seems perfectly innocent at first but then goes sideways fast:

Year: YYYY (eg 1997) Well yeah
Year and month: YYYY-MM (eg 1997-07) OK pretty normal everyplace but what exacty is wrong with month names even in different languages?

Simply that being fluent in any specific language should not be required to read a date.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Complete date: YYYY-MM-DD (eg 1997-07-16) Fine but most of what I need to know is the date and the month since I don't do much transitioning years

Then at least let's agree to use the month and the date in a standardized order.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Complete date plus hours and minutes: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20+01:00) So I know the date but not really sure what time it is
Complete date plus hours, minutes and seconds: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00) Am I timing an egg boiling somtime in the future?

The "+01:00" in that example indicates the time zone offset as reference to UTC, previously known as GMT, often referred to as "Zulu time" by military forces in NATO aligned countries.
This makes it possible to see what the given time will be in any time zone around the globe.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Complete date plus hours, minutes, seconds and a decimal fraction of a
second: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00) WHAT BLOODY TIME IS IT? I AM NOT A COMPUTER THAT NEEDS THIS LEVEL OF TIME!

THEN DON'T USE THE DECIMAL FRACTIONS! THEY ARE OPTIONAL!

Originally Posted by Tcoat

All in all I can see it being a totally practical system for computers where uniformity helps but seems a bit overkill for day to day use.
Doesn't matter anyway since we still can't get the Americans to understand measurements based on units of 10.


Not convinced that W3C is exactly supporting this standard.

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The STANDARD is still ISO8601, these are suggestions for use of the standard.
This document is regarded as a defacto standard, as previously stated, and widely used.

And no to the image, it should be 07-04 :-)

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Welp, folks ....... ol humfrz turned 75 years old today........

Happy birthday!

[Clipdat]

Happy Birthday my friend!

Hope you took some time to relax and treat yourself.

Originally Posted by humfrz

Welp, folks ....... ol humfrz turned 75 years old today........

[Ultramaroon]

Clearly it wasn't shovel snow. What did you do?

Originally Posted by Cole

Had a productive morning.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Welp, folks ....... ol humfrz turned 75 years old today........


humfrz

Happy birthday old man.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

Wow, someone is in a mood


No... I am hinting that the AM/PM system is very antiquated and somewhat local.
Simply that being fluent in any specific language should not be required to read a date.Then at least let's agree to use the month and the date in a standardized order.

The "+01:00" in that example indicates the time zone offset as reference to UTC, previously known as GMT, often referred to as "Zulu time" by military forces in NATO aligned countries.
This makes it possible to see what the given time will be in any time zone around the globe.THEN DON'T USE THE DECIMAL FRACTIONS! THEY ARE OPTIONAL!

The STANDARD is still ISO8601, these are suggestions for use of the standard.
This document is regarded as a defacto standard, as previously stated, and widely used.

And no to the image, it should be 07-04 :-)

I was just joking about military time.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by Spuds

That happened to me like 5 times. But now I get to do whatever I want because I have more experience than anyone else doing pretty much everything we do here.

Yeah, try having the company be acquired. Boom. You're nothing again.

A contribution I made almost single handedly in 2010 was valued (over 5 years) higher than the purchase price...

Hi, yes I'd love to do the job I was doing 10 years ago again, thanks!

My biggest worry is that there is an assumption I'll take on management stuff.

Grumblegrumble.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by cjd

Yeah, try having the company be acquired. Boom. You're nothing again.

A contribution I made almost single handedly in 2010 was valued (over 5 years) higher than the purchase price...

Hi, yes I'd love to do the job I was doing 10 years ago again, thanks!

My biggest worry is that there is an assumption I'll take on management stuff.

Grumblegrumble.

Ah that sucks. Management stuff I mean .

[Ultramaroon]

Julian time FTW. Right now it's 2458129.672917



...give or take

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I was just joking about military time.

I know, I just took it as an excuse to rant on one of my many hangups.

Now, anyone care to debate the superiority of the metric system or the importance of backwards compatibility in information storage formats?
Because I've got hangups on those, too.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

I know, I just took it as an excuse to rant on one of my many hangups.

Now, anyone care to debate the superiority of the metric system or the importance of backwards compatibility in information storage formats?
Because I've got hangups on those, too.

Nope. It seems that we have the same hangups.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

I know, I just took it as an excuse to rant on one of my many hangups.

Now, anyone care to debate the superiority of the metric system or the importance of backwards compatibility in information storage formats?
Because I've got hangups on those, too.

Base 8 is superior for humans, one can easily count to 24 (yes, that's base 10…) with the digits on two average hands.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

I know, I just took it as an excuse to rant on one of my many hangups.

Now, anyone care to debate the superiority of the metric system or the importance of backwards compatibility in information storage formats?
Because I've got hangups on those, too.

Breath....