Steve Allen wrote in <20221004224331.GA26297@ucolick.org>: |On Wed 2022-10-05T04:14:42+0700 Robert Elz hath writ: |> Or, perhaps your kids knew that the clock on the wall was wrong (fast), |> and were relying upon that to get to the bus stop to catch the bus |> to school, you move the clock backwards by 10 minutes, and they miss the |> bus. [rest of adventure redacted] | |We have constructed a system wherein the components only work as |expected with a simplistic notion of time that tells lies to them. You can smear a bit, here and there. To adjust the outcome to the expectation. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)