Having stumbled across a copy of the educational film "About Time," I can correct the quotations that kick off the README file; the diffs should be attached. @dashdashado
Thanks, installed here: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/3bb6716a898137fb01e28c0bf7971fa48101b3b1 It is funny that those quotes have been in README since you added them in March 1989 and nobody has complained. Not enough Les Tremayne fans out there? PS. Also, I think your version of the dialog was better than the original....
On Thu 2019-01-31T18:19:58-0500 Arthur David Olson hath writ:
Having stumbled across a copy of the educational film "About Time," I can correct the quotations that kick off the README file; the diffs should be attached.
Aha, it is online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__emnxC2Gc
! "Where do I set the hands of the clock?" -- Les Tremayne as The King ! "Oh that--you can set them any place you want." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist (from the Bell System film "About Time")
This is particularly marvelous because during the production of that film the BIH was deciding to re-set all of its atomic time scales in a fashion as arbitrary as the dialog such that the values of all their atomic time scales (including A3 which became TAI) were (UT2 - AnyBIHatomicTimeScale) = -1.4123 s at the epoch 1961-01-01T20:00:00 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/taiepoch.html Even more marvelous because that value of UT2 was reset a year later. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m
On Feb 2, 2019, at 01:51, Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> wrote:
Aha, it is online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__emnxC2Gc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__emnxC2Gc>
Wow! This brought back memories of sitting spellbound in a 5th grade classroom almost half a century ago, watching Frank Baxter elucidate the mysteries of time and relativity. I can almost hear the 16 mm projector grinding away in the back of the room. Now if only the various ‘sovereign entities’ today were as receptive to instruction as the king of Planet Q… :) Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A billion seconds ago Harry Truman was President. A billion | | minutes ago was just after the time of Christ. A billion hours ago | | man had not yet walked the earth. A billion dollars ago was late | | yesterday afternoon at the US Treasury. | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
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