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Don Pearce[_3_]
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On 11 Jan 2020 08:10:43 -0500,
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:
John Williamson wrote:
On 10/01/2020 17:00, Don Pearce wrote:
I've just been listening to More or Less, a BBC programme about
numbers, statistics and general misconception. They had an article
about exactly this question. They had a statement from The Royal
Observatory in Greenwich, the official home of time on Earth. The
message stated unequivocally that millennia, centuries and decades
start on the year ending in a one.
End of discussion.
If you listen to the excerpt that is on line from the ten year old
programme they mentioned in this show, they admit there are two sides to
the story, and either is acceptable. Imagine that 1940 was in the 1930s,
for instance....
What do they know at Greenwich? The official prime meridian for time
reference should be Paris, and it's only the fault of that damned Wellington
that anyone has accepted the Greenwich reference.
--scott
Wellington? He was just doing his job. Blame Napoleon.
d
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