On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:17 PM Ben Koenig <techkoe...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > ------- Original Message ------- > > On Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 at 10:45 AM, Michael Rasmussen > <mich...@jamhome.us> wrote: > > > On 2022-02-22 01:33, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > > > I'm running this script in an xterm: > > > > > > while true; do date -u; sleep 10 ; done > > > > > > Tuesday Feb 22 afternoon, it may emit: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > Tue Feb 22 22:22:12 UTC 2022 > > > > > > Tue Feb 22 22:22:22 UTC 2022 > > > > > > Tue Feb 22 22:22:32 UTC 2022 > > > > > > ... > > > > > > Them's a lotta 2s, and there won't be more 2s for 200 years. > > > > > > And that will be a Friday, not a twos day. > > > > > > Or not, the stuff besides the "sleep 10" will take a few > > > > > > milliseconds as well. > > > > > > Anyway, if someone is feeling ambitious, they can write a better > > > > > > script with a more accurate clock mechanism. Perhaps start up > > > > > > at 22:21 UTC, highlight 22:22 UTC, finish at 22:23 UTC, then > > > > > > screenprint the xterm window. > > > > > > Please send code! > > > > > > Or if you don't get the script debugged in time, 22:22 PDT. > > > > > > But that isn't cricket, is it? More like basketball. > > Timezones. For Portland PST is UTC-8 > 10:00 PM UTC == 14:00 PM PST
But ... is there a timezone with two in it? Tuva? Tunis? Vanuatu?
