Adam Turoff on Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:47:43 -0500 (EST)


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Re: Monday the 20th


Geoff wrote:
> At 01:21 PM 12/20/99 , Ziggy wrote:
> 
> >Good idea.  I think Geoff said that would be 1/24/100.
> >
> > > Anyone decisive?
> >
> >I second the motion and call for unanimous concent.
> 
> At 01:23 PM 12/20/99 , Ziggy wrote:
> > >
> > > I second the motion and call for unanimous concent.
> >
> >Motion passes.  (See Robert's Rules of Order.  :-)
> 
> Two whole minutes.  My we are generous.  Good thing we achieved a quorum 
> during that two minutes.

It would have been faster, but the sendmail queue was a little long at that
point.  :-)

(A call for Unanimous Concent usually takes less than 10 seconds, and is
broken with a single dissenting grumble.)

> This might be a good time to point out that no one has picked up the 
> chopsticks for Monday 1/10/100.

Well, since you mentioned it first, what sounds good to you?

> But maybe we won't have to worry about it because "civilization as we know 
> it" is going to end at 5am EST next Friday when the first of at least 32 
> distinct timezones (Kiribati at GMT + 14) rolls over.

32 timezones for a rotation cycle that takes ~23:56?  Hrm...

Z.

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