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Author: James GilesJames Giles Date: Jun 20, 2008 17:34
Apropos of nothing in particular, but is it only in the US the
the day traditionally called "Midsummer's Day" is called the
"Official first day of Summer"? Who is this official? In what
government does he or she serve and in what capacity? How
do I vote against this official? :-)
--
J. Giles
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies."
-- C. A. R. Hoare
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" -- E. W. Dijkstra
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Author: TerenceTerence Date: Jun 20, 2008 19:06
And I just got "Father's Day" congratualitions from a son and close
friends in the USA.
In Australia, it's totally a different day.
And I suppose Europe may use another.
At least the soltices can't be argued with, at least not since they
built the new Stonehenge computer...
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Author: robert.corbettrobert.corbett Date: Jun 20, 2008 19:18
On Jun 20, 5:34 pm, "James Giles" worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Apropos of nothing in particular, but is it only in the US the
> the day traditionally called "Midsummer's Day" is called the
> "Official first day of Summer"? Who is this official? In what
> government does he or she serve and in what capacity? How
> do I vote against this official? :-)
Neither the government of the United States of America nor the
International Astronomical Union officially designate the summer
solstice the "first day of summer."
Bob Corbett
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Author: e p chandlere p chandler Date: Jun 20, 2008 20:05
On Jun 20, 8:34 pm, "James Giles" worldnet.att.net> wrote:> Apropos of nothing in particular, but is it only in the US the
> the day traditionally called "Midsummer's Day" is called the
> "Official first day of Summer"? Who is this official? In what
> government does he or she serve and in what capacity? How
> do I vote against this official? :-)
>
> --
> J. Giles
>
> "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
> design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
> no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
> that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare
>
> "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" -- E. W. Dijkstra
Here in (lower) Michigan there are only two seasons: Winter and Road
Construction. :-). Happy Solstice.
- e
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Author: ttw6687ttw6687 Date: Jun 20, 2008 20:24
Days are getting shorte; winter's comming.
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Author: nospamnospam Date: Jun 20, 2008 21:06
e p chandler juno.com> wrote:
> Here in (lower) Michigan there are only two seasons: Winter and Road
> Construction. :-). Happy Solstice.
When I was visiting northern Montana a few years ago, the variant I
heard was that they did have four seasons: almost winter, winter, still
winter, and road construction.
--
Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
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Author: David FlowerDavid Flower Date: Jun 21, 2008 06:43
On Jun 21, 1:34�am, "James Giles" worldnet.att.net> wrote:> Apropos of nothing in particular, but is it only in the US the
> the day traditionally called "Midsummer's Day" is called the
> "Official first day of Summer"? �Who is this official? �In what
> government does he or she serve and in what capacity? �How
> do I vote against this official? �:-)
>
> --
> J. Giles
>
> "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
> design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
> no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
> that there are no obvious deficiencies." � -- �C. A. R. Hoare
>
> "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" �-- E. W. Dijkstra
In England the two best days of the year are Christmas and Summer!
Dave Flower
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Author: Arjen MarkusArjen Markus Date: Jun 23, 2008 01:05
On 21 jun, 04:06, Terence cantv.net> wrote:> And I just got "Father's Day" congratualitions from a son and close
> friends in the USA.
> In Australia, it's totally a different day.
> And I suppose Europe may use another.
> At least the soltices can't be argued with, at least not since they
> built the new Stonehenge computer...
I think it is even worse: Holland and Belgium seem to use
different sundays to celibrate "Mother's Day" and "Father's Day" ...
And that is only a small part of Europe :).
Regards,
Arjen
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Author: John HarperJohn Harper Date: Jun 22, 2008 16:16
>And I just got "Father's Day" congratualitions from a son and close
>friends in the USA.
>In Australia, it's totally a different day.
>And I suppose Europe may use another.
>At least the soltices can't be argued with, at least not since they
>built the new Stonehenge computer...
If you mean Stonehenge Aotearoa, that's in NZ so its June solstice is
the winter solstice.
-- John Harper, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
e-mail john.harper@ vuw.ac.nz phone (+64)(4)463 6780 fax (+64)(4)463 5045
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Author: TerenceTerence Date: Jun 27, 2008 15:18
>>And I just got "Father's Day" congratualitions from a son and close
>>friends in the USA.
>>In Australia, it's totally a different day.
>>And I suppose Europe may use another.
>>At least the soltices can't be argued with, at least not since they
>>built the new Stonehenge computer...
>
> If you mean Stonehenge Aotearoa, that's in NZ so its June solstice is
> the winter solstice.
>
> -- John Harper, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
> Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
> e-mail john.har...@ vuw.ac.nz phone (+64)(4)463 6780 fax (+64)(4)463 5045
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