Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection

From: William Levak <wlevak_at_SDF.ORG>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:52:48 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1404221645580.25376@faeroes.freeshell.org>
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:

> Good that in the aviation people at least eventually stopped using the
   utterly stupid invention called timezones and adopted one common
   standard of time measurement..

Time zones were invented by the railroads to eliminate confusion.
Prior to that, noon was when the sun was directly overhead wherever you 
were.  That was OK if you were a farmer, but the railroads could not even 
make a simple schedule because everyone was on a different time.


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