>>But: here in Cochabamba, the local telephone company offers a "service", where you can call by phone to get the time. Problem #1: about 8 minutes ahead. Problem #2: since it's a highly reputed company, many people actualy use this time. Sigh.
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>>Hilmar.
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>At least you wouldn't be late relaing on that company. :)
Yes, but unfortunately it can work the other way, too: another person using the wrong time, and I, the time I insist is more trustworth (e.g., from
www.time.gov).
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
