News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Swatch Internet Time. Parent comment

Re:Swatch Internet Time by joezydeco on Monday January 13, 2014 @10:03AM (#7050909)
I thought we were talking about the "arbitrary" choice of Longitude 0. What's the political (and not economic) basis for the later IDL modifications?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Swatch Internet Time by Aloha on Monday January 13, 2014 @05:35PM (#7054025)
That fails to make the first choice any less arbitrary - the choice was made to line up with existing sea charts - which of course used the Greenwich as 0 - but Greenwich as 0 was an arbitrary choice in the first place - not all arbitrary choices are bad ones, that was the crux of my argument in the first place.
[ Parent | on HN ]