[ale] erasing a hard drive

[Jim Kinney]

In Ethiopia the day begins at dawn which of course varies slightly
throughout the year.
Yeah. Policy made by non-scientists that pertain to science.
On Aug 27, 2011 10:27 AM, "Mike Harrison" <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> As astounding as it may seem, yes, even policy writers are bound by
natural
>> law.
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>> Even the ones who try and legislate pi to be exactly 3.
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> I'm currently dealing with a (foreign) legal system that is defining:
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> The last day of the month at exactly midnight, as the last timestamp of
> the day, and they want data readings timestamped '2011-09-01 00:00:00' to
> be what they think of as '2011-08-31 00:00:00' not groking that is the
> begining of that day, not the end of it.. at least as far as the OS
> (Linux of course) and MySQL are concerned.
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> mysql> select date_add('2011-08-31 23:59:55',interval 5 second) ;
> +---------------------------------------------------+
> | date_add('2011-08-31 23:59:55',interval 5 second) |
> +---------------------------------------------------+
> | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 |
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> Which makes it the first day of the next month.
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> Lawyers and Politicians. Yyyeeeaaahhhh...
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