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   The Starmaker to All   
   Re: Should we synchronize clocks   
   06 Oct 25 15:03:29   
   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Mon, 06 Oct 25 12:47:23 +0000, Python    
   wrote:   
      
   >Le 06/10/2025 à 14:37, Maciej Wo?niak a écrit :   
   >> On 10/6/2025 12:54 PM, Python wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> Make up your mind. You wrote that clocks are stopwatches once.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A lie. And a slander. As expected   
   >>>> from a piece of relativistic shit.   
   >>>   
   >>> "Physics never understood what a clock is and was always mistaking it   
   >>> with a stopwatch."   
   >>>   
   >>> "It [a clock]'s a stopwatch which is providing an interval."   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm quoting you Maciej.   
   >>   
   >> Almost. I wrote that it's a stopwatch [not   
   >> a clock] which is generating intervals,   
   >> and anyway nothing similar to "clocks are   
   >> stopwatches" here. So, you're lying and   
   >> slandering, as expected from a piece of   
   >> relativistic shit.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>>> But you wrote that clocks are stopwatches after all.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A lie. And a slander. As expected   
   >>>> from a piece of relativistic shit.   
   >>>   
   >>> "Physics never understood what a clock is and was always mistaking it   
   >>> with a stopwatch."   
   >>>   
   >>> "It [a clock]'s a stopwatch which is providing an interval."   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm quoting you Maciej.   
   >>   
   >> Almost. I wrote that it's a stopwatch [not   
   >> a clock] which is generating intervals,   
   >> and anyway nothing similar to "clocks are   
   >> stopwatches" here. So, you're lying and   
   >> slandering, as expected from a piece of   
   >> relativistic shit.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>> [snip idiotic rant]   
   >>   
   >> By "idiotic rant" you mean "timestamps   
   >> and datetimes are not intervals" I guess.   
   >> You know, I've made an experiment. I've   
   >> wrote on my pg console "select now()::interval".   
   >> Can you guess what the result was, poor stinker?   
   >>   
   >> No answer? Another "snip idiotic rant"?   
   >> Of course.   
   >   
   >Oh dear... You didn't notice that now() is equal to the interval between   
   >"00-00-0000 00:00:00" and current time?   
   >   
   >*facepalm*   
   >   
   >I would really loved to see pieces of code you've ever written, if any :-)   
   >   
      
   Here's a piece of code I wrote:   
      
   print("Hello, World!")   
      
      
   No, you tell me what language I used...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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