Happy birthday Earth

Louis LeBlanc freebsd at keyslapper.org
Wed Oct 22 13:54:00 PDT 2003


On 10/22/03 01:08 PM, James Long sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:18:01AM -0700, Viktor Lazlo wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Charles Howse wrote:
> > 
> > > Here's an interesting anniversary from my daily calendar report...
> > >
> > > History:
> > > Oct 23 	Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
> > > Oct 23 	Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary
> > > Oct 23 	Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > This is "based" on biblical calculations.  James Ussher, Bishop of Armagh
> > worked it out as 8:00AM, October 22nd, BC 4004, and John Lightfoot of
> > Cambridge University adjusted it to 9:00AM, October 23, BC.
> 
> UTC?

ROFL!

Viktor, you're my hero!

L
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