UTC: Universal Time, Centralized
The time at the center of the Earth.
Advantages:
Eliminates a vestige of British imperialism.
Does away nicely with leap seconds, too.
Disadvantage:
Geocentric.
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Picture and text from Facebook group At the Controls. This 1970 photo shows Bill Gosper using the MIT AI Lab 's PDP-6 and D...
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;;;; pi-digits.cl -*- mode: lisp; -*- ;;; Illustrate a curio about the first 40 (decimal) digits of π. ;;; Time-stamp: <2025-07-22 16:52...
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;;;; -*- mode: lisp -*- ;;; Explore the performance of 'naive' ratio addition. ;;; Evaluate (time-addition 17000) ;;; to compare tha...
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