From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 13:08:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C00916A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.museum.rain.com (gw-ipinc.museum.rain.com [206.29.169.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF9F43FB1 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james_mapson@umpquanet.com) Received: from ns.museum.rain.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.museum.rain.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9MK8H4I064613; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@umpquanet.com) Received: (from james@localhost) by ns.museum.rain.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h9MK8CDK064612; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:08:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:08:12 -0700 From: James Long To: Viktor Lazlo Message-ID: <20031022200812.GA64583@ns.museum.rain.com> References: <002a01c3989e$e9a4c410$04fea8c0@moe> <20031022070251.N51615@njamn8or.bc.hsia.telus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031022070251.N51615@njamn8or.bc.hsia.telus.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on ns.museum.rain.com cc: Charles Howse cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Happy birthday Earth X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:08:36 -0000 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?