Re: IDL and time in Northern New Mexico

Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Sun, 15 Dec 1996 20:51:37 -0400

Richard Sullivan responds:

>Judy postulates:
>
>>Apparently my new power computer, dopey as it is, does at least one thing
>>remarkably -- foretell the future. Or perhaps there's some other
>>explanation for your "dateline" of Sunday Dec. 15, when it's only Saturday
>>around here?
>
>It's a Northern New Mexico secret. I guess it must be Roadrunner.com, my
>service provider. Santa Fe which has a 60,000 population has 8 local service
>providers. My own fought Warner Bros for the name and won. They had been
>using it for several years when Warner decided that "roadrunner" was theirs.
>There has been roadrunner this and that in this part of the country since
>Coronado went through.

There might be a much less complicated answer. All of the messages from
alt-photo go through Steve Avery who is over there in Austrialia in a ZD +
time zone on the other side of the International Date Line, about a full
day ahead of us here on the U. S. east coast. I saw the same thing on a
message from Judy about two weeks ago. I was reading her message dated
Sunday and there I was still back in Saturday. This really bothered me at
first because I had just gotten up and knew my last world experiences were
on Friday and to find myself suddenly in Sunday with no hang-over was a
reall bummer. Then I remembered the IDL and assumed the explanation was to
be found there.

What day is it now, anyway?

Sandy King