Re: OT: announcement

From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>

> I agree, the day starts when I get up and ends when I go to sleep; if
> I don't to go to sleep on a given night, the sunrise starts the next
> day.
> Still, there is a good reason for having the civil day start at
> midnight: the time period from noon to noon (and hence also the one
> from midnight to midnight) has the most consistent length throughout
> the year.  You get much wider variation in the sunrise-to-sunrise and
> sunset-to-sunset periods.
I've lost control of this one. I coined some words, which I thought were based on a
Swedish concept I thought was cool. I've forgotten the Swedish words, but "day"
and "night" were gelatinous (there are Swedish words for "day" and "night",
obviously) and I thought that'd be extra-cool to incorporate that with Japanese
"-haku", a measure for overnight stays at hotels. Still, G

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