Re: [Sheflug] bbc opensource quiz

[Dave Page <grimoire [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:33:27PM +0000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> Craig Andrews  wrote:

> > Managed 6/7. Got the one about 1 billion seconds wrong :(

>     Tsk, tsk... I felt there was a problem with that question, as it
> did not specify the timezone. I chose randomly and got 7 :-) 

And yet there was only one answer which specified the correct number of
minutes past the hour - since timezones only affect hours, not minutes,
there was only one possible right answer.

Of course, perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1e9)' would have given you the
right number of minutes... but I knew anyway because I was up celebrating
the event.

I got the one about the game for the PDP-10 wrong. 6/7.

Dave
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