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Old 03-11-2020, 03:59 PM   #751
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Jay Leno & Dennis Gage

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Yeah, I watch a lot of car stuff.
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Old 03-21-2020, 02:53 PM   #752
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Old 03-22-2020, 01:56 PM   #753
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TIL about how the term hackneyed came to be. I figured it was related to Hackney in London somehow, and knew of hackney horses and that London cabs are called hackney carriages/cabs...

Turns out it is related to those.... they became so commonplace (and worn?) that they term hackneyed came into use to describe that concept.

there are many sites with this info, here are two

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hac1.htm
http://www.word-detective.com/2015/10/hackneyed/

Not an amazing discovery, granted, but someone might find it interesting
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Old 03-22-2020, 02:41 PM   #754
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I was in the Hackney business for many years, and I learned something.
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Old 03-22-2020, 08:03 PM   #755
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You was a hack?
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Old 03-22-2020, 08:17 PM   #756
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I also learned what zulu time was and why it was called that.
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Old 03-22-2020, 10:18 PM   #757
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So she says at 222017QMAR20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date-t...ate_Time_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ary_time_zones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC−04:00

https://www.timetemperature.com/tzmi/annarbor.shtml

I still date checks I write with the shortened date only form (e.g. 22MAR20).
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Old 03-22-2020, 10:50 PM   #758
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Timestamps must be sortable

so I say at 20200322225015
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Old 03-22-2020, 11:08 PM   #759
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Did you Google that string?
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Old 03-22-2020, 11:10 PM   #760
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So she says at 222017QMAR20.

I still date checks I write with the shortened date only form (e.g. 22MAR20).
tut tut. someone could add 2 digits after the 20 to change the date.....
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Old 03-22-2020, 11:14 PM   #761
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It would be rejected in that format.

BTW, the military DTG is arranged so the info therein deemed most important to military operations comes first in case that part of the message gets cut off.
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Old 03-23-2020, 02:51 PM   #762
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Q?
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Old 03-23-2020, 03:32 PM   #763
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"Q" is the military time zone. There are 24 time zones designated A-Z excepting "I" and "O" so as not to be confused with numbers "1" and "0" respectively.

Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) during Daylight Savings Time (DST), when monster posted, and transitions from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) -5 to GMT -4 or "R" to "Q" in military "Z" (Zulu) Time. GMT never changes to DST.

Universal Time Coordinated/Universal Coordinated Time (UTC/UCT) is the successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) a.k.a. military “Zulu” Time. The terms represent the same time zone; but, with different implications in various countries.

The Cellar displays the GMT offset at the bottom of the page.

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Old 03-23-2020, 03:48 PM   #764
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Didn't know about the Q zone.

I thank you.
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Old 03-23-2020, 11:01 PM   #765
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about untouchable numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable_number

I just haven't figured out why they're special or needed a name
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