On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:15:18PM -0400, Alexx S Kay wrote:
> That's an overly strong statement. Just because neither Paarfi nor Vlad
> has mentioned that, for instance "the last hour of the day only has 53
> minutes and 27.23 seconds", that doesn't mean that it isn't so. Such a
> fact would be part of standard background knowledge and hence not worth
> mentioning unless it became a plot point for some reason.
As supporting arguement, note that when we talk about January, Feb, etc,
we don't call out the odd number of days from month to month and year to
year unless it's explicitly important.
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