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  Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back 
  Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back 
  Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back 
  Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology 
  Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology   
  Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back 
  Shrinking directories
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  Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology 


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Date: 1 Nov 2009 08:42:36 -0500 From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back Message-ID: <hck38c$1l8$1@panix2.panix.com> Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote: > > You may also get the time by tuning your HF radio to 2.5, 3.330, 5, > 10, or 15 MHz, or by looking at your CDMA phone. If you want > accurate time, EndRun Technologies sells a number of devices which > can derive an accurate UTC timebase from the CDMA network. (My NTP > stratum-1 at the office is driven by an EndRun Praecis Ct, since > discontinued, which works quite nicely despite being in the middle > of the fourth floor of a nine-story building.) These all give you GMT time, which you have to convert to local time using some algorithm. Unfortunately that algorithm changed a few years ago; my parents have a couple appliances which automatically reset their time to adjust for daylight savings, but they do so on the old dates and not the current ones. I commend everyone to listen to Grandpa Jones' song on the subject. "I twisted my old clock around 'till it ain't worth a dime. I just don't understand this daylight savings time." --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:07:41 +0000 (UTC) From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back Message-ID: <hcktat$2lsb$2@grapevine.csail.mit.edu> In article <hck38c$1l8$1@panix2.panix.com>, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote: >These all give you GMT time, which you have to convert to local time >using some algorithm. No, actually, they give you UTC. GMT is only used in the United Kingdom (and even there most sources which claim to report GMT are actually reporting UTC). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft wollman@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:06:10 -0500 From: T <kd1s.nospam@cox.nospam.net> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back Message-ID: <MPG.2557ec72aa29f466989bda@news.eternal-september.org> In article <hck38c$1l8$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com says... > > Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote: > > > > You may also get the time by tuning your HF radio to 2.5, 3.330, 5, > > 10, or 15 MHz, or by looking at your CDMA phone. If you want > > accurate time, EndRun Technologies sells a number of devices which > > can derive an accurate UTC timebase from the CDMA network. (My NTP > > stratum-1 at the office is driven by an EndRun Praecis Ct, since > > discontinued, which works quite nicely despite being in the middle > > of the fourth floor of a nine-story building.) > > These all give you GMT time, which you have to convert to local time > using some algorithm. > > Unfortunately that algorithm changed a few years ago; my parents have > a couple appliances which automatically reset their time to adjust for > daylight savings, but they do so on the old dates and not the > current ones. > > I commend everyone to listen to Grandpa Jones' song on the subject. > "I twisted my old clock around 'till it ain't worth a dime. I just > don't understand this daylight savings time." > > --scott Yes I remember when the change was made. I was working at the RI Secretary of State's office and we had to run around and patch all the Windows boxes so they'd know the correct dates. Another example of political bovine effluent costing real money. One of the two phone systems (Had a Definity Prologix G3iV11 and a Dimension G3iV6 system) the Prologix had a nice little calendar feature where you could specify the dates for daylight saving time occurence. I guess this was because at the time Avaya wanted to market the switch to the world. I know it supported Italian E1 signalling too. The G3iV6 on the other hand had be manually reset. And the Audix system used a similar calendaring application to set the time change.
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:50:31 EST From: Wesrock@aol.com To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology Message-ID: <cd1.5e2ff8ec.381f0847@aol.com> In a message dated 10/31/2009 1:54:44 PM Central Standard Time, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes: > It used to be common for libraries to have directory collections, a > larger library would have a massive shelf of many cities and towns. > No more. I once looked up my distant realtives in the phone book from Bern, Switzerland, which had a great collection of phone books from around the world. As you say, no more. It was sometimes interesting the browse some phone books. The ones (5 volumes, I believe) from London, England, had a YP classificaiton for "motor enginers". After reading some of the ads, it seems that was the cusage for what we call auto repair shops. Wes Leatherock wesrock@aol.com wleathus@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:56:07 EST From: Wesrock@aol.com To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology Message-ID: <d3e.4dd31c96.381f0997@aol.com> In a message dated 10/31/2009 9:46:14 AM Central Standard Time, sam@coldmail.com writes: Adam H. Kerman wrote: >> Really? Legislators can outlaw printed matter by declaring it >> garbage? Shudder >> >> I have complained about the indexing of on line directories before, >> which is designed to throw the maximum amount of advertising in my >> face and NOT to fulfill my search request exactly as I typed in the >> parameters. >> >> There is no current on line directory service as useful as a printed >> phone directory. The useful ones aren't on line any more. > > Legislating the the LEC cannot distribute the directory except to > those subscribers who request it is hardly outlawing printed matter. > > Let's face it, in this case it's the LECs who are the culprits, not > the nanny legislator. The LEC knows putting a viable, searchable > directory on-line will cut into their overpriced 411 directory > service. > > Those white page directories are a horrible waste of paper and > resources for the vast majority of subscribers. > > The LECs don't want to admit the existence of the Internet. ;-) AT&T in Oklahoma City and several other cities have made white (residential) pages available only on request, and in fact they make it difficult to make such a request (the request must be made by telephone only, not by e-mail or U.S. mail, and presumably you have to wait in queue to make such a request. And they will not accept such a reuqest until the delivery of the Yellow Pages in that exchange is complete). Wes Leatherock wesrock@aol.com wleathus@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:18:18 GMT From: "Tony Toews \[MVP\]" <ttoews@telusplanet.net> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: In the US and Canada it's time to "fall" back Message-ID: <442se5phcs6v9eib49uo15aj1cfjpega16@4ax.com> wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) wrote: > Isn't it a bit ridiculous to call it "standard time" when it's only > observed for five months out of twelve? I think "winter time" would > be a more appropriate name. (Dunno if the moderator thinks this posting is excessively off topic but here you go anyhow.) (You're allowed - BH. {Apologies to he-who-greps}) A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/ "What I didn't appreciate, ... is the historical scholarship scribbled in the margins of this remarkable database, or document, or hybrid of the two. " .... "But look at the rules for Feb 9 1942 and Aug 14 1945. The letters are W and P instead of D and S. And the comments tell us that during that period there were timezones like Eastern War Time (EWT) and Eastern Peace Time (EPT). Arthur David Olson elaborates: " Tony
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:20:24 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Shrinking directories Message-ID: <317834.45656.qm@web52701.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I just noticed when "Dex" was left in my apartment building entrance that Dex yellow pages seem to be about the same size - ~2.5 inches thick - but the white pages continues to get smaller. My 2009-2010 white pages are a third the size of the same book issued in the fall of 2007: it's only about an inch thick. When I arrived in Seattle back in 1993 the size of the white pages was about the same size as the yellow pages ([as I said], ~2.5") I'm guessing this is due to people forgoing their wire line phones and going wireless. I haven't had wire line service for 7.5 years.
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:39:14 -0800 From: Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: Shrinking directories Message-ID: <hcld82$5nj$1@news.eternal-september.org> Joseph Singer wrote: > I just noticed when "Dex" was left in my apartment building entrance > that Dex yellow pages seem to be about the same size - ~2.5 inches > thick - but the white pages continues to get smaller. My 2009-2010 > white pages are a third the size of the same book issued in the fall > of 2007: it's only about an inch thick. > > When I arrived in Seattle back in 1993 the size of the white pages was > about the same size as the yellow pages ([as I said], ~2.5") I'm > guessing this is due to people forgoing their wire line phones and > going wireless. I haven't had wire line service for 7.5 years. There are more listings per page then in the past. -- The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2009 I Kill Spammers, Inc., A Rot in Hell. Co.
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:33:10 -0500 From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology Message-ID: <op.u2qxdkqho63xbg@acer250.gateway.2wire.net> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:19:46 -0400, Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com> wrote: > ... > AT&T has digital versions of their printed ones and [they] are showen > like the printed ones. > > http://www.realpageslive.com/guide That seems to be a Yellow Pages counterpart. For the White Pages, a substitute might be AT&T's http://www.anywho.com, which also has Reverse Lookup and Yellow Pages functionality. Cheers, -- tlvp -- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP
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