redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (0)
Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote 2002-08-05 07:52 pm (UTC)

Rather.

Metric time, in the middle of a Worldcon, when everyone's sense of time has gone off to Elf Hill?

Suddenly I mind less that I can't afford to go to Worldcon.

Yes, it's a dot, not a colon. When did the British stop using 10.5 to mean five minutes after ten? (I know that one from Dorothy Sayers, novels written in the 1930s.)

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