[TexGuy]

... It ended precisely 11,711 years ago. ...

Yeah, but at what time? See ya'll aren't so smart after all. ... *snicker*

[Vermont Lt]

I am not sure that I care about an exact date. Its just that when you are dealing with geologic issues, fast changes are not usually good for the people or animals on top of the geology.

[tet68]

Yeah, but at what time? See ya’ll aren’t so smart after all. ... *snicker*

Oh, probably Ice Age Saving Time.
Spring forword, fall back...11,711 years.

[Publius6961]

Now, if I wanted to be one of those ponderous scientific people, and "let on" to prove what had occurred in the remote past by what had occurred in a given time in the recent past, or what will occur in the far future by what has occurred in late years, what an opportunity is here! Geology never had such a chance, nor such exact data to argue from! Nor "development of species," either! Glacial epochs are great things, but they are vague--vague. Please observe:--

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter XVII (Pg 209)