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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Good historical content, but I have a question:

Shouldn't the title read "Real Time - 70 years" instead of "Real Time + 70 years"?

As in real time is "right now", 2008, and if we wanted to "go back" to 1938 we'd need to "subtract" real time, as in "minus", or "-"?

Conversely, if we were to add time (+) to "right now", 2008, we'd find ourselves in 2078, in the middle of a robot war with terminators and stuff.

3 posted on 06/05/2008 5:39:27 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: OKSooner
Shouldn't the title read "Real Time - 70 years" instead of "Real Time + 70 years"?

Here is how I look at it. Your reply was posted at 5:39:27 AM PST. Was that not the real time? It is now about 6:37 AM PST. With respect to your reply that is real time + 58 minutes. For more information, see my tagline.

5 posted on 06/05/2008 6:38:29 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
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