From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:42:34 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1264950754.1692.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001310236.28596.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 02:36 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 30 January 2010 06:13:16 Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"?
>
> "The present; the moment we're existing in."
>
> More profound: what does "time" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"?
Simple! "time" refers to the common labels (days, hours, etc) that we
have attempted to put on the changing (or decaying) nature of our
environment. ie. how many hours passed the rising of the sun.
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana!
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-30 2:32 [gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND Frank Steinmetzger
2010-01-30 6:13 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-01-31 2:12 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-01-31 15:06 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-01-31 2:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-01-31 15:12 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
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