RE THIS 0.0. 15/30 BUSINESS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 64, 13 April 1943, Page 4

RE THIS 0.0. 15/30 BUSINESS

►y r > —l come to you as a last resource in the hope that you may l.rj able to assist me in my en-» deavour to work out the time from this new 0.0.18,0.0. methods; now in use by the broadcasting stations. Can you do it? I don't want any theories.. I want to know exactly. If it is too deep for you, as it is for me and everyone else I have met, please say so straight out, for then we both might take up the together. I feel .this inability to work out the time very keenly. I am an old man, and like all other ancients, like to check up on my clocks periodically throughout the 24 hours. As it. is now, lam stonkered. Times are not what they used to be. In the good old days the arn nouncer simply said that the time was 25 minutes past 4—and mark you, without even adding A.M. or P.M.—I knew exactly how my clocks stood In addition, I liked the omission of the A.M. and P.M. for I tlbofc it as a compliment, and fe.lt happy in the thought that the announcer considered that II knew whether it was morning, afternoon, day or night. But I have been living in a fooKJfc paradise. The compliment I had hoped was there-^wasn't. I see now that, he has always treated my mental ability with roservations, and is now, in his own way trj'ing to make the process simpler. I simply cannot get the drift of all these o.os and strings of figures. I have a hazy idea that the working out of the time, is simply a mixture of arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, logarithms, parabolical calculations topped off with a little ballistics and bits of the third dimension. Does he take me for the handmaiden of Sir Isaac Newton or the mathmatical adviser to Einstein? It may be easy for him, and by the way he rolls it off his tongue, I think it is; but for me it leaves me prostrated. As for working out the times of a whole programme in 0.0. 14, 13, 0 terms—well the solutionis,t is not of this world, or if he is, he soon won't be. So why does he. try and. force upon me this Herculean task, which I say is manifestly unjust. I only trust he reads this pr/jtest and hope that he breaks his umbrella. Yours etc.. , NON TEMPUS SCIO-