Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Emergency 2.0

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 6/6/02 at 6:58 PM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> Quoth Glotmorf,
>> 
>>> {{ _Glotmorf's R0E2.0 Refresh Prop_
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Set the Clock to nweek 17, nday 1.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> }} [[ End of Refresh Prop ]]
>> 
>> I would strongly advise against tinkering with the Clock.
>> 
>> "One nweek shall be defined to be 10 ndays, or the time between two
>> consecutive changes in the number of nweeks on The Clock."
>> 
>> That's gonna be blown to hell if the time between two consecutive changes
>> in
>> the number of nweeks on The Clock ceases to be 10 ndays.
> 
> No more so than if the Clock was restarted, say, tomorrow, with only one nday
> left before proposals were closed and the ballot was due.  At least two
> proposals that would be on the ballot have to do with the DimShip scam, and
> another two with the Gnome scam.

The problem is that we would have a rule that contradicted itself - it tries
to define the time between two consecutive changes in the number of nweeks
on The Clock as 10 ndays. I believe what will happen under your refresh prop
is that the nweek will end when the Clock changes from nday 4 to nday 5,
because that will have been 10 ndays from the end of the last nweek.

That's bad.

-- 
Wonko