Hi all,

>>> "Childress,Eric" <[log in to unmask]> 27/01/04 13:52:05 >>>
> Silence may be reasonably assumed to be affirmation.

This seems reasonable to me - it's probably easier to not have to do
anything unless you have something to say!  However I would like to
suggest that a time period is always included, eg. "I'm looking for
comments by x date", otherwise it's not clear how long to listen to the
silence before you can assume everyone agrees!  And also it's easy for
anyone to suggest the timeframe is too short if they need more time to
consider...

um, I won't say here that it looks OK to me because that would be
breaking the silence that indicates that it looks OK to me ;-)

On a different tack I stumbed [as you do] across the following
introduction to various calendars in use
(Gregorian/Hebrew/Islamic/Indian/Chinese/Julian).  I found this quite
eye-opening having really only ever been aware of our Common
Era/Gregorian calendar.  This may be useful for work item 1e
(representation of non-Gregorian dates).

Reprint of "Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac", P.
Kenneth Seidelmann, editor, at:
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html

Douglas