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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: When is the Sabbath? --or-- the TOTAL prayer experience: CONSTANTLY!
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Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 16:49:55 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 10 16:49:55 1985
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Summary: 

In article <310@mhuxm.UUCP> abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles) writes:
>If a person were to keep local time in space, a day (where the term day
>means the period of time from one sunrise or sunset to another) could
>be shorter than 3 minutes.

Previously, space flights operated on Houston time.  I don't think this
has changed on shuttle missions, but even if it has, it has changed to
operate on someone else's 24 hour day (maybe the local time of the
launch or landing site?).  This makes issues of calendar easy to resolve.
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		Ken Arnold
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Of COURSE we can implement your algorithm.  We've got this Turing
machine emulator...