[Info-vax] Time change

[David J Dachtera]

Bob Eager wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:09:32 UTC, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 23, 9:34Â pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > > In article <dc33efc8-076e-4e5f-89d7-0a003881e... at j38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
> > > Â  Â  Â  Â  AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Mar 22, 12:43Â pm, koeh... at spock.koehler.athome.net wrote:
> > > >> In article <71ohdoFmdek... at mid.individual.net>, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> > >
> > > >> > I don't know any that don't. Â Actually, they schedule their life around
> > > >> > when the cows need to be milked and changing the clock doesn't really
> > > >> > affect the cow much.
> > >
> > > >> Â  Â Guess again. Â The milk truck comes according to the clock, whether
> > > >> Â  Â the cows have been milked or not.
> > > > Milk truck? I haven't seen one since the 60s!
> > >
> > > Must be a city boy. Â How did you think the milk got from the dairy farm
> > > to the milk processing plant? Â Long pipeline from the milking machine?
> >
> > Central NJ. I recall as a kid that we would get milk delivered to our
> > home. They'd drop it off in a box by the back door. Guernsey milk, I
> > believe. The bubbles from shaking it were fun.
> 
> We can still get milk delivered here in the UK. I see the delivery
> vehicles every day!

When I was in Hants back in 1984, I saw battery-powered vehicles called
"milk floats". Are those still around?

D.J.D.