[Info-vax] Time change

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:39:58 UTC, David J Dachtera 
<djesys.no at spam.comcast.net> wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:09:32 UTC, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mar 23, 9:34 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > > > In article <dc33efc8-076e-4e5f-89d7-0a003881e... at j38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
> > > >         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mar 22, 12:43 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.  Actually, they schedule their life around
> > > > >> > when the cows need to be milked and changing the clock doesn't really
> > > > >> > affect the cow much.
> > > >
> > > > >>    Guess again.  The milk truck comes according to the clock, whether
> > > > >>    the cows have been milked or not.
> > > > > Milk truck? I haven't seen one since the 60s!
> > > >
> > > > Must be a city boy.  How did you think the milk got from the dairy farm
> > > > to the milk processing plant?  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?

Oh yes. That's what I see every day. Not as prevalent as they were, 
but..

-- 
Bob Eager