DMD 0.175 release [OT]

[Kristian Kilpi]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:56:11 +0200, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:53:35 -0800, Kristian Kilpi <kjkilpi at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:01:34 +0200, Tom <tom at nospam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>> Tom wrote:
>>>>>> Wow, a million bugfixes and a very nice feature... it seems that  
>>>>>> you didn't saw the sunlight for quite some time. Thank you.
>>>>>  This time of year, there is little sunlight. Nothing to do but work!
>>>>
>>>> Oh, I always forget that you people in the North don't have sunlight  
>>>> during this time of the year. Here, in Argentina, it's getting hotter  
>>>> every minute. God bless air conditioning :D
>>>>
>>>> -- Tom;
>>>
>>> You...! ;)
>>>
>>> Here in Finland is indeed pretty dark most of the day. Well, it should  
>>> be winter,
>
> How are the seasons defined over there?  Here in Britain, by the  
> standard definition the seasons begin on their respective equinoxes and  
> solstices.
>

I didn't know that, interesting. :)

We don't have the standard definitions here, or at least I'm not heard of  
them (or anyone I know of). The feather (nature) itself defines the  
seasons. The translations are quite clear normally. Of course, when I look  
out of a window now, it looks like autumn. Or if the sun is shining, it  
looks like spring. I think one can (usually) say that it's "officially"  
winter when the first snow is rain. Of course, it's not uncommon that the  
first snow will melt though, or a couple of next ones.

It's summer when snow is melted, lakes too (we have a *lot* of lakes in  
Finland), and the temperature is pretty high (about 15-25'C). Spring is  
when snow is melting (when trees have new leaves, it's already summer;  
some bushes can have leaves in spring though), and autumn when trees turn  
yellow and red (and finally drop their leaves). Heh, I looked a dictionary  
for that, and it said "forest glowing with autumn tints" or "glowing  
autumn forest". No single word for it, huh?



>>> but currently my thermometer shows +10 degrees of Celsius (it should  
>>> rather be showing -10 degrees). No snow in the ground, and water is  
>>> raining. In October we had pretty much snow (10-30cm), but this month  
>>> has been so warm that even lakes in southern Finland are not frozen  
>>> anymore.
>
> Sounds like an "Indian summer" as we sometimes call it over here. Except  
> that 10°C here in England at this time is by no means exceptional - it  
> would probably need to be at least 16°C to qualify.
>

Hey that's funny, I call a summer of exceptionally high temperatures as an  
"indian summer". But I did some checking (the net is handy), and it seems  
that I have been 'misinformed' about that. :) Ok, "a warm period after the  
cold autumn season has begun", got it.