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- From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
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- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Message-ID: <24571@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 07:26:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.171359.25608@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- Douglas W O'Neal (doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec22.153918.3708@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> norm@bnr.ca writes:
- : ->In article <1992Dec21.110331.1346@muppet.bt.co.uk>, bret@muppet.bt.co.uk (Bret Giddings) writes:
- : ->|> What! another clock for wimps. I use a real clock, one that displays the number
- : ->|> of seconds since Jan 1st 1970.
- : ->This is starting to sound like the "We were *so* poor..." skit from Monty
- : ->Python. BTW, (let's see what I can come up with), *I* use the number of seconds
- : ->since Jan 1, 1970 but in Greenwich Mean Time :-)
- :
- : *I* use the number of seconds since Nov 17, 1858. (I can't help it, I was
- : raised on VMS and UN*X time doesn't come naturally to me.)
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- Oh yeah? MY clock counts from January 1, 4713 B.C. (start of the
- astronomical Julian calendar)
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- Merry 2448982!
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- Bill Neisius
- bill@solaria.hac.com
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