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- From: englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart)
- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- In-Reply-To: tpaquette@ita.lgc.com's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15: 36:54 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec23.150133.6141@ericsson.se> <TPAQUETTE.92Dec23093654@gumby.ita.lgc.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:08:10 GMT
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- In article <TPAQUETTE.92Dec23093654@gumby.ita.lgc.com> tpaquette@ita.lgc.com (Trevor Paquette) writes:
- >In article 9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov, mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. McCoy) writes:
- >>bill@solaria (Bill Neisius) writes:
- >>|>Douglas W O'Neal (doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu) wrote:
- >>|>:norm@bnr.ca writes:
- >>|>:->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.)
- >>|>Oh yeah? MY clock counts from January 1, 4713 B.C. (start of the
- >>|>astronomical Julian calendar)
- >>>OH YEAH??? My clock counts seconds backwards from Star Date 938943.1299,
- >>>the second coming of Jesus.
- >> Pah! Child's play. *My* clock sends pulses direct to a composite screen on my
- >>retina via electrodes crimped into my skull which receive sync from a transmitter
- >>on my Moulinex food processor.
- > HA! My clock actually displays the current astronomical sky and I have to
- > figure out the time from the star patterns and placements!
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- HA! My clock actually displays the current astronomical sky from a random
- location in the galaxy, and I have to figure out the time from the star
- patterns and placements!
-