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- From: doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Douglas W O'Neal)
- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.171359.25608@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Dec18.234851.27117@enea.se> <1992Dec21.110331.1346@muppet.bt.co.uk> <1992Dec22.153918.3708@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:13:59 GMT
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- 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 :-)
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- *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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