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- From: mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. McCoy)
- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Loral Space Information Systems
- References: <24571@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:38:53 GMT
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- 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)
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- OH YEAH??? My clock counts seconds backwards from Star Date 938943.1299,
- the second coming of Jesus.
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