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- From: etljmme@etlxd30.ericsson.se (Jim)
- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150133.6141@ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
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- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- References: <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:01:33 GMT
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- 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.
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