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- From: huttar@hp750.itg.ti.com (Lars Huttar)
- Subject: Well MY clock ...
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- In-Reply-To: mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:38:53 GMT
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:13:51 GMT
- References: <24571@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec23.133853.9806@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.
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- You're all pansies... mine just displays nanoseconds since the Big Bang --
- modulo 3!
-
- (Apologies for posting non-source.)
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- Lars Huttar 3
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