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- From: sasmob@chewy.unx.sas.com (Mark Burhans)
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- Subject: Re: Well MY clock ...
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:35:28 GMT
- References: <24571@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <HUTTAR.92Dec23101351@hp750.itg.ti.com>
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- In article <HUTTAR.92Dec23101351@hp750.itg.ti.com>, huttar@hp750.itg.ti.com (Lars Huttar) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> You're all pansies... mine just displays nanoseconds since the Big Bang --
- |> modulo 3!
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- Uh-Oh! Not only are we babbling in a .sources, but we're babbling
- theology! Runaway! Runaway! :-)
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- |> (Apologies for posting non-source.)
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- MegaDittos.
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