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- From: scott@sdc.com (Scott Dunbar)
- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.164603.14477@sdc.com>
- Originator: scott@minnie
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- Organization: sdc
- References: <24571@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:46:03 GMT
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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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- May I assume that we all have way, way, _way_ too much time on our hands
- at this time of year?
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- Happy Holidays!!!
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