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- From: markus@octavia.anu.edu.au (Markus Buchhorn)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 23:41:11 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University, Canberra
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- References: <1992Dec18.234851.27117@enea.se> <1992Dec21.110331.1346@muppet.bt.co.uk> <1992Dec22.153918.3708@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> <1992Dec22.171359.25608@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Douglas W O'Neal) and norm@bnr.ca and
- bret@muppet.bt.co.uk (Bret Giddings) all wrote
- >
- > ->|> 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.)
- >
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- Ye gods - it must be the silly season, otherwise I would NEVER followup :-)
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- Anyway, I use SIDEREAL ("astronomical") time, in base 3.
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- Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, Best wishes to the rest.
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- Markus Buchhorn, Parallel Computing Research Facility
- email = markus@octavia.anu.edu.au
- Australian National University, I-Block, PO Box 4, Canberra, 2601, Australia.
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- Markus Buchhorn, Parallel Computing Research Facility
- email = markus@octavia.anu.edu.au
- Australian National University, I-Block, PO Box 4, Canberra, 2601, Australia.
- [International = +61 6, Australia = 06] [Phone = 2492930, Fax = 2490747]
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