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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:34:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzrKA8.77I@NeoSoft.com>
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- References: <1992Dec23.150133.6141@ericsson.se> <TPAQUETTE.92Dec23093654@gumby.ita.lgc.com> <1992Dec23.170810.24300@src.honeywell.com>
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- In article <1992Dec23.170810.24300@src.honeywell.com> englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart) writes:
- > In article <TPAQUETTE.92Dec23093654@gumby.ita.lgc.com> tpaquette@ita.lgc.com (Trevor Paquette) writes:
- > >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.
- > > HA! My clock actually displays the current astronomical sky and I have to
- > > figure out the time from the star patterns and placements!
- >
- > HA! My clock actually displays the current astronomical sky from a random
- > location in the galaxy, and I have to figure out the time from the star
- > patterns and placements!
-
- Well, I started to make a clock from one of those "build a working paper
- clock" books, but I got carried away. It's now a complete working paper
- Analytical Engine, and I run an 80386 simulator on that. I'm booting 386BSD
- now, and in a couple of years when it comes up I'll have Xclock running.
- I don't think it's going to keep very good time, though... I keep getting
- silo overflows reading WWV at 110 baud. I guess I'll need to build a paper
- 16550 to fix that.
-
- Which Xclock should I use?
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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