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- From: sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman)
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- Subject: Re: Binary clock for X Windows.
- Message-ID: <sherman.726017056@foster>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:24:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.133853.9806@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec23.150133.6141@ericsson.se> <TPAQUETTE.92Dec23093654@gumby.ita.lgc.com> <1992Dec23.170810.24300@src.honeywell.com>
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- In <1992Dec23.170810.24300@src.honeywell.com> englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart) writes:
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- >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!
-
- But you are not having real fun telling time until you display as an
- animated 3d random-dot stereogram an old fashion analog co-co-clock with a
- bird that flies out at you at the top of the hour with animated figures
- marching around!
-
- And when I'm at home, I have a huge pendulum hanging over a large circle
- in the floor, with the time marks around the edge, and the whole thing
- tracks the rotation of the earth. A lot of you may think this is nothing,
- but you should see the small portable one that I carry around with me! Keeps
- perfect time.
-
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