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Article #1322Re: Backward Clocks (was Re: Grace Hopper)
From: d85... Kai-Mikael J-Aro
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 10:38
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 10:38
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In article <5...@unicorn.WWU.EDU> n874...@unicorn.WWU.EDU (Matthew Skinner) writes:
>Our main terminal room has one synchronized clock, and one generic one.
>Since they rarely tell the same time anyway, I have been considering
>modifying the other to run backwards. Should cause a few missed classes.
I sat hacking one day and glanced at the (synchronized) clock on the
terminal room wall: a quarter to four, OK.
I added a few lines to my code and then looked at the clock again: it
was an hour later! I almost had a heart attack before I realized the
clock had just been set to daylight saving time. For a few seconds I
really believed I'd been trapped in a time warp! ;-)--
Kai-Mikael J{{-Aro d85...@nada.kth.se
"You know how Einstein had bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even WORSE!"
- Calvin
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Subject: Re: Backward Clocks (was Re: Grace Hopper)
Keywords: shaded pole motor clock
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Date: 21 Feb 90 10:38:24 GMT
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