What we, errr, no not we... What *I* actually need is a button on my watch
that sets * everyone else's * clocks back so that I have more time to get
the work done...

Hmmm... if I make a very cheap, internet connected, PIC based clock in many
different packages and give it away for years until only Newton clocks are
still in service, then send the broadcast ping with the "set back" command
when I really need it...

...of course, there is still that pesky rotation of the earth and the
vibration of the atoms in the atomic clocks... details, details.

...if I always do a "set forward" during the boring part of a day that I did
the "set back" would anyone notice?

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Alice Campbell
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 13:42
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT]:Re: [EE]:GOTO Re:{OOT]: why set clocks wrong ?!


Because reality is relative.  literalists.  hmmmph.  ...and
why cant 'they' make a watch with a 'TURBO' mode so i can set
it ahead to turbo when i have got leave work in time to pick
up the kid at 6:00 or face $1/minute fine, and reset with a
single push to 'real' time otherwise.

alice

> In all this Kafkaesque thread there is only one thing that has remained
> unexplained imho: Why would anyone, for any reason, set a clock for a
> different time than present, and that as accurately as possible ? I mean,
> if you don't need the exact time, why not use a photograph of a clock set
> for some convenient time (pleasant memories etc) ? At least there is no
> need to wind it up and its batteries won't run down.
>
> just curious,
>
> Peter
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