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From: jad@dayton.UUCP (J. Deters)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: NBS time broadcast
Message-ID: <6680@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 21:00:57 GMT
References: <3799@ncar.ucar.edu> <723@lopez.UUCP>
Reply-To: jad@dayton.UUCP (J. Deters)
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In article <723@lopez.UUCP> flash@lopez.UUCP (Gary Bourgois) writes:
[article on synchronizing clocks deleted]
>
>Do all the clocks in your house with WWV...  There is nothing so nifty as
>seeing the VCR, Microwave, Wristwatch, Computer display, etc all blink over
>at the same second.  (however, after a few days, varying factors will cause
>them to go out of synch, and it will drive you insane...)

Reminds me of a [supposedly] Confucius proverb:

  Man with one watch always knows what time it is.
  Man with two watches is never sure.

-j
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J. Deters - jad@dayton.DHDSC.MN.ORG
"I'll tell you what kind of guy I was.  If you ordered a boxcar full of
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