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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Daylight savings time
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Date: 29 Oct 90 19:26:54 GMT
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I went around to all my clocks to change to standard time and what do you
know, my NeXT had already changed!  One of the advantages of having a
Unix machine, I suppose.

I've always wondered, however, why it is that my NeXT and my PC, and most
any other multi-thousand dollar machine can't keep time better than your
average $5 digital watch?  My NeXT loses about a minuteweek, and my PC
gains about a minute every two weeks.  My Casio digital watch loses about
a minute every five months!  And it's not just that watch.

Mark Adler
madlerpiglet.caltech.edu