[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 84, Issue 25

[brent evers]

I've actually found the separate mechanical and digital displays quite
useful.  I spent a lot of time on science vessels and would set one to
"science time" (GMT) and the other to what ever timezone we happened
to be adhering to for daily operations, which can vary quite a bit
when you are working near the poles.

Brent

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:58 PM, David I. Emery <die at dieconsulting.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:11:34AM -0700, Burt I. Weiner wrote:
>> Being in broadcast I need to know what time it is. I wear a wrist
>> watch with real hands on it so I can tell what time it is.  For a
>> wrist watch, I personally don't care for a digital readout.  I grew
>> up with a wrist watch that had real hands and I learned to tell time
>> and how much time I had simply by looking at the position of the
>> hands, I didn't have to do any math at all in my head.   All that I
>> need to know, for example, is that I need to be somewhere in 3/4 of a
>> turn of the big hand.  In my case I don't always need precision time,
>> I deal with that separately.
>
>        I actually wear an 80s AE-20W Casio watch that has both
> synthetic LCD hands on a clockface and a normal digital time display.
> The LCD hands are sync'd with the digital display - unlike some hybrids
> where a mechanical type movement driven by a step pulse was combined
> with a digital time/stopwatch/alarm display that had no other connection
> to it other than a common timebase.
>
>
>
> --
>  Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die at dieconsulting.com  DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493
> "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten
> 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in
> celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either."
>
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