[time-nuts] Personal time keeping...

[Ed Palmer]

Sounds like your friend is a customer for an anti-timenuts clock. :-)



Ed


Burt I. Weiner wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> In another post I spoke about spending a few days with a fellow from 
> DATUM.  A lot of our idle chit-chat was about accuracy in timing and 
> GPS vs.other off-air standards and propagation.  He told me about his 
> background in the military and precision measurements and about a 
> watch he used to have that displayed in GPS seconds - fascinating 
> stuffs.  I noticed that he wasn't wearing a watch and I commented on 
> that.  He told me that he'd spent a good part of his life knowing 
> precisely what time it was and still does the same thing in his work 
> at DATUM.  He then went on to comment that he was tired of knowing 
> exactly what time it was and he personally got sick of knowing the 
> exact time.  He also said that looking at the kitchen clock once a day 
> was close enough for him, that it reduced the stress on him.
>
> Burt
>
> At 07:43 AM 5/19/2011, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote
>> My personal preference is for highly jeweled totally mechanical
>> automatic winding  wristwatches.  My hobby compels me to have
>> high accuracy time and frequency around, but my life just
>> doesn't run with that kind of precision.
>>
>> -Chuck Harris
>
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