[time-nuts] Personal time keeping...

[Steve Rooke]

A number of years back the London Science Museum used to sell an Einstein
Relative Time Watch that just had the hours hand and was marked around the
dial, 1'ish, 2'ish, 3'ish, etc. I bought my ex one, don't know if she still
has it. It's not the same as the new ones I have seen via Googling as I
think this was much more fun.

Steve

On 20 May 2011 02:55, Burt I. Weiner <biwa at att.net> 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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Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. -
Einstein