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April 9th, 2007, 06:51 PM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
I found an hour. It was in a tray with the spare change and car keys. It's in fairly good shape -- looks like it was only used a couple times to watch TV. If anyone's clock is still missing an hour, I'll post a link for downloading it (takes about an hour).
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April 11th, 2007, 12:58 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
/me hands AngleWyrm a medal.
Cause that post deserves one.
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April 11th, 2007, 04:13 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
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AngleWyrm said:
I found an hour. It was in a tray with the spare change and car keys. It's in fairly good shape -- looks like it was only used a couple times to watch TV. If anyone's clock is still missing an hour, I'll post a link for downloading it (takes about an hour).
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Please post the link.
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April 11th, 2007, 09:14 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
aye, did you come up with that yourself?
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April 13th, 2007, 03:49 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
heh, ya. Was gonna make a countdown timer page to link to also, but...it'd take me more than an hour 
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April 13th, 2007, 07:14 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
Cool.
One thing I've wondered is, if mass is partially relative to the speed of light, what is the speed of light relative to?
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April 13th, 2007, 07:45 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
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narf poit chez BOOM said:what is the speed of light relative to?
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April 14th, 2007, 06:09 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
Ah, but at rest relative to what?
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April 14th, 2007, 11:58 AM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
Your reference frame. To do meaningful calculations in any situation where relativity has a significant impact you will at some point simply have to arbitrarily define what is at rest. You can choose absolutely anything you want, it will all work out correctly regardless, but you have to pick something.
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April 14th, 2007, 08:20 PM
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Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour
Hehehe, read this and had to chuckle.
Yes, it's the change in daylight savings time, but that's not why I'm snickering.
I'm snickering because 98SE doesn't have this problem at all. I set time to PDT manually on the new day. On the usual day, I fired up my bawx, and 98SE politely said, "Hey, boss, it's time to set the clock ahead. You want me to do that?"
I replied "no", and that was the end of it 
Why, why, why are more sophisticated mechanisms, (and there can be no doubt that XP is far more advanced and sophisticated than 98SE), always more subject to quirky little problems like this? |
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