Re: All computers in the world MUST sync with ATOMIC clock before 12:00 AM 21 July 2001!!!

From: John Garner <jgarner_at_commercenti.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:46:57 +0100
Message-ID: <3B8CF251.FE9091AC_at_commercenti.com>


Corysia Taware wrote:
>
> Probably because they didn't have an acurate atomic clock!! So here we've
> come full circle.
>
> "Jeff Connelly" <jconnelly_at_nc.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:yP%57.266692$Z2.3226445_at_nnrp1.uunet.ca...
> > "Paul Hughett" <hughett_at_mercur.uphs.upenn.edu> wrote in message
> > news:9j9dmp$1r1$2_at_netnews.upenn.edu...
> > > No, no, no! The clock was destroyed by the brontotheria; then the
> > > brontotheria were destroyed by the meteor, which was then destroyed
> > > by the impact. It is not recorded what the impact was destroyed by.
> >
> > Siltation, I believe. This did not get recorded as an event, though,
> > because no one could agree on when exactly it occurred.

Well, they didn't have an atomic clock to get it to the nearest 25millionth of a second, but wasn't it around tea-time? ;-)

John G.

(and excuse the non-posting to comp.lang.java.setup and mailing.www.php-user, they don't exist at our news server and netscape under Linux (4.72) is just soooo bad) Received on Wed Aug 29 2001 - 15:46:57 CEST

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