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Re: Time without a chronometer, wwv or NTP
From: Francis Upchurch
Date: 2017 May 3, 05:32 +0100
From: Francis Upchurch
Date: 2017 May 3, 05:32 +0100
Thanks for the memories David! (only just old enough to remember 1950s radio!. Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, I think. I suspect Sellers would have tried to promote the piece of paper method to the longitude board. I would improve the method by putting 86400 pieces of paper, marked for every second of the day, in a box. Shake the box and the captain picks the winner. Like the lottery. Bound to get the correct answer one day! Francis -----Original Message----- From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of David C Sent: 03 May 2017 04:44 To: francis@pharmout.co.uk Subject: [NavList] Time without a chronometer, wwv or NTP Listen to the following for a low tech way of telling the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tjHlFPTwVk Please ignore the animation - it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the audio. The animation was (presumably) created by the person who uploaded this material, claiming "fair use". For the benefit of the North American members of Navlist the Goon Show was a 1950s BBC radio program that pre-dated Monty Python by many years. Several generations (of which I am a member) grew up quoting from the Goons. "He's fallen in the water!" [plain text auto-generated] ---------------------------------------------------------------- NavList message boards and member settings: http://fer3.com/NavList Members may optionally receive posts by email. To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Time-without-chronometer-wwv-NTP-DavidC-may-2017-g38998
