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   Nancy Backus to Maurice Kinal   
   Re: the infamous one-shot cybertoast tri   
   10 Nov 17 01:16:50   
   
   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 07-Nov-2017 02:54 <=-   
      
    NB>> I see you managed to get the time exact to the second   
      
    MK> I used two side by side terminals, one displaying the time in seconds,   
    MK> the other with the new cybertoasting routine locked and loaded on it's   
    MK> commandline.  All I had to do was hit the enter key once 01:59:59 UTC   
    MK> was displayed on the other terminal.    
      
   Very tricky...  ;)   
      
    MK> Also I dropped the nanosecond part from the extra special datetime   
    MK> stamp which always displays a nonzero number.  The odds of it ever   
    MK> displaying 21:00:00.000000000 EST are remote, to say the least.    
    MK> However I am confident that it is (was) up to the second accuracy with   
    MK> respect to acceptable and accessable network time protocol servers.    
      
   Up to the second is plenty accurate in my book...  ;)   Displaying the   
   nanoseconds is probably precision rather than true accuracy...  ;)     
      
    MK> I plan to do the same come 2018-01-01 albiet with a different toast,   
    MK> subject and tagline.  I believe this method has proved itself with   
    MK> respect to maximization of temporal accuracy.    
      
   Seems pretty good to me...   :)   
      
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