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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... :)              ttyl neb              ... There is a plot afoot to make me think I'm paranoid!              --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F        * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (1:229/452)    |
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