Subj : Re: food, etc... To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sun Jan 12 2020 01:25:42 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 05-Jan-2020 09:44 <=- BM> AFAIK all computers will gain or loose time, which to me seems odd as BM> they have $19.99 watches accurate to one second per month (maybe a BM> little exaggeration!). ...When the time comes up January 1, 1980, you BM> know you have a battery problem! NB> [chuckle] It would be more practical if the gain/loss would balance NB> out... ;) The computers I've had that lose time generally also have NB> a battery problem, just not quite so severe... ;) BM> I'm not sure how accurate my computers are: all connected to the BM> network and so on to the Outside World where they can ask their BM> favourite time server for the time. No idea when or how often -- IIRC BM> Windows XP asked once a week and there were occasions when I noticed BM> the system time was off from real time by a minute. By staying in DOS, I don't have Windows trying to "update" to DST when I'd just as soon stay in EST.... back when I'd use a graphics program for which I needed to use Windows, it always would change the time on me... ;) BM> Right now comparing the computer's time to the 'atomic clock' in the BM> desktop weather station unit the times are off by about two seconds. BM> Which clock is right, or more right, I don't care. That's not off by much, for either one of them, after all... :) BM>> My theory is they have a dart board in the weather office: BM>> Party cloudy! High's in the 40's! Extended BM>> forecast is too variable to guess! ...Why is Daryl glaring at me?! NB>> He's not glaring... just trying not to laugh too uproariously... BM> Ah! ..Think he'll admit that?! Dunno.... maybe............. ;) BM> Yesterday's (Saturday's) forecast was for it to become windy: 40+ MPH BM> by late afternoon. Something reminded me in the early evening of it BM> was suppose to be windy: I don't hear any wind noise. ...At the time BM> the winds were reported at 11 MPH: no wonder quiet out there! On-line BM> weather and then the TV weather this morning had the winds coming BM> later today. Temperture supposed to get into the upper 30's but feel BM> like the lower 30's with the breeze. Maybe snow flurries in the next BM> few days but nothing major (so better stock up on toilet paper and milk BM> before the storm hits! ). Stocking up before the crowd thinks it should be done is probably the most efficient... and the most likely to succeed.... ;) Just don't get so much milk it goes bad before you use it all up... ;) ttyl neb .... Did you hear about the baker who was short of dough? --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .