> I have a wristwatch > which I can never rely on (it's usually within a > minute of the right time) and so would like to > have a way of knowing what the exact time is. FWIW, I have a digital wristwatch that I didn't set for about four months or maybe five. I would just check it every few days against WWV to see how far off it was. By the time I set it, it was about 17 seconds fast (gain of less than 0.2 second per day!). One reason I picked this one was because the numerals for the seconds are the same size as minutes and hours. ... This watch cost me all of $7.00 at Wal-Mart. That's pretty accurate time for a very low price, so I can recommend it (the cheap digital wristwatch idea) to others. Obviously for flash timings or attempts at position measurements, I use a good stopwatch calibrated with WWV. But for knowing when to look, my seven-dollar wristwatch has been a very good deal. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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