[time-nuts] The first "time nut"?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun May 27 14:42:17 EDT 2007


In message <4659C94A.3030206 at febo.com>, John Ackermann N8UR writes:

>[...]and if one was gaining a half second
>on the other, he would wear it on the outside of his wrist instead of
>the inside, so that gravity changed the rate of the tuning fork [...]

I'd expect that the author got this wrong, it would be the temperature
change that did it.

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