so coming to the blog topic..
so i was driving and my clocks set 5 mins ahead of the time on my mobile.. just for safe keeping of my half days salary.. !! :) the time that the RJ said was 8 mins behind what i had set.. doing the math, it was 3 min behind my phone time.. so! it got me thinking.. what do u set ur clock to???
mine now is set to the office punch in machine.. so that i dont get late.. but i realised thats fast also..
when i travelled by train -- it was the train timing clock
when i went to college/school - it was that clock
for people who have kids - i think it would be the school ka clock
for my parents - its the TV time so that they dont miss their shows.. but thats a problem too.. each channel has a diff time!! :)) specially the news channels where the time shows..
or should u have ur clock tuned to Happy Hours time.. for savings!! recession u see!! heheh
or should u have ur clock set to the internet/phone network... who sets that time!!
or should u depend on the swiss for time!! arent they the most accurate watch makers!! :)
so the profound thought is... is there like an accurate time.. should we see the stars, the sun and the moon to get the universal accurate time.. or for that matter, do we need to be that accurate in time anyways!! heheh
like the big giant clock at CST station.. that would be a good clock to match ur time.. bombay runs on that clock.. but with indian mentality, is that clock serviced ever... is that the accurate time.. i dont even know if thats serviced!! i wish i had access to such infor.. "Is the clock at CST serviced? How accurate is that time? "
with the lack of this info or info on a master time keeper clock, i shall simply say... tune ur clock to what makes ur life simple!! if that at some point in time in the future changes, makes life less simple, change the time to make it more simple.. Simple!! hehehe
5 comments:
first para of the blog rocks !!! u dint mention the special account that we have created in our monthly Salary " RELIEF FUND"" remember ??
Awesome thot :) makes life so simple after reading ths Quote 'tune ur clock to what makes ur life simple!!'
WAH WAH !!!
Nice! :-) I Likes it Niru... Very Muchas!
i'm going to give a geeky answer since you touched on a topic relevant to my current work: geolocation. knowing the time accurately has always been important, not just now, but for several centuries, since humanity started traveling about and wondered where on Earth they were. no kidding.
The idea of time-zones and longitudes came about with sea faring merchant (and naval) vessels. By common agreement, the modern day global time is synchronized to UTC (universal coordinated time). in general this corresponds to the time maintained by the royal solar observatory in Greenwich, London. That's why the zero-meridian passes through there (by common agreement).
the most commonly accessible precise time is GPS time. it is maintained to be within 1 micro-second of USNO time, which closely tracks UTC. GPS time is actually very precise (due to on-board atomic clocks) and in fact has been used to track changes in the earth's rotation (which cause leap second jumps in UTC).
so ya, if you have a gps device, or say a cdma network phone that's linked to gps time, then that's probably the most precise time estimate you have :)
personally, though, i keep my clocks a random amount ahead of time. that way, i'm always worried about not knowing how much time i really have... :p
@kage truly geeky!! Hope this india breaks done u good n u continue the geeky stuff but in te releveant places... :)
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