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  1. NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches

    Science · Space · · posted by timothy · from the private-sale-or-tax-money-I-wonder dept. · 553 comments
    blair1q writes "In order to more easily keep solar time on Mars, (or maybe just as a lark) JPL has ordered specially-modified mechanical watches for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"