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Playing With Atomic Clocks At Home

Posted by kdawson on from the as-i-was-walking-down-the-street-one-day dept.

Wired is running a profile of the Time Nuts, a small group of people who buy surplus precision time equipment — cesium clocks for example — on eBay and keep really accurate time, because they can. The article quotes Tom Van Baak, who has outfitted a time lab superior to those of many small countries: "If you have one clock... you are peaceful and have no worries. If you have two clocks... you start asking, 'What time is it, really?'"

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  1. No no no, the saying is... by Relic+of+the+Future · · Score: 5, Informative

    They got the saying all wrong. It goes "A man who wears one watch always knows what time it is; a man who wears two watches is never sure."

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