From your requirements, looks like a spreadsheet would be sufficient.. Should be better than notepad for sure.. You can always export to CSV and import to database programs later..
"If the antique clock loses time, a small piston speeds it up with a gentle nudge on the pendulum; if it runs fast, the piston slows it down. Each day, the clock is kept accurate to a tenth of a second. "
duh... don't think that the precision is atomic..
what a crappy title?? "Pendulum clock with atomic precision" also crappy description about camcorders and stuff that are never described..
the idea of this system is to prevent antique clocks from damages that could be caused by frequent manual time corrections.. corrections are needed due to the minor drifts carried over a period of time (and also the daylight saving time changes)
quoting from the article: "There is a growing shortage of people who are familiar with the workings of the large mechanical clocks on churches and public buildings, as routine maintenance tasks such as winding the clocks become automated. Yet they still need to be put forward an hour in spring and moved back again in the autumn without damaging their fragile mechanisms, some of which are 250 years old."
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From your requirements, looks like a spreadsheet would be sufficient.. Should be better than notepad for sure.. You can always export to CSV and import to database programs later..
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Don't you people read the article???? huh..
From the article:
"If the antique clock loses time, a small piston speeds it up with a gentle nudge on the pendulum; if it runs fast, the piston slows it down. Each day, the clock is kept accurate to a tenth of a second. "
duh... don't think that the precision is atomic..
what a crappy title?? "Pendulum clock with atomic precision"
also crappy description about camcorders and stuff that are never described..
the idea of this system is to prevent antique clocks from damages that could be caused by frequent manual time corrections.. corrections are needed due to the minor drifts carried over a period of time (and also the daylight saving time changes)
quoting from the article:
"There is a growing shortage of people who are familiar with the workings of the large mechanical clocks on churches and public buildings, as routine maintenance tasks such as winding the clocks become automated. Yet they still need to be put forward an hour in spring and moved back again in the autumn without damaging their fragile mechanisms, some of which are 250 years old."
hmm.. Microsoft and open source can never go together..