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   AJL, 2025-10-31 16:56:   
      
   > On 10/31/25 2:52 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:   
   [...]   
   >> Yes - and a watch should show the exact time and not 5-6 seconds off.   
   >> Even cheap digital watches are able to do this.   
   >   
   >   
   > Wow. Complaining over being a few seconds off?? I guess I must have had a   
      
   Yes - because a *digital* watch is supposed to be *precise*.   
      
   >  tough youth then. My windup watch was a minute off a day. The horror!! But   
   >  the good part was I got my exercise when I had to wind it. And gosh I often   
   >  had to (gasp) reset it. How did I ever survive?? You kids today just don't   
   >  know how good you have it...  ;)   
      
   You miss the point - it's not about the need (or lack of need) to have a   
   precise time but the fact, that a device which *could* be precise, is not.   
      
      
      
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