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Discussion: Keeping Track of Time?
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daleks daleks |
Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 20 2008, 2:40 PM EDT How would you keep track of the date and time onwards from Z-Day? Will you keep your trusty watch and write down the date? Do you find this valuable? |
 DaveBall |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 20 2008, 10:07 PM EDT When it's light you work when it's dark you sleep.. Who cares what the date is? If theirs no calenders or dates no one ages! Seriously find some good wind up watches. I have an old pocket watch that was my grand fathers. As for year or calenders I just ain't going to worry about it.. Do you find this valuable? |
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zombieman98 zombieman98 |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 20 2008, 10:29 PM EDT It's pretty simple to tell what time it is according to thesun in the sky. My main concern will be the date, i'll probably keep a calender or something. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
 byates |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 12:10 AM EDT "Who cares what the date is?You need to know the date for seasonal preparation, winterizing, harvesting, planting, etc. Do you find this valuable? |
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DaveBall |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 10:30 AM EDT As a farmer that's easy to do by the weather and changing of the seasons. A calender has little to do with farming at all. Harvesting is done when you inspect your crops and they are ready to be harvested. Not " oh it's October 25 time to harvest.". Planting is done when the weather warms enough that your plants wont get frost bitten. Seasonal preparation when it's warm you work when it's cold you work. Do you find this valuable? |
 ~Jack~ |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 10:51 AM EDT What if the winter is a tad bit shorter then normal, and you plant your crops (not noticing it is still winter)... Hell freezes over and you lose everything... It helps knowing what time of year it is. That way you can make educated guesses about whether or not it is the right time to plant, and whether or not this is just a temporary warm spell or really is the end of winter. Personally, I like the simple count days with whatever. Every morning you walk over to your calendar wall. The wall is covered with 4 (or 5?) charts, three of them have 365 little flippy things representing individual days, the fourth (fifth?) being for a leap year with 366 flippy things. One side of the flippy thing is green, the other is red. Every day you flip one flippy thing over, and go on with your life. if winter starts a certain day of the year, in the back of the flippy with have a little snow flake stamped onto it or something. This will give you the general idea of when winter is supposed to arrive, and that you should prepare some time soon if it hadn't already come. It's far from perfect, but it will give you a general idea of what day it is according to the rest of the year. :D Do you find this valuable? |
 dominickmagas |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:30 PM EDT I'm going to have a couple good watches and a bunch of batteries, my one watch lasted about 5 years on one battery, so if I have like a couple hundred batteries, and a couple watches, I'll be set. Do you find this valuable? |
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~Jack~ |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:32 PM EDT I could always try a solar-powered clock... maybe even an atomic clock... those things last forever :D Okay, maybe not forever, but a very long time. Do you find this valuable? |
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dominickmagas |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:37 PM EDT atomic clocks are really accurate too, they only lose like a second every 1000 years, unlike my microwave which looses a minute every hour, and then there's my wall clock, which looses a minute every minute, or maybe the batteries are dead? Do you find this valuable? |
 HeavenlySword |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:38 PM EDT you do realize the atomic clocks used by the government are giant right? on the order of more than 2 tons? Do you find this valuable? |
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~Jack~ |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:43 PM EDT yes Do you find this valuable? |
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dominickmagas |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:46 PM EDT but if you had a really big truck... and a huge battery... Do you find this valuable? |
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dominickmagas |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:46 PM EDT i'll just stick to looking at my wrist and pretending I have a watch. Do you find this valuable? |
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HeavenlySword |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:47 PM EDT If i had a fleet of tanker trucks loaded with fuel, an army of M1 Abrams tanks, generators, technitians, ammunition trucks.... yeah, ok. Nice Do you find this valuable? |
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~Jack~ |
RE: Keeping Track of Time?
Aug 21 2008, 5:53 PM EDT That would be a nice thing to have... Do you find this valuable? |
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byates |
solar powered clock.
Aug 22 2008, 12:05 AM EDT The original solar powered clock, a sundial. http://www.sundials.org/ Do you find this valuable? |
 The.Mad.Badger |
RE: solar powered clock.
Aug 22 2008, 9:54 AM EDT If you were mobile, all you'd need to keep a track of time is a notebook. You don't need times, only dates. just a simple tally chart will keep you up to date, so to say. I'd imagine that you would go mad if you had no way to tally up how long you'd been.........doing whatever you've been doing. It would just make your task seem endless. Therefore futile, 'may aswell put a bullet through my temple'. etc etc etc oh, and the atomic clock in geneve is the size of a small fridge. BUT, there is a navy research place in Massachusetts (i think) that have made one the sive of a pack of ciggys. Do you find this valuable? |
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DaveBall |
RE: solar powered clock.
Aug 22 2008, 11:15 AM EDT Farming is a gamble. Even today with all of the technology we have we can't always judge late freezes. It happens from time to time. Atomic clocks are controlled by computers. The one's you can buy are sent signals from a main clock to keep them reset them selfs. You would still need power for them ( batteries, or electric ). And I am sure there will be a better use for any source of power. Do you find this valuable? |
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byates |
Planting times
Aug 22 2008, 3:24 PM EDT "Farming is a gamble. Even today with all of the technology we have we can't always judge late freezes. It happens from time to time.It would be nice to know that you are planting after the last expected freeze and when there is enough time for the crop to develop before the weather kills it. Do you find this valuable? |
