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Subject: Re: resetting clocks on big ships
From: Russell Sher (rsher@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 02:42:26 EDT
Ed - the Chronometer is not changed (it is left at UT/ GMT) but the Clock
which is the ship's local time is advanced or retarded.
you wrote...
Surely they don't change the clocks at all, but run in GMT
time, don't they? I suppose clocks that that run in local time
are set at the owner (of the clock)'s discretion, but the
navigators won't touch theirs.
My father was in the coast guard. The ship's main chronometer
was *never* touched except to wind it. Only when they were in
port was the chronometer re-synched to standard time.
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