Steven Hanley
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Thu, 29 Mar 2007
Year 2007 problem. - 12:41
My watch is a fancy looking sailing watch, however I acquired because my
grandmother found it on the pavement at Dickson when the Australian Junior
Mirror championships were on in Canberra around 1992. I have used the watch
for the last 10 years or so when I needed a waterproof watch, and since my
other watch went missing in New Zealand a few years ago I have used this as my
primary watch.
However I just encountered a problem when I went to change the time on the
watch for daylight saving on Saturday night. The watch was I suspect
constructed in 1991 and only uses 4 bits to store the year offset information
for the date displayed. This occurs to me because I noticed the year on the
watch is 1991 rather than 2007, the watch can not be set later than 2006
accurately. No real biggie as all it means is I should ignore the day
information (today is not Friday).
Of course maybe I should buy a new watch one of these years.
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