[time-nuts] New unit of time measurement

shalimr9 at gmail.com shalimr9 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 00:53:43 UTC 2012


They are used in Russia, and that is pretty much what is happening. I can't imagine those being used in France...

Didier KO4BB

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From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
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In message <2867F1FA0E254465AF8CA85C85ED0C79 at narvik>, "David J Taylor" writes:

>> In China I've seen down-counting LED displays for the red sign. But this 
>> is just to simple for Europe. Badly.
>
>I've certainly seen countdown display for pedestrians in several European 
>cities.

They are not used for cars here in Denmark because a certain testosterone
driven segment of drivers think they are in pole-position when they see
a count-down.

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