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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

My girlfriend gave me a very nice Timex digital watch for our 2nd year anniversary. She was worrying that the watch was non-Y2K compliant which I thought was total hogwash (such a device never keeps track of the year).

What I forgot was that almost all digital watches are non-leap-year compliant. I just found that out this morning.

As I am writing this, it is the 6th of March. But according to my watch, it is the 7th. I did the incredibly stupid thing today (and last week) by putting the incorrect dates on my correspondence (by looking at my watch), forms, and the whatnot. Boy am I in deep trouble today!!!!!

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

My watch is totally compliant.

And it tells me when the sun rises and sets too!
So, 8P

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I had the smae problem w/ my watch. But it only took me until March 2 to figure it out. Or the third, if you believe the watch. :-)

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I assume everyone knows this, but you can just reset the day.

Actually, most watches will let you set the day to February 29, also.

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Funny, I had to manually reset my new(er) watch, but my aincent watch saw the date just fine...

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I use an anolog watch.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Frank: Mine obviously didn't

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Well, on February 29, you could have just set it back to the 28th, so future dates would work properly.

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

According to my page it's Feb. 25.... and no, I didn't set it off like that... for some reason it takes 3 days to change one day... that clock works fine, just not the date... hmm.....

Anyway, all the more reason to get a new pager though! Right? Thought so!

~LOA

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Here is a list of stupid things that I did by putting in the wrong date:

- Put my timesheet to Human resources dated March 5. That was a Sunday. The time sheets are supposed to be dated on Saturday. Lots of confused faces abound....
- Placed an request for a bunch of files with the date of March 4, which of course, is a Saturday. I filled out the form on Friday, and there are a lot of slightly peeved people down at archives.......
- Rushed on finishing a report Due the 3rd of March. That's a Friday, but according to my watch, it was a Thursday (Well, it wasn't exactly due, just the draft of the report, but all that rushing for nothing).
- Configured a co-worker's computer with the wrong date (now that's a no-no. Fortunately, he fixed it himself).

Oh boy........ *puff*

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Y'know, I had a watch for years that kept the date just fine. Then it got dropped out a second-floor (Brits read this "first-floor") window onto a cement patio and it didn't work too well afterward. My new one has this date problem. Why is that?

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I don't wear a watch. I find it limiting.

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Posted by Dane Simri (Member # 272) on :

I agree with First. I hate the way a watch keeps me from expanding the girth of my wrist whenever I feel the need to do so.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

True.

Still, all this way into a thread on digital watches and not one Douglas Adams quote.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Er... Uh... "Don't Panic." How's that?

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I was thinking more along the lines of a quote about digital watches, but "don't panic" will do, I suppose.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, I couldn't think of any about watches. How about "Don't panic [when it's February 29. and your watch says that it's March 1.]."? :-)

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Tsk tsk tsk Timmy, I'm appalled at your lack of Hitchiker's knowledge. It's on the second page of the book. Which I haven't got handy. Drat.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

"There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?' `Why do they die?' `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'"

The inhabitants of this forum are so amazingly primative that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

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