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minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoDigital clocks were a thing long before the internet.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoDigital in sense of how they displayed time, sure, but not digital in how they update it. Not connected. Not online. Offline clocks, I should’ve said. Who would think digital clocks are newer than the Internet wth
minus-squarefallingcats@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoOh, sure they are. The one I’m using has been around for 50 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77 Half the clocks sold here do support it, and even many “analog” (as in the clock face) ones.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoThe time-keeping in Central Europe is a bit different than ours here in the Nordics I see. Either I’m so high that I’ve forgotten, or I learned something new from reading that. Thanks. TIL.
Digital clocks were a thing long before the internet.
Digital in sense of how they displayed time, sure, but not digital in how they update it. Not connected.
Not online. Offline clocks, I should’ve said.
Who would think digital clocks are newer than the Internet wth
Oh, sure they are. The one I’m using has been around for 50 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77
Half the clocks sold here do support it, and even many “analog” (as in the clock face) ones.
The time-keeping in Central Europe is a bit different than ours here in the Nordics I see.
Either I’m so high that I’ve forgotten, or I learned something new from reading that. Thanks. TIL.