Altimeter-Barometer-Compass Watches - Anyone Have Experience?

Andrew Price

On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:00:36 +0100, Dan Gregory
<dangregory@brakes.palaver.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>> In France in particular, the sunrise/sunset time on a non-GPS watch is
>> likely to be *way* off due to the bizarre little jumps the timezones make in
>> that part of Europe. France is, if I recall correctly, offset by a full hour
>> from where it "should" be. The result is that it stays light far later (at
>> least in the summer, which I can verify by personal observation) than it
>> should.
>
> They changed the clocks to German time during the occupation. Never
>changed it back.

But recalcitrant villages set their church clocks to the "vielle
heure" for a long time after, and of course sundials on older
buildings still show the "proper" time.

>Yellow headlamps law lasted a long time too...

That got done by the EC requirement that white headlamps should be
able to be used everywhere. It didn't specifically forbid the use of
yellow lamps, but for manufacturers, once the mandatory use of yellow
was no longer there, they did their sums and ended up fitting all cars
with white lamps.

Personally, I preferred the yellow lamps. The stray light from badly
adjusted beams on cars coming in the opposite direction was far less
tiring at night, and some also claim that it was better in fog.

Robert Chung

On May 15, 2:43 am, Peter Clinch <p.j.cli...@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> As to will it get dark, well, at this time of year in this part of the
> world, today the sun will go down a wee bit later than it did yesterday.
> Once we're past September 23 it will be going down a little earlier
> every night.

The calendar is funny in your part of the world.

Peter Clinch

Robert Chung wrote:
> On May 15, 2:43 am, Peter Clinch <p.j.cli...@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> As to will it get dark, well, at this time of year in this part of the
>> world, today the sun will go down a wee bit later than it did yesterday.
>> Once we're past September 23 it will be going down a little earlier
>> every night.
>
> The calendar is funny in your part of the world.

Mea Culpa, I should have used the equinoxes rather than the solstices.

Pete.
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