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Re:Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses by dksbzmx on Monday September 02, 2019 @09:43AM (#20859062)
A couple of minutes a week is excessive. Something’s wrong with the watch.

When a solar flare finally hits us (or the Ruskies and the Yanks decide to nuke the world), however, your Seiko will still be a minute/week off. Your quartz watches will be week/week off.

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Re:Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses by digikazi on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:38PM (#20860635)
Should that happen, if I am lucky/unlucky enough to survive a nuclear exchange, being on time to catch the train will probably be the least of my worries.

Having said that, I still have an Olympus Trip 35 in my collection and since it uses a selenium cell and a basic galvanometer to measure exposure, I should be okay to use it and document the aftermath as soon as the dust has settled!

Edited for clarity

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