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Slacker007 wrote: I wonder why they would take the time
 - was that intentional?
I just have a battery LCD clock (synchronised via radio time signal) next to my monitor. It always displays the time, even when the PC is off including during power cuts.
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I have a cell phone that always shows the date and time. My cell phone is with me always.
I have not worn a wrist watch or had a stand alone clock/alarm in years.
However, when using the computer, it is convenient sometimes to just glance down in the right corner and see the BLOODY DATE AND TIME.
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Clocks are all over the place. The radio controlled clock on the wall. The tabletop radio that plays music even when the PC is restarting or off the network. The TV set. On the kitchen stove, microwave and baking oven. In the car, both the radio and the GPS. The living room thermometer. The bathroom thermometer. The phone, too, but usually one of the others are within sight without having to pick anything up. If I pick up my SLR camera, it shows time and date as well. I used to have a keyboard that showed the time in a small display.
Not all of them switch automatically to daylight saving time. A couple of them must be reset when I replace batteries. Not all of them display the weekday. They are not all perfect and complete. But they provide what I need the most.
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Windows 11 also taught me something else: I regularly need to know the seconds when programming.
Luckily that 3rd party clock app can also display seconds!
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lmoelleb wrote: I regularly need to know the seconds when programming.
What for?
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I was wondering as well! 
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It's not it happens every day (far from it), I was just surprised it happens as often as it does (every few weeks).
Old legacy code written by people who where young, eager, and smart... but unfortunately not experienced. For example, they introduced events - but use them as commands. So instead of the event handler listening to whatever it needs - whatever the event needs is required to send an event targeting the handler. Yikes. If they had just used a method call it would have been a lot easier debug. When checking log files etc (what happened before we got here), correlation to the current time within 10-20 seconds is handy now and then... saves me from waiting until the minutes tick over before hitting F5.
And also for very rude check of performance check as a first step to see if it is worth profiling or anything - i.e. used to take 12 seconds - with my new change it is taking 11 - no need to investigate further. And yes, you should of course have more systematic performance test anyways - but let's just say I am looking forward to the day where lack of systematic performance test is our most serious problem. 
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I have been watching a Udemy course where the presenter often shows his PC screen. A couple of times when I have been viewing in full screen mode, I have glanced at the time in the bottom right-hand corner and been surprised how late it was only to realise that it was the presenter's clock on the PC in the video, not the one on my PC.  
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damn!
well the good news someone told me the clock is back! On the insider builds... We will have to wait...
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But usually it's the PHBs who have ideas which we developers say can't be done.
I wonder if the PHB's office is bugged by the competitor.
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That would be a good follow-up, to have them discover a bug in PHB's office. And naturally, it's the Elbonians! 
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I didn't think the Elbonians were competitors.
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But there has to be someone to automatically blame!
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Greg Utas wrote: And naturally, it's the Elbonians!
The North Elbonians or the South Elbonians? 
(After the mud weasel wars of the last century, Elbonia split into North and South.)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I didn't realize it was divided into North and South!
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Wait a second.....
Why does this sound like my mother everyday of my life???  
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Easy peasy but I like it
Moronic variant (7)
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I like it! 
Tick, tick ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm sure you do, now you got your booster
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Don't mention the booster - we've both had side effects from it and are not quite back to normal yet. To the point where I went to bed at 8:30 on Tuesday night ...
Felt like a mild version of Covid itself, but I guess it's just our immune systems going into overdrive and saying "Elephant you!" to what it thinks is the virus again. Which is probably a good sign!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Be well!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Vikram posted but can’t set one so I’ll let you decide amongst yourself WIUT 👀
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Can you do tomorrow as I am useless at these except through blind luck?
Omicron.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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