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Re: resetting clocks on big ships
From: Russell Sher
Date: 2000 Jul 21, 12:42 AM
From: Russell Sher
Date: 2000 Jul 21, 12:42 AM
Ed - the Chronometer is not changed (it is left at UT/ GMT) but the Clock which is the ship's local time is advanced or retarded. you wrote... Surely they don't change the clocks at all, but run in GMT time, don't they? I suppose clocks that that run in local time are set at the owner (of the clock)'s discretion, but the navigators won't touch theirs. My father was in the coast guard. The ship's main chronometer was *never* touched except to wind it. Only when they were in port was the chronometer re-synched to standard time.
