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To all who visit our little corner of the hi-fi world, have a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy new year.
 
No chimney, but I did get a nice set of screwdrivers from my son, a pair of cycling gloves from my daughter and a Moto G Android smartphone from my wife.

Santa left me some German marzipan (well I think it was Santa.)
 
Santa delivered me a box of new record sleeves and digital stylus tracking force gauge.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.
 
I mostly just eat and drank a lot :) My brother bought along some home-made sloe gin, my Mum made a Kahlua cheese cake and my Dad's GF made a lovely roast. Lots of other stuff too.
 
I nearly got there about 4o'clock this afternoon when our excellent IT manager 'found' some remarkably good red wine in his server room ;)

HNY to all from Bath (6m 40s behind London)
 
felix said:
HNY to all from Bath (6m 40s behind London)
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But legally keeping Greenwich (London) time!

Only after a celebrated legal case in Bristol, and an Act of Parliament:

Before the railways, local mean time was the time kept by clocks and used for general purposes in the UK, insofar as people kept time by clocks rather than by the sun. (Mean time, as shown by sufficiently accurate clocks, had largely replaced apparent time, as shown by a sundial, from around the end of the eighteenth century.) With the coming of the railways, it became a significant problem for timetables that the time at one end of a railway line should differ significantly from that at the other. For this reason, in the 1840s the railway companies started to keep London time consistently at their stations and on their trains; on 22 September 1847 it was recommended by the Railway Clearing House that all the railway companies should adopt Greenwich time, and by January 1848 this had generally been done. Over the next few years the rest of the country followed the railways, but in the 1858 case of Curtis v. March it was ruled that the time for legal purposes must be considered to be local mean time. In 1880 the legal time for Great Britain was made Greenwich mean time by Act of Parliament
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http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/
 
Trust Bristol to want to be different :D

Nice link - thanks. Still, if your watching the Earth's rotation and timing one turn to another strictly... that 6mins is a 0.001% error. Almost as bad a Rega P3 <ducks>



(Don't get me wrong - I'm at home in Somerset, where 'hi-tech' is pigs and apples...)
 
As I was watching the BBC evening news I saw celebrations in Australia and the far east where they have already got to AD2014 and I thought to myself "Australians, fine, but why are the Chinese and the Japanese marking the start of the Gregorian year? Now wouldn't Pope Gregory be pleased!"

The history, astronomy and maths is interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
 

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