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Calendar types in watches

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179 points farslan | 1 comments | 29 Apr 24 17:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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thristian ◴[01 May 24 05:51 UTC] No.40219953[source]▶
Being used to the world of software, where only ignorant and amateurish systems don't handle the 400-year rule in the Gregorian calendar, it's eye-opening to find out that people are paying thousands of dollars for a time-keeping device that needs the date to be manually fixed five times a year.
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1. dphuang2 ◴[01 May 24 18:03 UTC] No.40226899[source]▶
idk what to say, its cool to see a bunch of gears tracking time and stare at it while it works ._.