<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>In a message dated 6/20/2005 5:37:20 PM Mountain Standard Time, WHITLEVM@uwec.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>So having someone appear to be two minutes off of "your" time is probably not a big deal unless you know that your watch is accurate pretty much to the second. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>I disagree, rather strongly, and I know others will, too. Especially given that everybody should "KNOW" that their watch _IS_ accurate. The correct "atomic" time is readily available, via the clock at the OFVC window that anybody can look at. Or given that I (for example) regularly set my watch by that clock, set yours by mine. Etc. Then we're all the same and there is no error beyond the possible second or two involved in actually, physically looking at the watch. <DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The only time an "error of less than 5 minutes" outght to be acceptable to an experienced gazer (and any gazer experienced enough to be recordinbg events and times is certainly expereinced enough) is, frankly, never.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>