Using your timer function

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Using your timer function

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When was the last time you used the timer on your super accurate. COSC watch for something really practical?

I just used mine to time my boiled eggs to perfection. :thumbup:
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About an hour ago - chrono function to time the tea brewing.

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It's not a super accurate COSC but the last thing I timed with my watch was how long my work computer took to boot. Apparently it wasting a day a year is not slow enough to earn me an upgrade, but I tried!
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suicidal_orange wrote:It's not a super accurate COSC but the last thing I timed with my watch was how long my work computer took to boot. Apparently it wasting a day a year is not slow enough to earn me an upgrade, but I tried!
Just leave it turned on!
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hughesyn wrote:
suicidal_orange wrote:It's not a super accurate COSC but the last thing I timed with my watch was how long my work computer took to boot. Apparently it wasting a day a year is not slow enough to earn me an upgrade, but I tried!
Just leave it turned on!
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suicidal_orange wrote:
hughesyn wrote:
suicidal_orange wrote:It's not a super accurate COSC but the last thing I timed with my watch was how long my work computer took to boot. Apparently it wasting a day a year is not slow enough to earn me an upgrade, but I tried!
Just leave it turned on!
Even setting aside my personal views on environmental issues I work for local government who are constantly making people redundant due to lack of funds -
bigger electrictricity bills are the last thing they need!

The extra cost of leaving the PC on 24 / 7 is about 7000 hours x 0.1 kW x 0.15p per kWhr = £ 105.

A productive day or your time probably costs your employer a lot more than that.

From a financial point of view it makes sense!
Maybe not from an environmental.

Does your pc have a sleep mode that uses very little power and comes straight back on?
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Ditto to the egg boiling, the only time I really use it I'm sorry to say.
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I also use my expensive chronograph to time cooking. A simple £5 kitchen timer would do it just as well.
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Earlier today to time parking in a time restricted bay.

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All the time.

I find it very useful for the usual daily stuff like cooking, parking meters, journey times, work-outs, baby’s feeds/sleeps, long phone calls/meetings in work etc.

My Omega Speedmaster can occasionally be used in a couple of slightly less-usual ways though:

- As a date indicator (the Moonwatch doesn’t have a date display) – just stop the Chronograph Second hand on the desired marker corresponding to the date. To be honest, I rarely, if ever, need to do that though.

- In conjunction with the Tachymeter scale, it can of course be used to measure speed & distance, but also to quickly predict production rate per hour. It could be used to estimate factory production schedules, for example, but I most recently used it to let me predict how long I’d have to wait for my music library to completely sync over to my new iPhone e.g. pick a single song (with an average MB size), start the chronograph when the download commences, and stop it once completed – if just over 10 seconds have passed and the chrono hand has stopped at 350 on the tachymeter scale, then that’s the average rate of song transfers per hour.
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I use my chronographs a lot when teaching for timed activities. If I tell my pupils it will be five minutes, they know it will be five minutes. At home, my tumble dryer is in the garage, so it is useful to set a chronograph so that I know when it has finished.
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