They are used in Russia, and that is pretty much what is happening. I can't imagine those being used in France...
Didier KO4BB Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... -----Original Message----- From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:31:45 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<time-nuts@febo.com> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] New unit of time measurement In message <2867F1FA0E254465AF8CA85C85ED0C79@narvik>, "David J Taylor" writes: >> In China I've seen down-counting LED displays for the red sign. But this >> is just to simple for Europe. Badly. > >I've certainly seen countdown display for pedestrians in several European >cities. They are not used for cars here in Denmark because a certain testosterone driven segment of drivers think they are in pole-position when they see a count-down. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.