# How do they tell time at the poles?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-tell-time-at-the-poles/113714>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 12, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-tell-time-at-the-poles/113714 "2002-06-12T20:42:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![johncole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@johncole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johncole)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-tell-time-at-the-poles/113714/21 "2002-06-14T13:56:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by blinx \*  
> \*\*Quite amazing how it also manages to syncronize the aliens lips to the translated voices 🙂 \*\*

obviously there is a holo-emitter built into the badge so that the hearing-impaired can lip-read the aliens.

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-tell-time-at-the-poles/113714/22 "2002-06-19T02:32:19Z")

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> Quite amazing how it also manages to syncronize the aliens lips to the translated voices

Hey it’s fiction. Lighten up.

Why are we discussing this? It has absolutely nothing to do with the OP.

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