monobrau@lemmy.world to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 30 days agoA broken clock is right twice a day, but a slow clock may not be right for months or years.message-squaremessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down13
arrow-up110arrow-down1message-squareA broken clock is right twice a day, but a slow clock may not be right for months or years.monobrau@lemmy.world to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 30 days agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squaremonobrau@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·30 days agoIf a clock is slow and losing time, it will just drift farther from the correct time. Eventually it will be right again but it has to lose a full twelve hours before that happens again.
minus-squareFiveMacs@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·30 days agoA slow clock will for sure be right sooner then months or years…it also depends on how slow it is from standard time.
minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 days agoA clock that’s only slightly slow could take many years to be right again
If a clock is slow and losing time, it will just drift farther from the correct time. Eventually it will be right again but it has to lose a full twelve hours before that happens again.
A slow clock will for sure be right sooner then months or years…it also depends on how slow it is from standard time.
A clock that’s only slightly slow could take many years to be right again
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