monobrau@lemmy.world to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 days agoA broken clock is right twice a day, but a slow clock may not be right for months or years.message-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down13
arrow-up18arrow-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 · 11 days agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squareNoel_Skum@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 days agoI can’t understand this thought. Am I just being stupid?
minus-squaremonobrau@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 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-squareFiveMacslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 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.
I can’t understand this thought. Am I just being stupid?
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.
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