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monobrau@lemmy.world to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 years ago

A broken clock is right twice a day, but a slow clock may not be right for months or years.

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A 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 · 2 years ago
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  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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    I can’t understand this thought. Am I just being stupid?

    • monobrau@lemmy.worldOP
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      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.

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        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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          A clock that’s only slightly slow could take many years to be right again

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