And yet a wrong clock is far more useful than a stopped clock
A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong.
Submitted 1 day ago by JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I dunno man. ‘i don’t know’ is often more helpful than ‘sure, I know how to do this, trust me bro’
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A wrong clock can show the passage of time and if you know how far it’s off it just requires mental math. A stopped clock merely tells you when it stopped. Now a clock that advances at the wrong speed, that’s useless and a hindrance to you knowing what time it is
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I set the clock in the kitchen a little fast because my partner is chronically late, and this way he leaves on time for work.
hakase@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
All clocks are wrong except broken clocks, which are right twice a day.
ToaLanjiao@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Akshurreally…, a wrong clock is correct somewhere on the planet. Same as all other clocks.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It might not align with any known time zone, but it will show you the solar time of some location somewhere.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Thank you for organizing the concept concisely :)
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bastard. Have my upvote.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Not if the minutes are off.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Solar time, not agreed upon time.
danciestlobster@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I mean I have heard this reasoning said differently a lot of times but isn’t that technically not true? I mean time zones only go in 1 hour increments. So if the time is 5:30 and a wrong clock says 5:40, it isn’t really 540 somewhere. It’s 530 or 630 or 730 or w/e
theit8514@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fun fact! Timezones don’t just break at 1 hour increments. timeanddate.com/…/time-zones-interesting.html
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
Or maybe if the clock is exactly an hour off, it’ll eventually be right when daylight saving time rolls around.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The planet is a clock.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fun fact: If you take a cheap quartz crystal digital LCD watch and short the two terminals to the quartz crystal, the display will go blank and it’ll literally freeze in time, until you remove the short circuit.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 day ago
If a clock runs backwards how many times a day is it right?
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Four?
Thorry@feddit.org 1 day ago
It would depend on how fast it runs. The faster it runs the more times it’s right. So if we extrapolate, once you get a clock running backwards fast enough, it will be right all of the time.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
A wrong clock can still track time intervals.
And if you know by how much the clock is wrong, it’s totally usable.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Solution: break all clocks.
/joke
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
A broken clock can be a kind of a wrong clock.
Stopped clocks are the real deal!UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
A broken clock is garbage.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ah yes, it’s heil past neon!
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Elon musk clock. Approved by Nazis everywhere!
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Most accurate clock. It measures “times”.
db2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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