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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can’t understand this thought. Am I just being stupid?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A slow clock will for sure be right sooner then months or years..it also depends on how slow it is from standard time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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