There's a conductive rubber piece that contacts the board on one side and the display on the other. Remove it, clean the ends with an eraser, reassemble. Fixed.
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
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
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.
No idea what might happen on a modern smart watch, I ain't got that much money to piss away on experiments..
Depends on what your error bounds for correct is. Technically there are very few clocks that are by definition "correct." Every other clock is just close enough for a given region.
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.
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 335d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 335d
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 335d
The Elon musk clock. Approved by Nazis everywhere!
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 335d
Ah yes, it’s heil past nein!
kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 335d
I did not see past nine.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 335d
Most accurate clock. It measures "times".
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
Oh look, it's Twitter O'Clock.
db2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d
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There's a conductive rubber piece that contacts the board on one side and the display on the other. Remove it, clean the ends with an eraser, reassemble. Fixed.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 335d
And yet a wrong clock is far more useful than a stopped clock
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
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 · 15 pts · 335d
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
railway692@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 335d
Me for months when the oven clock is off by an hour because of daylight savings time.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 335d
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.
ToaLanjiao@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 335d
Akshurreally..., a wrong clock is correct somewhere on the planet. Same as all other clocks.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 335d
It might not align with any known time zone, but it will show you the solar time of some location somewhere.
If you stop the clock, you’ll see the solar time of a place that moves around the earth all the time. Twice a day, that place is here.
otter@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 335d
Thank you for organizing the concept concisely :)
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 335d
Bastard. Have my upvote.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 335d
Not if the minutes are off.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
Rounding!
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
Yes, analog clocks are round 🕘
I bet if you roll it like a wheel, the time will probably be right somewhere...
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
Solar time, not agreed upon time.
danciestlobster@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 335d
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 · 4 pts · 335d
Fun fact! Timezones don't just break at 1 hour increments. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio · 2 pts · 335d
Or maybe if the clock is exactly an hour off, it'll eventually be right when daylight saving time rolls around.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 335d
The planet is a clock.
hakase@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 335d
All clocks are wrong except broken clocks, which are right twice a day.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 335d
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.
No idea what might happen on a modern smart watch, I ain't got that much money to piss away on experiments..
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 335d
A wrong clock is just in the wrong place
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
Nope. Time differences are countable, not continuous. Wrong clock can be 12 minutes wrong - thus wrong in any timezone.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 335d
Depends on what your error bounds for correct is. Technically there are very few clocks that are by definition "correct." Every other clock is just close enough for a given region.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 335d
If a clock runs backwards how many times a day is it right?
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
Four?
Thorry@feddit.org · 5 pts · 335d
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.
bumblefumble@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 335d
It will be right infinitely many times, but not all the time, as it will also be wrong infinitely many times.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
If it's running fast enough, it wouldn't matter what time it is.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 335d
remon@ani.social · 2 pts · 335d
A wrong clock can still track time intervals.
And if you know by how much the clock is wrong, it's totally usable.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
A broken clock can be a kind of a wrong clock.
Stopped clocks are the real deal!
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 335d
A broken clock is garbage.