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Re: No LBC content/ was: driving questions / now: ice gets

To: "ROBERT G. HOWARD" <mgbob@juno.com>
Subject: Re: No LBC content/ was: driving questions / now: ice gets
From: "Parsons, Lindsey" <lparsons@shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 08:35:47 -0500
ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:

> The clock that doesn't run is still correct twice a day. 
> How often is a clock correct if it runs one second per day slow?

If it starts in sync, the next time it will be "correct' will be when it
looses 12 hours, which, at 1 sec/day is 43,200 days ~ 118+ years.

During the same period of time, a stopped watch would have been correct
86, 400 times !

best,
lp

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