Re:All clocks are 30 seconds late
by RIMR on Monday January 06, 2025 @01:39PM
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>That digital clock does show seconds
It most certainly does not.
I see HH:MM, temperature in Celsius, humidity in percent, alarm status, alarm time, day of the week, and DD/MM. None of those are seconds. It is a truncating digital clock that rounds down.
>the London clock has its minute hand in between minute mark - showing progres between minute mark if you look closely.
"If you look closely" isn't really how analog clocks work in practice. Without a second hand, the limits of human vision prevent us from fully calculating the time between minutes, as each second only represents a 0.1° change in angle of the minute hand, and most mechanical analog clocks aren't designed for the minute hand to move perfectly linearly between minutes.
It most certainly does not.
I see HH:MM, temperature in Celsius, humidity in percent, alarm status, alarm time, day of the week, and DD/MM. None of those are seconds. It is a truncating digital clock that rounds down.
>the London clock has its minute hand in between minute mark - showing progres between minute mark if you look closely.
"If you look closely" isn't really how analog clocks work in practice. Without a second hand, the limits of human vision prevent us from fully calculating the time between minutes, as each second only represents a 0.1° change in angle of the minute hand, and most mechanical analog clocks aren't designed for the minute hand to move perfectly linearly between minutes.