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>They say that a broken clock is correct twice a day. This one can’t even manage that. It's hilarious, but also sad.
by edgarvaldes 7y ago
>They say that a broken clock is correct twice a day. This one can’t even manage that.
It's hilarious, but also sad.
- mikestew 7y agoThat saying hasn't been true for a long time, if one is speaking generally. I have a house full of clocks, and only one will tell the correct time twice a day if it is in "stopped clock"[0] mode. The rest of them don't tell time at all in that mode. [0] "Even a stopped/broken clock is right twice a day."
- robocat 7y agoIt really depends on how it is broken. I bought a digital clock home from the US, and it synched it time using the mains frequency, so it was 20% slow, so it would show the right time once every 0.6 days or so. There might have been a pin to control 50Hz vs 60Hz but I couldn't find docs. Instead I bought a 60Hz generator chip, and figured out how to solder it in to make the clock keep time. Unfortunately they used the positive and negative parts of the AC cycle to control the LED display (saving half control lines by using diodes). So although it kept time, I couldn't read the time on the display. Note that my time is more valuable, I suspect I will invest many more days making it work!