I get what you're saying, but have you never experienced a clock set to the wrong time? Is such a thing really no longer deserving of the title? What about cloc

I get what you're saying, but have you never experienced a clock set to the wrong time? Is such a thing really no longer deserving of the title? What about clocks in different locales, are they not clocks for you but clocks for others? Is this demo a clock twice a day? You're the one claiming to be a pedant here.