A clock never showing right time might be preferable to the one showing right time twice a day Why is this?

Question

what does this mean can you help me with this answer

Answer 1

If a clock never shows the right time, you can do the math to figure out the correct time from what the clock says.

A clock that tells the correct time twice a day is a clock that is not running at all!

Answer 2

The clock showing the right time twice a day is stopped as the other one could be a minute out all the time which is not a problem really

Answer 3

Good question. Here is how this paradox might be possible. This is an example of something that is not accurate but may be precise. To be accurate means the clock tells the correct time. To be precise means that day after day the inaccuracy of the clock remains constant. Therefore, say it it 12:00 but the clock reads 10:00. Then tomorrow at 10:00 the clock will also read 10:00, when the actual time is 12:00. The clock will give repeatable values but they will not be accurate. This is preferable since we know that we can simply add 2 hours to any time to give us the "correct" time.

Answer 4

A clock whose hands do not move, i.e. stuck, is right twice each day on twelve hour clocks.

So I clock that has no hands is always wrong,

If you do not know that a clock is stuck is is bad, but if the clock is always wrong, --has no hands, you at least cannot be fooled.

If the clock is running but always off, you can compute an offset to determine the right time.

Answer 5

It will eventually be right.