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Some years ago, my dad bought a super-duper high-tech clock that resets itself every morning at 2 am, through a radio signal from a super-duper high-tech place in Colorado or somesuch.
This high-techness is supposed to keep the clock accurate, but there's a catch.
It does indeed reset itself every 24 hours. But:
While the minute and second hand each go exactly where they are meant to, the hour hand swings about wildly, and stops more or less at random. So when you look at the clock, you know exactly what minute and second the time is, but not the hour, except maybe once every three or four days or so. You have to look to the other, ordinary, clocks in the house, for that information.
I think this is fabulous. And some version of that clock may end up in a future story of mine. It will probably be magic, though, rather than ordinary technology that doesn't quite work. It reminds me of something you'd expect to find in a novel by the children's author E. Nesbit.
I'm just saying....
This high-techness is supposed to keep the clock accurate, but there's a catch.
It does indeed reset itself every 24 hours. But:
While the minute and second hand each go exactly where they are meant to, the hour hand swings about wildly, and stops more or less at random. So when you look at the clock, you know exactly what minute and second the time is, but not the hour, except maybe once every three or four days or so. You have to look to the other, ordinary, clocks in the house, for that information.
I think this is fabulous. And some version of that clock may end up in a future story of mine. It will probably be magic, though, rather than ordinary technology that doesn't quite work. It reminds me of something you'd expect to find in a novel by the children's author E. Nesbit.
I'm just saying....
