Observation on accuracy

[Lumberjact]

Today, I was a bit disappointed to see that my Explorer was about 25 seconds slow, and then I tried to think when I last set it. It was when I last changed time zones - some 28 days ago. That works for me. And before someone chips in with factually correct details of the number of seconds in a day or how life is not lived to the second, let me be the first to say that accuracy of that level is simultaneously entirely unnecessary but utterly welcome! It makes me happy in a way I cannot quote understand.

[captain_NEMO]

Hear, hear!

[natosub]

Originally Posted by Lumberjact

It makes me happy in a way I cannot quote understand.

[BristolCavendish]

Back in the day (1960s) when the Bulova Accutron came out, it was advertised as keeping accurate time to within a minute per month. A properly calibrated Rolex chronometer can attain that standard. It's only when people start referencing/comparing quartz accuracy to that of a mechanical movement the OCD problems/issues begin.

[Esoteric]

Remember, 86400 is just a convenient convention for the number of seconds in a day, the so called civil day, and is therefore a crude approximation!

The number of seconds in an average day (over the past several decades at any rate), according to the irrefutable wikipedia, is more like:

86 400.002.

I humbly suggest that going forwards, the natural direction of the psychological arrow of time anyway, we adopt the convention on TRF that a day is in fact, 86,400.002 seconds long and not the often mentioned and egregiously inaccurate 86,400.

It would, no doubt, solve a lot of disputes :)

Just my 2 (thousandths), lol.

For more mind numbing ruminations on the precise length of a day see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day

As a final note be happy you don't live on Venus where it takes 243 (earth) days to complete a full rotation along its axis, just what kind of timepiece would you need there?

[JnmEaton]

as a final note be happy you don't live on venus where it takes 243 (earth) days to complete a full rotation along its axis, just what kind of timepiece would you need there?

a very large one?

[Patton250]

Originally Posted by Lumberjact

Today, I was a bit disappointed to see that my Explorer was about 25 seconds slow, and then I tried to think when I last set it. It was when I last changed time zones - some 28 days ago. That works for me. And before someone chips in with factually correct details of the number of seconds in a day or how life is not lived to the second, let me be the first to say that accuracy of that level is simultaneously entirely unnecessary but utterly welcome! It makes me happy in a way I cannot quote understand.

I could not agree more. These watches are not only beautiful but the movements are excellent and fun to keep track of. I have the atomic time app on my phone and always sync them to that.

[77T]

Originally Posted by Esoteric

As a final note be happy you don't live on Venus where it takes 243 (earth) days to complete a full rotation along its axis, just what kind of timepiece would you need there?

Verrrryyyyyy slooooooowwwwwww....


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