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All clocks are 30 seconds late
OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things out of the way: this is neither about time zones, nor l...
Let's compute the average error between a usual (truncating) clock, and the precise current time. In fact, as we go down the various scales of time all the way from years, months, days and we reach hours, that's when we start truncating! This is why I feel like all clocks are 30 seconds late: because the truncating convention doesn't match my intuition at the minute scale.
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