Xander ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
if a clock is broken so that it's gaining a minute a day, when is the next time it'll be telling the right time?
Totally off the cuff answer: 12 hours x 60 min/hour =720 minutes to gain, which would take 720 days, so close to two years. Unless after 660 days it's in Standard Time and started in Daylight Savings Time.
Depends on whether it's analog or digital, surely?
That's 12x60 days, you're thinking? Yeah, a minute a day.
I like mine and Nutty's answer. It may not be correct, but it makes more sense.
t munches popcorn
Wait! Next, they are going to take on the chicken or egg thing. It'll be great.
How does it make sense?
It's noon. The clock says it's 12:00.
23:59 hours later, it's 11:59 and the clock says it's 12:00. How is that right?
Chicken.
Silly Cindy. Chickens can't tell time.
That's why they keep crossing roads.
t hang on another 990-odd years, and they will be on the '00 -vs- '01 Millenium thing. It will rock.