Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, it’s very easy to debunk this nonsense.

  www.snopes.com/…/schools-removing-analog-clocks/

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you for posting that.

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Really? I never knew any of them were synchronized, that’s cool if so. I seem to remember us pulling them off the wall at our schools and changing them twice a year or replacing the batteries. Having them wired with synchronization may be overboard, but it is kind of cool

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. The schools I went to had synchronized analog clocks. They would all “adjust” together if they were off at all. Some kind of clockwork solenoid.

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes I remember sometimes they would remotely adjust our clocks and you could see the hands moving quickly until they stopped in their intended position. Pretty genius for the old days.

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  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All my schools had them. Sometimes you’d catch them doing a resync and all the hands would spin around. I think they probably couldn’t rotate CCW so had to go around the long way if they needed to roll back a few minutes.

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  • childOfMagenta@jlai.lu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could they be synchronised independently? My grandfather in France had a clock that was receiving a radio signal I think from Strasbourg. They’ve been around for a while. I remember being up late during day light hour change and i would suddenly hear the second hand rush forward. It would stop one whole hour on the switch back. I would use it to adjust my watch. Nowadays I use raw GPS and any mobile phone is synced from the network anyway.

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  • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My high school was small (graduating class under 50; five small towns combined), and in the 90s, ours were synchronized, just realized I always wondered what they used.

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Probably the clocks all used a synchronous motor. It spins baaed on ac current. After juat set the clocks to the right time when you plig them in

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      • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you, I’ll need to look into it, it was obvious they were synced because they got adjusted for daylight savings from somewhere and they all slowly changed time over the course of an hour if I recall correctly, it always fascinated me.

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Would that not mean if the power goes out after say a hurricane, the all the clocks have to be reset manually or can they somehow change them all remotely? A mechanism going threw the walls to change them from a single location sounds like a lot of work to get a synchronized clock

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