[time-nuts] Re: Crazy Clock

[Bob Camp]

Hi

The gotcha there is that you don’t really know if the hands “nicely” come off and on 
until you have potentially nuked your clock. 

The second hand needs to be on there pretty well. It gets more drive than any other
hand. If it’s not reasonably secure, things will drift as the clock operates. 

Indeed I could start tearing various clocks apart to learn a bit more about just how
those second hands are attached ….. At this point I’m just guessing. 

Bob

> On Dec 18, 2022, at 5:15 PM, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022, 03:50 Bob Camp via time-nuts, <time-nuts at lists.febo.com <mailto:time-nuts at lists.febo.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Faking things with a DCF-77 clock might be more practical since I have no current plans
>> for trying to get “real” time that way.
> 
> 
> I had pictured coming at this problem from the other end. If you have a clock movement with press fit hands you can set it to any offset you want from what the movement thinks the time is. 
> 
> You'd have to adjust the clock each time there was a leap second, but I hear that people are working on making this not a problem.