[time-nuts] A Time-Nut's Worst Nightmare

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <518E2C65.80204 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>The end result will be a clock which in long term is showing the right 
>time, but have short term variations. Since it is a lag scheme, it will 
>also on average be behind.

Wouldn't it be easier to simply implement a random walk with a square-law
sort of gravity anchored at the right time ?

That way it would sometimes be ahead, sometimes behind, but keep
correct time on average.

And you could make the movement truly random and non-periodic.

I'm sure that's how the watchmakers guild did it.

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