[time-nuts] clock and cannon at noon story

[Hal Murray]

mblazer at satx.rr.com said:
> Wouldn't the watchmaker notice that his clock is always a few seconds fast?
> If the cannon is a mile away, the watchmaker would be adjusting the clock
> so that 'noon' would sound around tea time after about 10 years. 

I see two possible answers:

The people listening to the story aren't time-nutty enough to think of that.

The watchmaker is a time-nut and corrects for the delay due to the speed of 
sound.

The real question is how nutty is the watchmaker?  Does his delay correction 
involve temperature and/or humidity?  Does he collect the data and graph it?  
Does he have an ADEV plot in his shop window?


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