Couldn't a broken clock be right THREE times a day

[A-Schwarzenegger]

when you set your clocks back on daylight savings time
or the opposite of daylight savings time or whatever it is?
If so, the cliche itself should be adjusted or at least have
an asterisk.

[ZombieNixon]

1. Well, unfortunately,

the phrase "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, except on the days when the time is changed to or from Daylight Savings Time, in which case it's right three times (offer not valid in Arizona, excepting the Navajo Reservation)" sounds a bit stupid.

Why would you change the broken clock for DST, anyway? :shrug:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. You wouldn't change it.

It would have to be already at 1 o'clock.
So it would have had to have gotten brokened at 1 o'clock.

[ZombieNixon]

3. So that would only work going from DST to ST,

since you change it back. Conceivably, going from ST to DST, if it was stopped at the right time, you might skip right over it, an then it would be right no times that day.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. Well, that would be even more better different.

To go from right two times a day
to right no times a day
is more better different
than going from right two times a day
to right three times a day.
Therefour, I approve of it and will pass it on
to The Great Greenwich Committee
for futher discussal.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. So what you have to say is this:

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, unless it's set at a time between 1:00 and 1:59 on the day when the time is changed to Daylight Savings Time in which case it's right three times or on the day on the day after daylight savings time if the clock is set from a time between 2:00 and 2:59, in which case it is right only once, (offer not valid in Arizona, excepting the Navajo Reservation, part of Indiana, all of Hawaii, and a few other states/counties)

[ZombieNixon]

7. Yes...proverb worthy, that one...

:eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Rolls right off the tonque, that one does

[LynzM]

15. LMAO over here, Rabrrrr...

:rofl: Damn, dude!

[Left Is Write]

6. No...it would still be right once.

[ZombieNixon]

9. Yeah, that's right.

Sorry, my goof.

[CarpeDiebold]

8. technically

it IS right 3 times a day since exactly 24 hours have passed since the 1st time it was right.

[ZombieNixon]

11. That depends of your definition of "day,"

since the Earth only takes 23h56m to rotate on its axis.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. But a day is not actually 24 hours

it is 24 hours minus dt, the smallest possible fractional amount of time, which would be one period of radiation of the Cesium-133 atom at zero kelvin, which is, 1/9192631770 seconds.

[Ptah]

13. 2 times out of 86,400 seconds a day.

No even close enough. Throw that damn clock away!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

14. So, it's settled, then. A broken clock is right

one, two, three, or no times a day, depending
on the day.

[uppityperson]

16. Is the clock moving across the earth?

ignoring relativistic space speed time scrunching, if it is moving at all, the number of times it is right changes as location relative to the earth changes.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

17. Yes, now that you mention it, it is moving across the earth.

I want it to be right as many times a day as it can,
even if it only for one day and has to take a week off
afterwards to rest and recuperate.

[alkaline9]

18. can't we just change it to be...

...a broken clock is still right more often than Dubya?

[undeterred]

19. You need a hobby.

:shrug:

[Strong Atheist]

20. ROFLAMO! That was the funniest thing I

have seen all day! Thanks, I REALLY needed a good laugh ...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. Gee, you heard the one about the chicken?

[Strong Atheist]

33. No...

(he says)

tell me about the chicken ...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

27. My hobby is deterring you from not responding.

[RandomKoolzip]

21. I once convinced my fifth grade math teacher that you could travel

through time using the Concorde supersonic passenger jet.

It's easy: take off from New York at 4:00 PM EST, and arrive in LA and 4:45 EST, which is actually 12:45 PST!

Later I learned to appreciate the meditative silence detention hall could afford.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

25. Meditative silence stops time, too.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. A broken clock could be correct any number of times per day

depending on how fast it runs.

[InsultComicDog]

23. Good point

...the expression is "stopped clock", not "broken clock".

[A-Schwarzenegger]

29. Smarty pants.

[Spider Jerusalem]

24. It could be right thrice or even four times a day...

if you transported it across time zones.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

30. Once, twice, thrice, ... what comes next?

[UncleSepp]

26. My husband's broken clock is right many times in the day

It is one of those clocks that sets itself, and that's what is broken. The minute hand sweeps all the way around the clock about every forty-five seconds. He keeps it on the wall because it's funny. It's a strange thing to see!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

31. Could you post a picture of it?

[UncleSepp]

32. I'll see if I can take an mpeg of it tomorrow... it's hilarious!