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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A strictly logical clock for a 24-hour day would have 0 at the top with 1 on the right and 23 on the left. And it would be only ever set to UTC.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

UTC has leap seconds. We can do better. PTP/TAI for lyfe.

A perfectly logical clock would use a radio broadcast to count off seconds since a predefined epoch. Put a few of them way up high, so more people can see it, and make them so astonishingly precise that you could tell where you are just by listening.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

They should put atomic clocks in the GPS satellites for exactly this purpose.