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THE SELF-ADJUSTING CLOCK


RAY: It used to be that when we changed into or out of Daylight Saving Time, you had to manually change all the clocks and appliances in your house. Now, many of them are wired into sources that change them for us. So, for example, you change your wall clock and your microwave clock, but your computer, your cell phone, and your cable TV clocks automatically show the newly changed time without you having to do anything.
There is, however, a certain clock in my house that is not wired into anything. In fact, it runs on a battery, and it reads correctly all the time without my having to change it every spring and fall at the time changes.
The question is, how does it do this?


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Your sons do it for you???

Or is it a sun dial?



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He lives in AZ. No time changes.

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There are battery operated clocks that sync over the air with the atomic clock.

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cadiver wrote:

There are battery operated clocks that sync over the air with the atomic clock.


This is what I was thinking.

We have two of them.



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ed11563 wrote:
cadiver wrote:

There are battery operated clocks that sync over the air with the atomic clock.


This is what I was thinking.

We have two of them.


 "Now, many of them are wired into sources that change them for us."

I took this to mean that atomic clocks would be out of the question. I'm not sure 'wired' is meant to be taken literally.



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chef wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
cadiver wrote:

There are battery operated clocks that sync over the air with the atomic clock.


This is what I was thinking.

We have two of them.


 "Now, many of them are wired into sources that change them for us."

I took this to mean that atomic clocks would be out of the question. I'm not sure 'wired' is meant to be taken literally.


My computers are "wired" to the Internet. 



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I checked the answer.

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-- Edited by cadiver on Monday 18th of April 2016 10:07:20 AM

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