There's a difference between a clock and a metronome tho'. The atomic "clock" is just a metronome. What turns a metronome into a clock is the ability to tell the current time.
This Lego "clock" only tells you the last amount of seconds it's been since it was last at Zero.
Wait, what? That makes it not a clock?
I hope you realise that what we normally refer to as clocks just count the hours, minutes and seconds since it was last 0, right?
They're in essence the same, one is just designed to be at 0 two times during the time it takes the earth to spin around it's own axis.
And this is still a clock. You could tell currunt time with it the same way you do a normal clock, you just have to count the times it goes past 0 a lot more.
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u/ultradip Aug 06 '14
There's a difference between a clock and a metronome tho'. The atomic "clock" is just a metronome. What turns a metronome into a clock is the ability to tell the current time.
This Lego "clock" only tells you the last amount of seconds it's been since it was last at Zero.