Inaccurate Clocks

The clock on my Windows Desktop updates the minute hand every minute. Which is fair enough. However, it does this at the end of each minute, which I think is wrong. It means that for the last thirty seconds of each minute the clock is more than 30 seconds wrong. I reckon that the minute hand should move to the nearest minute when it becomes the nearest one.

Or am I just being too pedantic, and should really turn the second hand on? (and then fret about the clock being more than half a second out…)

Comments

[Boris]

If you scale that logic upwards, doesn't it mean that you also want Windows Desktop to change the date to the next day at midday rather than midnight?

[Rob]

What a great point. How right you are. Note to self: "Logic doesn't always scale well".

[Jon]

I always think the hands should move like on real clocks, so the minute hand is constantly moving tiny amounts over the 60 seconds so it's always in the right position.