My clock is right six times a day. RIDDLE

Your clock is an app with a screen saver and you have 6 alarms set.

11:11
3:33
4:44
5:55
2:22
1:11

Its upside down digital watch

no

close, but not quite!

Thats a microwave oven, its not a clock.

Driving down the around the block on ya goldwing. Keeping it real. Sandwiches packed. Sun is shining but turns to grey. Something isnt right. This isnt you! You got cucked. At one time you were a Jeremy

CORRECT!!!

Your changing time zones.

You're in low earth orbit.

I was thinking about GPS satellites. They make the clocks run slightly fast to compensate for relativity.

Digital clock in a mirror.

You misspelled 'Glock'
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It's a digital clock that can be read in a mirror or upside down. So it could read 01:20, 01:50, 02:10 and 05:10. It will read correctly eight times in a day.

On daylight savings the clocks go back a stopped clock can read correctly on three occasions.

Also, a digital clock that has seconds... But I am not going to try and compute that. I was supposed to be out of the house already

A broken clock will be correct twice a day.

But a broken clock on an international flight path that circles the earth will be correct many more times a day because you are changing through lots of different time zones.

Do I get a cookie now?

OR

instead of using a 24 hour military clock or a 12 hour civilian clock, you are using a 4 hour clock (24/6=4). AM through ZM. LOL!

OR

You clock is in hexadecimal or quattrodecimal format?

OR

You're a time-tard?

Both the minute and hour hand have the same length, and there is a daylight savings change during the day. That would do it.

A clock loses ten minutes each hour. If the clock is set at 12 o'clock noon, what is the correct time when the clock reads 3:00 PM?



T = H(5/6) ... accounting for the loss of 10 minutes each hour (-10 minutes / 60 minutes).
H = T(6/5) ... solve for H
When T = 3 ... H = 3 3/5 hours... with 3 hours plus 3:36
The basis of this is that "..the clock is set at 12 o'clock noon ...", meaning that not only is the clock set to the time of noon, but it is also set AT noon by the wording of the riddle.
Ron: So, to make things simpler, let's go by elapsed minutes rather than absolute time. We'll start at 12:00 being minute 0. Now I'm going to call big-'T' the real time and little-'t' the bad clock's time.
T minutes t minutes
--- ------- --- -------
12:00 0 12:00 0
1:00 60 12:50 50
2:00 120 1:40 100
3:00 180 2:30 150
4:00 240 3:20 200

The above table is just a guide. It tells us the answer will be between 3:00 and 4:00 real time T and will be closer to 4:00 than to 3:00. Here's the calculation:
Since for every 60 minutes of real time, the clock loses 10 minutes that makes 50 minutes.

Therefore:

t = 50/60 * T
thus:
t = 5/6 * T
So, when t is 3:00 pm (180 minutes past 0)
T = 6/5 * t = 6/5 * 180 = 216
The the real time when the clock says 3:00 is 216 minutes past 0. Therefore then the clock says 3:00, the real time is 3:36

The answer is 3:36pm. The clock loses 1 minute in every 6, so 6 minutes time shows 5 on the clock. To multiply into hours on the clock 5x12 =60 mins. Three hours is therefore 36x5. So three hours on the clock is 36 x 5 = 180 minutes. 12 + 180 minutes (3 hours) = 3pm. SO to find the real time equivalent, 5 clock minutes = 6 real time minutes, so 36 x 6 = 216 = 3 hours 36 minutes. So the correct time is 3:36pm!!!

Solution: For every hour, the clock moves only 50 minutes, or at the rate of 60/50 ->>1.2 Therefore, at 3:00 PM , 3 hours X 1.2 = 3.6 hours or 3 hours and 36 minutes

The correct time is 3:36 PM when the clock reads 3:00 PM
You must first calculate, as a percentage, the speed variance between your broken clock and a "correct time" clock. Your broken clock is operating a speed that is .833% slower than a correct clock. Conversely, a correct clock is operating at a speed that is 1.2% faster than your broken clock.

Thus, at 1:00 on your broken clock you can multiply 60 min. * 1.2% clock minutes = 1:12 (.2% of 60 = 12) With the next full hour on your broken clock complete, you know that a real clock would have moved another 1hr and 12 minutes, and would now show a time of 2:24. Finally, one more hour passes on your broken clock, you add 1hr and 12 minutes to a real clock, and find that it reads 3:36 .


If the clock loses 10 minutes every hour that also means it loses 1 minute every 6 minutes right? So I did a table that looked like this Real Time Clock Display
12:00 12:00
1:00 12:50
2:00 1:40
3:00 2:30
3:30 2:55 (loses 5 minutes every half hour, so
only 25 minutes shown for the last half hour)

Now there is only 5 minutes that needs to run on the clock display, which would require real time to be 6 minutes (clock will lose a minute), so the answer would be 3:36 pm, no?

And finally, the clock loses 10 minutes every hour, so that's 10 out of every 60, or one sixth. That means that 10 seconds out of every minute are lost. After one hour, the clock reads 12:50 two hours: 1:40 three hours: 2:30 three and a half hours: 2:55 and for the last five minutes, you can use the equation: 5 = 5/6x
since only 5/6 of every minute are added to the time shown on the clock this comes out to
6=x, and so six minutes would pass for the clock to add the last five minutes. Hence, the clock would read 3:00 when the actual time was 3:36

Last Edited by JustSayNoToHillary on 01/21/2017 07:42 PM

A stopped clock on the space station?

It's "a stopped clock" not a broken clock. A broken clock may not ever be correct in a day

Your clock is upside down.
The 6 times it is correct are:
1:01, 1:11, 8:08, 8:18, 10:01, 11:11

Only these 6 times will read the same right side up and upside down.

The clock is running backwards.

its a incorrectly functioning digital clock....

the third digit is the only one that functions properly, the other digits can only correctly show the 0 digit

the six times the clock is right are :

0:00
0:10
0:20
0:30
0:40
0:50

These are the 6 times which look exactly the same when viewed in the mirror. The ones marked UD also work upside down.

10:01 AM/PM UD
11:11 AM/PM UD
12:51 AM/PM

If your clock shows leading zeros for the hour (not typical), then these times would also work:

01:10 AM/PM UD
02:50 AM/PM
05:20 AM/PM

If it's a 24 hour clock, then these 6 times would work:

10:01 UD
11:11 UD
12:51
15:21
20:05
21:15
22:55

Last Edited by Gimme Some Truth on 01/21/2017 07:07 PM

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 right side.

dlclalc em

"sometimes even letters and nonsense characters."

- I think that is an important clue. I guess it that means it is a digital clock with some of the pixels missing, but still with functioning electronics.

But what pixels might be missing for an electronic clock to show the correct time 6 times a day?

That is one tough nut!

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