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Those are all questions no clock can answer though. They require state from the physical world over and above knowing the current time.

It’s a wild misconception to think that a flooring clock is somehow more late than a rounding clock and it’s if anything an even more crazy misconception to think that a clock can tell you whether something in the physical world has or hasn’t happened.



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