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by draw_down 3376 days ago
I mean, come on. It's a clock! Surely seconds are relevant.

I understand that everyone might not want to see them, but this isn't a great argument for leaving off a feature that is surely useful in other circumstances. The article is interesting, but I don't think these sort of technical explanations Chen gets into should be accepted as valid reasons to leave out a feature. They're interesting in context, but we should all be able to recognize that showing seconds is a good feature for a clock. Even the team in question would have left the feature in if it had performed OK at the time, which indicates they agreed with its utility.

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Lots of broken clocks in my house... Alarm clock, microwave, stove, wall, ... none of them show seconds.