[carapace]

> an unexpected drift in the clocks

In every kind of clock.

I would hope in this scenario that that would have been noticed and it would have aroused sufficient curiosity to investigate and eventually discover that the effect was due to time itself flowing at a different rate.

[petters]

Imagine trying to find that bug.

Finally, after an enormous effort being able to tell your manager that the error is in the space-time of the universe.

[carapace]

Riiight?

It reminds me of something I read about the search for what we would now call "violations of conservation of energy". Scientists kept coming up with more experiments to try to show this phenomenon, but none of them worked. Eventually they were forced to conclude that that's just the way it is:

"A perfect conspiracy is a law of nature."