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LetsRemeber Members 342 posts Location: Djibouti Occupation: Correspondent Age:	#177680 2008-05-21 11:07 GMT
	The following been happening as long as I remember: In the master bedroom of my house, clocks are all losing time. Those near the walls are lose about 5min/month, and those closer to the center of the room lose around 8min/month, from what we see. The type of clock doesn't matter: analog, digital, electric, pulley-powered, wristwatch - we've tried them all. It's a pain having to reset them every week or so! Nothing like this happens just outside the room or anywhere else in the house. We've taken a compass and a dangling bar magnet into the room on different occasions to check for magnetic field abnormalities, and nothing strange shows up. An electrician found no crossed or badly-grounded wires in the walls, ceiling, and floor. We even went on a limb and got someone from the science department at the local university to bring in a Geiger counter with no results of interest. Does anybody have an (intelligent) idea what could be happening and how to solve it without moving? EDIT ADDED JUST BEFORE CHOOSING BEST ANSWER: First, I want to let everyone know that this was a hypothetical question and not a real occurance. I see so many idiotic questions and answers on this website that I felt I should start a series of critical-thinking questions to get the mental juices flowing. Yahoo! Answers needs people answering with intelligence and not blind rhetoric and insulting rants.


Beatasone Members 362 posts Location: Belize Occupation: Pilot Age:	#177681 2008-05-21 11:12 GMT
	Part of me wants to say you have too much time on your hands, but the fact you are losing time tells me otherwise!!! Have you tried a clock that is radio signal controlled so that it frequently gets updated to keep it at the correct time. I know it isn't a solution for other watches but will help keep time constant again! I can not give a reason why it's happening, I would have gone with you being on a lay line and that its strong magnetic forces were throwing clocks off but you say it's not registering it. Try lining your walls with a layer of metal. (even tin foil) try it temporarily by keeping a clock wrapped in foil for a few days. Good luck Doctor

GiddyUp Members 359 posts Location: Albania Occupation: Detective Age:	#177682 2008-05-21 11:12 GMT
	I wouldn't move over time being off a few minutes. Don't keep any clocks in your room if it bugs you that bad..Pretty simple ehh

Moby Members 358 posts Location: Cocos Islands Occupation: Farrier Age:	#177683 2008-05-21 11:13 GMT
	Buy yourself a watch, or your sel phone will help, don't get obsessed, live is such a thing !!!!!!!!!! There are many other things to waste your time on. Good Luck

FantasyFootball Members 350 posts Location: South Georgia Occupation: Astrophysicist Age:	#177684 2008-05-21 11:14 GMT
	You're cheap and all your clocks are cheap and broken? Seriously, your house must look like Doc Browns at the start of Back to the Future. Hope you dont have any plutonium under your bed!

EgyptianWonder Members 357 posts Location: Ireland Occupation: Controller Age:	#177685 2008-05-21 11:14 GMT
	This might sound kinda stupid, but c if you can rent a seriously powerful electromagnet and just leave it in the middle of your house. maybe it will clean out the bad stuff. if that doesn't work, then get a bowl thats made out of beaten brass, it has to be brass otherwise it won't work, and hit it with a spoon wrapped in a soft cloth of some kind. you should be fine now. i had the same problem and that fixed it.

Omnious Members 346 posts Location: Singapore Occupation: Steward or stewardess Age:	#177686 2008-05-21 11:26 GMT
	Have you checked the wattage coming out of your electric outlets? Perhaps there is less wattage in that room than any other. If less poswer, then maybe the clocks can not run at full potential. Does this happen with battery powered clocks as well? If not I would suggest using a wind up clock or a battery powered clock. Remember not all clocks will run perfectly in time, many clocks have to be reset from time to time to bring them up to date (espscially wind up clocks, springs will make a clock run faster at first then slower once the spring is almost unsprung). I hope you are not in a time warp, but I do not know.