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#1

Tuesday Puzzle

An easy one for you.

On Friday, April 1, 1898, three new clocks were all set going precisely at the same

time�twelve noon. At noon on the following day it was found that clock A had kept

perfect time, that clock B had gained exactly one minute, and that clock C had lost

exactly one minute. Now, supposing that the clocks B and C had not been regulated, but

all three allowed to go on as they had begun, and that they maintained the same rates of

progress without stopping, on what date and at what time of day would all three pairs of

hands again point at the same moment at twelve o'clock?

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Presumably you want this done w/o the aid of a date calculator?

If I am right, it was noon of the day when there was disastrous flooding of the Wyoming River in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

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#3

I'm so confused.

I'm full of twelves and hours which leads to days, which seems awfully long for that to happen again. It leaps into my adding skills subtracting two different annuals and I end up in the same month that Julius Caesar hated but was likey burned by that time...

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#4

What time?

And be careful not to leap to the wrong conclusion.

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My guess is the same day that:

President �mile Loubet of France announced that he would pardon the man who had assaulted him at the Auteuil Hippodrome in June 1899. Baron Christiani had been sentenced to four years in prison. Loubet pardoned 50 other persons.

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#6

Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!

Careless mistakes eat me alive on puzzles like this one!

With the addition of "noon" to the answer, I agree with Jim.

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#7

If I noodled right

I'm 720 days out which means a leap from 1898 to 1900.

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Gary is almost right except that there is a slight gotcha in this one. In this case, slightly wrong as 1900 was not a leap year, even though it is divisible by 4. The answer is March 22, 1900.

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#9

A bit more

1800 was not a leap

year, nor was 1900. On the other hand, however, to make the calendar more nearly agree

with the sun's course, every fourth hundred year is still considered bissextile.

Consequently, 2000, 2400, 2800, 3200, etc., will all be leap years.

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If I had thought of it, I wouldn't have admitted that my answer was dumb, but claimed that I thought you were talking about 24-hour clocks!. Jim had it right, along with the no leap year.

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Somgum! I was not aware of the only one in four hundred year designation with a leap day. I spent time trying to figure out if the number of days passed February when it didn't matter. Razzlefratz. Whammyed again. The leap day question is a good bar bet.

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