WHAT kind of broken clock, we wondered innocently on 6 June, could ever be “right” more than twice a day? Readers have written in their droves to disabuse us of our innocence.
Let Barry Morse take the floor first: if there is a change to daylight saving time so that clocks go back, then on that day a broken 12-hour clock “may actually be right three times in one day. Assume the clock is stopped at, say, 3:00 and the clocks go back at this point. It has been right once already. In an hour’s time it’s right again and in 12 hours’ time it’s right…
