ANSWER: October 1 at 1 PM. The watch loses 2 minutes each hour, or 48 minutes every day. Because of the AM/PM indicator, it would have to lose a full 24 hours before it was correct again. This would take 720 hours, or exactly 30 days.
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posted by Valerie on 8-18-2008 at 8:56 am
But the date would be wrong, because your watch would have slowed down by a full day, therefore your watch would say Sept. 30. I wonder if you would ever get back around to the correct time AND date…
posted by Scott on 8-18-2008 at 2:28 pm
Of course, it doesn’t say the watch has a date indicator. I just figured a fancy gold watch with diamonds is bound to have that feature.
posted by Scott on 8-18-2008 at 2:37 pm
To answer Scott’s question I believe it would be August 25, 2038 at 1:00 pm (the watch would read August 25, 2037).
You lose 1 day every 30 days, so you you would have to go through 365 30 day cycles (or 10,950 days) to get back to the same day. Assuming you begin on 9/1/08 at 1:00 pm you would end on 08/25/2038 at 1:00 pm.
posted by jason on 8-18-2008 at 4:58 pm
A twist: What if he bought it on October 15? (Or some other day such that you would have to consider daylight saving time.)
posted by robin on 8-19-2008 at 2:03 am