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Yesterday you took a time tick using the 1200 GMT broadcast, and the chronometer read 11h 59m 59s. Today at the 1200 GMT time tick the chronometer read 00h 00m 01s. What is the chronometer error?

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Yesterday you took a time tick using the 1200 GMT broadcast, and the chronometer read 11h 59m 59s. Today at the 1200 GMT time tick the chronometer read 00h 00m 01s. What is the chronometer error?

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• Chronometer error is always stated as how the chronometer differs from true GMT at the moment of comparison • Difference between the two days shows whether the chronometer is gaining or losing time each day • Remember that GMT (signal) is correct, and the chronometer is what you compare against it

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• On each day, ask: at 1200 GMT (true time), what did the chronometer show? Was it ahead or behind? And by how much each day? • Compare yesterday’s indicated error with today’s indicated error: did the chronometer move closer to the correct time or farther away? • Translate that change into the standard way we state chronometer error: "fast" or "slow/losing" followed by how many seconds

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• Be clear about which is true time (GMT signal) and which is the ship’s chronometer • Carefully track the direction: if the chronometer reading goes from just before 1200 to just after 1200 when true time is 1200, is that gaining or losing? • Make sure the final wording matches the standard form: “fast X seconds” or “losing X seconds”.

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Question 1 of 2066636ee928f7522a1c51a79e

Yesterday you took a time tick using the 1200 GMT broadcast, and the chronometer read 11h 59m 59s. Today at the 1200 GMT time tick the chronometer read 00h 00m 01s. What is the chronometer error?

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Yesterday you took a time tick using the 1200 GMT broadcast, and the chronometer read 11h 59m 59s. Today at the 1200 GMT time tick the chronometer read 00h 00m 01s. What is the chronometer error?

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