I have been trying to rectify why clocks continue to start. The only reason I can think is that there are different clock hands that move in different durations of time per day.
POTUS seems to always drop us clues. Said something about us turning the hands the wrong way and that it has 4 cuts in it. Spurred a lot of the reverse clock stuff.
Just recently he emphasized (multiple times) that during his press conferences on NK, he was in the 25th hour. Which would make sense considering we started a new clock on 6/10 that had just gotten back to 00:00.
One sticking point I’ve had was that we should use the election date as the beginning of a clock if they happen to run back that far. Might even be further. Anyway I noticed something pretty interesting working on the assumption that the hands line up at 00:00 or other even increments on the day the clocks start.
From Election Day, 11/8/16 to 6/9/18, which would be the last day of the 24th hour of one of our current clocks, is 578 days.
Halve that, and it’s 289 days. That’s 17 x 17 anons. Coincidence?
Also, take the number 17 and start going around the clock with minute hand increments. 17, 34, 51, then instead of 68, go to 8 and continue. Pattern goes like this:
17 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 09
34 - 33 - 32 - 31 - 30 - 29 - 28 - 27 - 26
51 - 50 - 49 - 48 - 47 - 46 - 45 - 44 - 43
08 - 07 - 06 - 05 - 04 - 03 - 02 - 01 - 00
25 - 24 - 23 - 22 - 21 - 20 - 19 - 18
42 - 41 - 40 - 39 - 38 - 37 - 36 - 35
59 - 58 - 57 - 56 - 55 - 54 - 53 - 52
So, before any minute markers would repeat using a delta of 17, you would do one 12 hour or 360 rotation around the clock, 17 times.
But we work on 24 hour cycles. So back to the coincidence above.
If, starting at 00:00 on Election Day, we moved a clock hand forward 17 minutes every day, we would touch every minute of the clock exactly 17 times (assuming we treat 13:10 differently then 1:10 in this example) and end up back at 00:00 on 6/10, just in time to start the clock again. (Or on 6/09, we’d be at 23:43.)
Another way to lay out the minute markers could be using this 17 sequence since it perfectly goes around the minutes without repeating. So 1=17, 2=34, 3=51, 4=8, 5=25, 6=42, 7=59, 8=16…. so on.
What is a sequence?
Cross posted on clock thread here if you’d prefer to jump back and forth like I do.