At work, there’s an analog clock on the wall near my desk.

It’s typically about 5 minutes fast.  I’m basing this by comparing its time to two different cell phones – that automatically have their time set from the cell towers – and the time on our network, which agrees with my cell phones.  I’ve even checked the USNC clock via time.gov.

I’m pretty certain of the time difference between this clock and reality, is all I’m saying.

So: if I’m leaving after most people have gone home, I take it off the wall and set it to the proper time, or even a couple of minutes slow because I thought it was going fast over time.

I found out last week, by overhearing a conversation between my boss and one of my co-workers, that the clock is really getting under his skin because “It used to keep the right time, and now it goes slow all the time!”

He wasn’t quite frothing-at-the-mouth mad, but he had that little twitch to his voice that makes me wonder if there’s a fire axe anywhere on the premises and, if so, maybe it should be removed.

And then I watched him carefully set the clock again 5 minutes fast.

So my moral quandary is this, now:  Do I keep setting it back to the right time and see how long it takes before he snaps?