Clocks that run slower

Time runs incessantly. Time pieces, such as clocks and watches attempt to accurately track the passing of time, the more accurately the better the time piece. The heart of a time piece is the “movement” which defines the rate the time indicators progress, such as the hands on an analog watch or clock or the digits in a digital time piece. Accurate and reliable time pieces are certainly useful and sometimes even necessary for example, to efficiently coordinate public transport such as buses, trains and airplanes, their passengers and crew and other industries such as manufacturing facilities where “time is of the essence” and “just in time” operations.

But there are occasions when accurate time is not necessarily advantageous. An acute example is the taking of tests and exams. As most persons as students have experienced, time as measured by accurate time pieces seems to run quicker during an examination, often “running out of time” before answers to exams can be written down for the teacher to grade.

Thus, there is the need for a time piece to run slower than accurate, slow enough to allow all answers to an exam or test to be expressed completely and accurately. I propose the Test-Time-Piece with a slower movement than an accurate time piece, a movement paced to the needs of the student not the teacher.