If the Chile quake made our days shorter, would clocks and watches also run faster?

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If the Chile quake made our days shorter, therefore, making time run faster, would clocks and watches also run faster? I'm quite confused about time and how it works.

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Clocks slowed down 1.2 millionth of a second, so over 2,500 years that'll be a second. Not something you notice much.

After about 215 million years clocks would have slowed down a day.

So, every 215 million years we'll have an extra day.

Can a watch be fast because of time dialation?

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I'm wondering if the reason for some digital watches running fast could be because of time dialation? And them being fast and not slow is because the watch is programmed not to go backwards so it just goes forward? Crazy but I'm just curious

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Gravity makes time run a bit slower. If you want your watch to run fast you should get farther away from the Earth's center of gravity, like in orbit. Also movement with a speed close to that of light will make time run more slowly, but not faster. Anyway it's impossible for those kinds of factors to have any effect that would be noticed on a digital watch sitting safely on the surface of a planet, away from any black holes and not traveling with close to light speed.
Time dilation would have the same effect on you as on your watch no matter how it's programmed, and as far as physicists know time does not go backwards.

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