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Now that I think about it, could this also be an anachronism ?
That seems like an awfully precise number. Did people in ye olde Shakespearean times really measure time that precisely ?
It was just a reference to Watchmen. Rot13 spoiler:
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Well, yes, everyone gets the reference. That doesn't bear on whether it is an anachronism for anything written as an Elizebethan work. 'Anachronism':
If minutes were not commonly used in that period (as might make sense given the rarity of accurate mechanical clocks and limited accuracy of the ones that existed), then using minutes may be an anachronism.