The phrase "adjust the clock" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to changing the time on a clock or a device that keeps time.
Example: "Don't forget to adjust the clock for daylight saving time this weekend."
Alternatives: "set the clock" or "change the clock."
For example, you can adjust the clock on the egg timer for situations that require time delays.
Conventional scheduling algorithms usually adjust the clock cycle duration to the execution time of the longest operations.
And that is in addition to any instances in which the referees stop to adjust the clock.
Since cluster members can overhear the cluster-head transmissions, SPiRT takes advantages of such synchronization traffic to adjust the clock of the cluster members.
In such a play, stage time will follow chronological time almost exactly; and if the drama is broken into three, four, or five acts, the spectator will expect each change of scene to adjust the clock or the calendar.
For years, the dean of Exeter refused to adjust the clock on the city's cathedral.
Computers connected by networks have long used protocols like Network Time Protocol (NTP) to adjust the clocks of the computers to show the same time of day.
But the captain figured that it would be better to adjust the clocks gradually, by increments of an hour, than to move them ahead eight hours when we finally reached the Bering Strait.
The decision of some countries to adjust the clocks twice a year as a "daylight saving" measure exaggerates the issue yet further.
When it exceeds that margin of error, an alarm sounds, and a Colgate handyman rushes up and adjusts the clock.
Extending their fictional spell, a clutch of Greenwich-Mean-Time-defying resorts have adopted their own time zones, adjusting the clock to their purposes.
