Which navigational error increases most significantly when a chronometer gains seconds per day during transoceanic voyage?

💡 Explanation

When a chronometer gains time, accumulated error in time leads to increasing longitudinal error because longitude is determined by time difference between local noon and Greenwich Mean Time. Therefore longitude error is primary consequence, rather than latitude/declination/altitude, which are time-independent observations.

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