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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It is impossible to synchronize the clocks in such a way that you can actually measure the speed of light with it due to time dilation unless you define beforehand how fast the speed of light is to calculate that time dilation.

See also This or, more accessibly "Synchronization conventions"