clocks

British schools are replacing analog clocks with digital ones to help clueless students Okay, so it's not just the Brit kids. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/05/02/british-schools-are-replacing-analog-clocks-with-digital-ones-to-help-clueless-students

First, one or two people report it in Palermo: http://en.rian.ru/strange/20110611/164569661.html Then it becomes "all" Palermo have noticed it: http://www.techeye.net/software/sicily-is-15-minutes-ahead-of-the-world Then "Sicily's clocks all jump forward"...

I'm busy fixing it. What an interesting thing. Some of the wood isn't in great shape and I had to go to the doll house shop to find hardwood doweling as thin as I needed. The roots simultaneously of all modern machines pass through this sort of mechanism, and it is amazing how crude they...

On another forum a correspondent reports "Woke up this morning and saw our bedroom alarm clock had stopped at 4.40 so I went into the kitchen to get a new battery and the kitchen clock had stopped at the exact same time. Neither of them needed their batteries changing in the end, they're both...

Real mid-day and mid-night Conventional clocks can be misleading. For example for the City of Ottawa Canada which has a longitude of 75 degrees 45 minutes west and a latitude of 45 degrees 16.2 minutes north, on Feb 1, 2006 the time of local sunrise was 7:24 am EST and the time of local sunset...

The best analogy I've ever thought of, I thought of after seeing another post by a JREF Forum member where he stated "Even a broken clock is right twice a day." Now what if we get more specific? The number of times that the clock is correct decrease exponentially as it becomes more accurate...

Has anyone else read this modern fairy tale? I believe it's been out of print for years, and it took me ages to find a copy in the pre-internet days. I started re-reading it again last night. It's not easy to categorize and the illustrations are by Marc Simont, not Thurber. Creepy. It...

The next generation of atomic clocks will be so accurate they should still be within a second of the corect time when the world ends billions of years from now. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2767491.stm I thought this paragraph was a bit much: Super-accurate...