time

 

In November, I posted another postcard of this Gastown Steam Clock for when the time fell back. Yesterday, the time sprang forward, and for most of British Columbians it will be the last time.  They will stay on daylight saving time forever.  This fills me with hope for the rest of us.

though there has been some pushback, with claims that staying on Standard Time would be a better choice, and now, I'm tending to agree with that.

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I was reading that some U.S. schools are removing analogue clocks because the kids nowadays can't read the time on them.

So, sure, instead of teaching them, some believe they should simply ignore it all in favour of digital clocks.

My thoughts are that we should have more clocks. Clock towers in every town. 

Halifax

      Skegness

       Toronto

Daytona Beach, which conveniently has twelve letters, just to confuse the analogue time learners even more

steamclock

The Gastown Steam Clock was installed in the 1970s to cover up one of the vents of the downtown steam heating system.  The steam powers the winding mechanism, and it plays the Westminster Chimes every hour when tourists flock to catch the puffs of steam.

The clocks did their annual 'fall back' this weekend.  I am still trying to sort out what time it really is.

time for shelter

 An old water tower pump clock tower in Norfolk

Originally built 1862 as a water reservoir. The clock was presented to the town in 1901 by Mary Pimm in honour of her late husband.  After the war, the town clock was converted to its present use as a rest shelter.

time in the city

 Perhaps the most famous clock tower

A vintage timepiece (c1934) as a shop sign for Möbel Hansson, an antique store in Stockholm

 

 

 

 

 

a clock in the medieval Old Quarter of Torun Poland

but, the pièce de résistance

is this astronomical clock in Prague, 

the oldest clock still in operation (since 1410)

time

(I don't have time to. I don't have time to look around)
(I just run around everywhere)
(I don't) Does anybody really know what time it is
(Care) Does anybody really care
(About time) If so I can't imagine why
(Oh no, no) We've all got time enough to die

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?  Chicago

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timepieces received from Germany

tower

 

A clock tower in Elbasan, Albania. 

for Sunday Stamps- lighthouses, towers

2:13

from Czech Republic

Timekeeper

This is John Harrison's 1759 chronometer, a clock which calculated longitude while at sea. It took him over 30 years of trial and error to perfect the technology. The watch itself is 13cm in diameter and you can see it for yourself at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

 

for Sunday Stamps - your choice

orloj

received from Czech Republic, the Astronomical Clock has been keeping time for over 600 years

midtown

America's town square, Midtown Plaza mall in Rochester NY with its animated Clock of the Nations, tropical plantings, entrances to stores, shops and services. The mall is the centre of the 7 1/2 acre Midtown Plaza, the nation's largest downtown business and shopping complex under one roof.

Opened to great fanfare in 1962 and demolished in 2010

I distinctly remember visiting here, probably within the first year of its opening, so as a five year old. A souvenir model of the clock of nations was treasured for years.

orloj

A monument to Mikulas of Kadan, a master clockmaker who, with mathematician and astronomer Jan Simels, created the astronomical clock in Prague in 1410 seen below.