Don't watch the clock, do as it does: Keep Going!
November 3, 2018 6:42 AM Subscribe
Wait he changes the clocks for daylight savings time A FEW DAYS BEFORE?!!!?? That seems needlessly unhelpful.
posted by Grandysaur at 8:51 AM on November 3, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Grandysaur at 8:51 AM on November 3, 2018 [2 favorites]
There are too many public clocks in my own city that have been allowed to break down, showing the correct time only twice a day.
I suppose public clocks aren't as high a priority nowadays that accurate timekeeping is more affordable and portable. But I do kind of like the sentiment of, "Here is a tiny bit of useful information available to anyone passing by."
posted by RobotHero at 8:54 AM on November 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
I suppose public clocks aren't as high a priority nowadays that accurate timekeeping is more affordable and portable. But I do kind of like the sentiment of, "Here is a tiny bit of useful information available to anyone passing by."
posted by RobotHero at 8:54 AM on November 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
I suppose if you wanted all the clocks to go back at the same time he'd have to arrange for a bunch of clock deputies for the occasion.
posted by RobotHero at 9:00 AM on November 3, 2018
posted by RobotHero at 9:00 AM on November 3, 2018
Until, one day, an unlikely accident drives him to crime, where he uses his clock powers to sow chaos until Batman ends his reign of temporal terror.
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line!
posted by TedW at 12:09 PM on November 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line!
posted by TedW at 12:09 PM on November 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
I love old clocks. My dad collected antique clocks while I was a kid and Westminster Quarters were part of the soundtrack of my childhood. Unfortunately they were all stolen from storage just before I graduated from high school. Finding a similar clock or two has been on my life-long to do list but for now I enjoy hearing clocks like these chime. I wonder who will replace Mr. Schneider when the time comes.
Once, because of a glitch, the Herald Square clock kept tolling incessantly, recalled Mr. Schneider. When he showed up to fix it he was nearly accosted by a group of homeless men who complained that they could no longer sleep.
“One of them said, ‘Thank God you’re here — we haven’t been able to sleep for two days,’” Mr. Schneider recalled. “Once I fixed it, they were my best friends.”
My dad joked that when house guests had overstayed their welcome he would set all the clocks 5 minutes apart at night so they chimed constantly.
posted by bendy at 2:08 PM on November 3, 2018 [3 favorites]
Once, because of a glitch, the Herald Square clock kept tolling incessantly, recalled Mr. Schneider. When he showed up to fix it he was nearly accosted by a group of homeless men who complained that they could no longer sleep.
“One of them said, ‘Thank God you’re here — we haven’t been able to sleep for two days,’” Mr. Schneider recalled. “Once I fixed it, they were my best friends.”
My dad joked that when house guests had overstayed their welcome he would set all the clocks 5 minutes apart at night so they chimed constantly.
posted by bendy at 2:08 PM on November 3, 2018 [3 favorites]
I drive by a strip mall with a digital clock and temperature display. They are always wrong, to a comical level. In October, it has shown 72 degrees all month. I wish they would just turn it off. Since the time just changed, there is a small chance it will be correct for a few days.
I just read a YA fantasy novel called Timekeeper by Tara Sim. It started off pretty dull but once it got into the world-building stuff with time and how the clocks actually control the time instead of just measuring it, it got better. It is, of course, a trilogy.
posted by soelo at 10:32 AM on November 4, 2018
I just read a YA fantasy novel called Timekeeper by Tara Sim. It started off pretty dull but once it got into the world-building stuff with time and how the clocks actually control the time instead of just measuring it, it got better. It is, of course, a trilogy.
posted by soelo at 10:32 AM on November 4, 2018
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