The clock here is known as the Shepard’s Gate Clock and it resides at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, London. Those of you familiar with time will no doubt recognize the Royal Greenwich Observatory as the center of the time-keeping world. Or at least, it used to be.
This clock is actually a slave clock to the master clock located in the observatory. However, it is significant in that it is quite possibly the first clock to display Greenwich Mean Time to the public. That same time was transmitted to other clocks around the observatory, as well as to the London Bridge where a repeater send the signal to clocks around England. It helped to unify timekeeping in Great Britain, something that was important since the creation of the railway.
So, in a very real way, this is the public face of the clock that rules them all.
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Nice clock but that's not a British Yard.
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Now that's a yard!
But you only have a half-yard in front of you(right
edge of pic)!
Watch the Prof- he's already admitted to screwing up
the French weights & measures on a lark-lord knows
what he did with Imperial standards!
That large zero is bugging me. They could have gone with a Roman XXIIII or an early medieval N.
"Time Is On My Side"
The Rolling Stones…………………………….
The big thing instead made me think Chicago Transit Authority:
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A visit to Greenwich is highly recommended: amuse yourself by jumping back and forth over the line, then walk down the hill to a pub that Charles Dickens used to frequent. Mind you, I think management would prefer he not reappear…
You can do this at the Hoover Dam as well and, like you said, I'd recommend that as well
Personally, I'm fond of 4 corners in NM. You can stand on the intersection of both lines, in four states at once.
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I'm going to! Next Thursday! For real: I'm going to Vegas first. You know, for the NASCARS.
Get pictures
Ok this is confusing me, don't they know that there is only one time zone, EST?
No, I believe you'll find that EST (European Summer Time) spans several time zones.
No no Eastern Standard Time. Jeez even stole our initials for the one and only time zone.
EST is estimated, right? that's how I keep time…. sun is up. it's day, sun is near overhead, it's about noon. Luna ? well…
The whole time thing can just be mind boggling at times. We went to London for a week for our honeymoon. One the way over the daylight saving time kicked in in one country, on the way back it kicked in in the other. The pilots for our flight back got it confused and we ended up leaving several hours late.
Also if you want to know what time it is in Indiana (for some strange reason) you pretty much have to call up somebody exactly where you want to know what time it is and ask them. Parts of the state are eastern time zone, parts are central, parts of the state observe daylight saving time, parts don't.
Yes, because Hoosiers can't figure out how to reset their clocks. It's been irritating me since 1986!
I'm surprised Swatch hasn't bought the naming rights yet