Non-motoring > Unusual Clock Miscellaneous
Thread Author: VxFan Replies: 40

 Unusual Clock - VxFan
clock.msurma.net/

Needs flash, so won't work on the iPhone.
 Unusual Clock - Dog
How amazing!
 Unusual Clock - diddy1234
It certainly is interesting.

I wonder how busy it gets just before the start of a new hour !
 Unusual Clock - crocks
It is rather addictive.
I'll have to come back in forty minutes to find out.
 Unusual Clock - Dog
Not very accurate is it :)

Musta bin about twenty of em doing the change from 14.59 to 15.00pm
 Unusual Clock - diddy1234
yeh there were a few of them.

Anyone noticed the person going to the porta loo in the back ground ?

I have not seen them leave yet.
 Unusual Clock - VxFan
>> Anyone noticed the person going to the porta loo in the back ground ?
>> I have not seen them leave yet.

Perhaps he misunderstood when one of them said they needed a number 2.
 Unusual Clock - Duncan
>> Anyone noticed the person going to the porta loo in the back ground ?
>>
>> I have not seen them leave yet.
>>

A bloke went into the loo at 08.51 and came out at 08.53.

What with that and counting the words in someone's post, I think I must try to get out more!
 Unusual Clock - crocks
Oh dear. I missed it. Only another 55 minutes to wait!
 Unusual Clock - devonite
Me thinks it twud be fun if it had a Second hand!
 Unusual Clock - diddy1234
more info here

www.standard-time.com/index2_en.php

'70 workers are building a wooden 4 x 12 m "digital" time display in real time: a work that involves 1611 changes within 24 hour period.'
 Unusual Clock - FocalPoint
"...won't work on the iPhone."

There is an app, available in App Store for $3.99.

App...arently. I don't do iWotsits.
Last edited by: FocalPoint on Mon 14 May 12 at 15:34
 Unusual Clock - Zero
midnight will be hectic.
 Unusual Clock - helicopter
Just watched them change 21:59 to 22;00 , fifteen of them rushed in with three ladders ... 20 seconds slow finishing the change .....
 Unusual Clock - Dog
This is a Cornish clock, I know its Cornish because it doesn't have a clock-face so you can't tell the time!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotehele_clock
 Unusual Clock - Roger.
Why?
 Unusual Clock - bathtub tom
A bit like the astronomical clock in the centre of Prague.

A local told me it was best to stand and watch the faces of the underwhelmed!

;>)
 Unusual Clock - Armel Coussine
There's a good clock in Wells cathedral. On the hour, or some hours anyway, these tin knights on horses rush round in an arc prodding each other out of the saddle with lances. I think.

There are quarterjacks too, more sober.
 Unusual Clock - Dog
>>Why?<<

According to wiki, it just had a bell that rang on the hour, or thereabouts.
 Unusual Clock - Fullchat
Did I just spend 6 minutes of my life watching that ? :-)
 Unusual Clock - VxFan
They'd have saved themselves half a day if it was a 12 hour clock and not a 24 hour one.
 Unusual Clock - FocalPoint
"They'd have saved themselves half a day if it was a 12 hour clock and not a 24 hour one."

Maths is not my strong subject, but surely there would still need to be the same number of changes? Maybe you wouldn't need to do complex shapes like 23:00 (11:00 is simpler), but it's still one change every minute.
Last edited by: FocalPoint on Tue 15 May 12 at 09:18
 Unusual Clock - bathtub tom
FP. Your profile doesn't say if you're blonde.

;>)
 Unusual Clock - FocalPoint
You mean there isn't really a team of men rushing about every minute? It's not pre-recorded, is it? I'm SO disappointed.

[Sighs]
Last edited by: FocalPoint on Tue 15 May 12 at 10:01
 Unusual Clock - VxFan
>> FP. Your profile doesn't say if you're blonde.
>> ;>)

Someone understood what I meant then. (no, not about FP being blonde)

Record 12 hours worth of time changes, then repeat the same footage, with a changing backdrop to simulate day/night time.
 Unusual Clock - Focusless
I was a bit disappointed to (eventually) realise it was just a recording, although I guess it does something clever(?) so that the playback starts at the correct point corresponding to the current time. So if the playback pauses for some reason (connection issues), it 'loses' time.

Not very practical is it :)
 Unusual Clock - L'escargot
Well, I've seen it in daylight. Now I need to see it when it's dark.
 Unusual Clock - Bagpuss
It's available as an iPhone App, apparently, called Standard Time. It was filmed in the Berlin Skulpturpark in May 2010.
 Unusual Clock - Duncan
>> It's available as an iPhone App, apparently, called Standard Time. It was filmed in the
>> Berlin Skulpturpark in May 2010.
>>

My browser says it is in Polish and offers to translate it?
 Unusual Clock - L'escargot
Some of the bits of wood are starting to sag ~ presumably because of wear in the holes resulting from the large number of times the bolts have been fitted in and out the holes.
;-)
Last edited by: L'escargot on Wed 16 May 12 at 09:46
 Unusual Clock - Dog
You're getting to be like Duncan, L'es.

:}
 Unusual Clock - L'escargot
At the moment it's eight minutes slow.
 Unusual Clock - Focusless
>> At the moment it's eight minutes slow.

As mentioned above, it's just a recording - if the playback 'pauses' then that time is lost.
 Unusual Clock - L'escargot
>> >> At the moment it's eight minutes slow.
>>
>> As mentioned above, it's just a recording - if the playback 'pauses' then that time
>> is lost.
>>

Us gastropods are slow on the uptake.
:-D
 Unusual Clock - Ted
Here's another unusual clock.....click on the clock face and see what happens.

lovedbdb.com/nudemenClock/index2.html

Ted
Last edited by: Ted on Thu 24 May 12 at 22:34
 Unusual Clock - Old Navy
And another.

tinyurl.com/d45a9tg
 Unusual Clock - L'escargot
And another. tinyurl.com/d4ggqsf
 Unusual Clock - Mr. Ecs
No, snail. It's rubbish. Is that you in there?
 Unusual Clock - L'escargot
>> No, snail. It's rubbish. Is that you in there?
>>

I just said "And another". I didn't say it wasn't rubbish.
:-D
 Unusual Clock - Mr. Ecs
Yes but the thread started with a clever item added to by others. Just thought you were posting similar, obviously not. Come on....is that you being filmed in that box ;-))
 Unusual Clock - L'escargot
>> ........... is that you being filmed in that box
>> ;-))
>>

If you'd like to think it is, then yes.
:-D
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