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drnoam@diasp.org

People in the #UK are easily confused, apparently. At least those in #London.

Clocks across the UK will go back an hour at 02:00 on Sunday, offering many people an extra 60 minutes in bed.

If you were expecting a spectacle of Big Ben's hands being wound back, you will be disappointed.

That is not going to happen - instead, it will be manually paused, with lights on the four clock faces turned off at 22:00 on Saturday.

The clock will be stopped and restarted at midnight. The lights will then come back on at 02:00, when the correct time will be displayed.

"This is so people looking up do not wonder why the hands are going round and get confused," said clock mechanic Alex Jeffrey.

I suspect it takes more than a few minutes to rewind Big Ben, and they don't want to risk embarrassment. I actually think a lot of people would enjoy seeing the hands going backwards.

#winter #time #clocks #BigBen

danie10@squeet.me

This video animation is one of the best explanations I’ve seen of the technology of London’s Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) Clock Tower

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It just boggles my mind that back in the 1840s such design technology could build a clock so high, with four 7 m diameter clock dials, and with around 2 seconds accuracy per day. To also know how to add or subtract a penny to the pendulum to adjust the accuracy, is also just a testament to the ingenuity of that age.

This video is one of the best explanations I’ve seen of how all the technology works together, in easy to understand animation.

Watch https://youtu.be/H3xgBS_kDNw

#technology #retro #bigben #elizabethtower #london
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