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In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It
keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed |
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:04:57 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed I fear it gets worse. As one ages, time speeds up. Be warned! |
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:04:57 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. Maybe that *one* is connected to a master clock. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. In high school, almost forty years ago. Shortly after, the interconnection must have been disabled. Blast! Another age thread. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko |
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On 01/11/2012 20:04, Ed Cryer wrote:
In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed Well, we got a radio controlled alarm here. It should be synced by a Frankfurt radio time transmittor. Really state of the art. I would call it state of a fart. Many times it shows a different time. Always a surpise when you look for the time. It varies from minus to plus a few hours. So your clock (radio controlled as well) ain't too bad. Fokke |
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Take a close look at the face, and see who manufactured it, then Google.
On 11/1/2012 2:04 PM, Ed Cryer wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed |
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Bob I wrote:
Take a close look at the face, and see who manufactured it, then Google. On 11/1/2012 2:04 PM, Ed Cryer wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed I thought of that. But I'd need a ladder at least ten feet high. It's almost at the top of the wall. I have a little radio-controlled clock here at home. It's an Acctim mk 16 9QJ. I've had it about 5 years, and it works fine. But it's a digital display, and I've never seen it do that going into overdrive thing. Ed |
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Fokke Nauta wrote:
On 01/11/2012 20:04, Ed Cryer wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed Well, we got a radio controlled alarm here. It should be synced by a Frankfurt radio time transmittor. Really state of the art. I would call it state of a fart. Many times it shows a different time. Always a surpise when you look for the time. It varies from minus to plus a few hours. So your clock (radio controlled as well) ain't too bad. Fokke In North America, there is WWV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station) There is also GPS, but that's at a higher frequency, and may be harder to receive inside a building. Whatever radio source is uses, the format of signal would have to be simple enough, for a cheap synchronization design. With processors being as cheap as they are now, that wouldn't present a problem today. But might have been an issue when that particular clock was built. This device claims to set itself via radio signal. http://www.amazon.com/Sangean-Americ.../dp/B0010HUAIO "Radio Controlled clock available for DCF/WWVB/MSF/JJY" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSF_time_signal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJY Interesting collection of frequencies. The low frequencies are in the same range as the ones submarines use. Whereas the WWV thing is shortwave. Paul |
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Ed Cryer wrote:
Bob I wrote: Take a close look at the face, and see who manufactured it, then Google. On 11/1/2012 2:04 PM, Ed Cryer wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed I thought of that. But I'd need a ladder at least ten feet high. It's almost at the top of the wall. I have a little radio-controlled clock here at home. It's an Acctim mk 16 9QJ. I've had it about 5 years, and it works fine. But it's a digital display, and I've never seen it do that going into overdrive thing. Ed This is my clock; http://tinyurl.com/axwumd2 Ed |
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:04:57 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:
In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed Some guesswork he-) Our radio clock has a problem in the autumn when we drop an hour going back to GMT from BST - it doesn't know how to go backwards! I guess it should sweep forwards by 11 hours but it never does. I have to manually reset it to 12.00 at sometime just after midday and then wait for it to reset itself to the correct time. If your swimming pool clock has a tendency to gain during the course of a day, and it is more intelligent than my clock, then perhaps it sweeps round by just less than 12 hours to put itself right. An unlikely explanation I must admit:-) -- John |
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:04:57 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:
In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed The only idea I have is that the clock is the only correct clock in the world (by accident - there shouldn't be any visible to us at all), and *they* are moving time along in very strange ways for *their* nefarious purposes. Now that you've let the cat out of the bag, *they* will surely fix that clock so as not to let us know the *truth* about how *they* are controlling us. You should have gotten a clue from the fact that the other swimmers couldn't see it. So, be careful. *Very* careful. OK, I had fun with that fantasy. Thanks for the chance to exercise my surrealistic world view :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:01:31 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:04:57 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed The only idea I have is that the clock is the only correct clock in the world (by accident - there shouldn't be any visible to us at all), and *they* are moving time along in very strange ways for *their* nefarious purposes. Now that you've let the cat out of the bag, *they* will surely fix that clock so as not to let us know the *truth* about how *they* are controlling us. You should have gotten a clue from the fact that the other swimmers couldn't see it. So, be careful. *Very* careful. OK, I had fun with that fantasy. Thanks for the chance to exercise my surrealistic world view :-) BTW, John Aldred's post, sent while I was writing the above, sounds to me like a very reasonable suggestion. I have a Casio wrist watch with an analog dial and a digital readout as well. It reads WWVB (the 60KHz signal), but the hands can get out of sync with the time. The hands only go forward, but the only way to set them is manually. If it's fast, you have to fast forward it by holding a button down while it advances a bit under 12 hours. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On 11/1/2012 12:04 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed Possible atomic clock of some kind? |
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On 11/1/2012 6:54 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote: Bob I wrote: Take a close look at the face, and see who manufactured it, then Google. On 11/1/2012 2:04 PM, Ed Cryer wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed I thought of that. But I'd need a ladder at least ten feet high. It's almost at the top of the wall. I have a little radio-controlled clock here at home. It's an Acctim mk 16 9QJ. I've had it about 5 years, and it works fine. But it's a digital display, and I've never seen it do that going into overdrive thing. Ed This is my clock; http://tinyurl.com/axwumd2 Ed The clock must be running a bit fast, as well as only running in one direction. At the 4:00 setting time, it must go around to stop at the "correct" time, however it determines it. Back in the late 50's my grade school had these, at least until they wore out and were replaced one by one. The clocks had a solenoid and some sort of spring, and ticked over about 5 seconds at a time. The school was built in the 30s, and the clocks were installed then. The major time change on them was at noon, and I assume midnight. They also updated (as I remember) hourly, and by just a minute or so. These days, the power companies don't necessarily do what they used to do to keep synchronous motor driven clocks on or close to the correct time. |
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:51:02 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote: Bob I wrote: Take a close look at the face, and see who manufactured it, then Google. On 11/1/2012 2:04 PM, Ed Cryer wrote: In our local sports centre swimming pool there's a clock on the wall. It keeps good time. I've relied on it for years to time myself. However, every day at 4-00pm exactly it goes into overdrive, and sweeps round covering many hours in a few seconds. Then it resets at just after 4-00pm, and continues normally. I've pointed it out to many fellow swimmers; and they stare in amazement, raised eyebrows and a dim expression over the facial features and say they don't know. The other day I finally gave in and asked at Reception what it was all about. She told me that that was the only clock in the Centre that did that, that they weren't interconnected and that she didn't know why. My best guess is that it's a radio clock, and it self-adjust every day at 4-00pm. But I've googled for "clock speeds up at 4-00pm" and the like and haven't found the answer. Some one here must have met one of these things. If so then let me know more. Ed I thought of that. But I'd need a ladder at least ten feet high. It's almost at the top of the wall. What about taking a camera down there and using a significant amount of zoom? I do that when I need to examine the roof of my house when I need a close-up view and don't want to drag out a ladder. OTOH, sometimes cameras are frowned upon in swimming areas, or maybe this last part just applies to me. -- Char Jackson |
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charlie wrote:
These days, the power companies don't necessarily do what they used to do to keep synchronous motor driven clocks on or close to the correct time. Sure they do. They count cycles, and can keep track of drift. The question would be, how many opportunities would they have to correct things ? Generator frequency is not an independent variable to be tweaked willy-nilly. The generator frequency and phase, are also used to control the power fed from the generator, into the grid. So correcting the cycle count, could be a relatively complicated issue. I'm guessing, a correction factor would have to be communicated to every generating station, for a correction to be made. No single person fiddling the controls on his/her generator, could fix it on their own. It means, the clock may be adjusted over the long term, to have the right cycle count per day, but at any instant in time, could be off by a bit, or quite a bit. And judging by this article, the operators obviously don't give a rats ass about the clock on my electric stove (traditional electro-mechanical). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43532031...ectric-clocks/ If you have enough power failures in your area, that gives plenty of opportunities for you to manually correct any time keeping errors :-) Paul |
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