[time-nuts] The clocks at Windsor Castle, UK

[Will Kimber]

And when those clocks were made there was no thought that in few
centuries time a system that decrees that the time be put forward and
back would be invented. They ran continuously and THAT was the time!

Will

On 06/17/2017 01:05 PM, William H. Fite wrote:
> The clocks at Windsor range from C14 wooden-geared pieces to French
> masterpieces of haute horlogerie with multiple complications including
> perpetual calendars, sidereal time, equation of time, true local solar
> time, date of Easter, various star charts and astronomical data, orreries,
> animated figures and other automata. The more exotic and delicate of these
> are not run continually but are started up periodically to test their
> operation and when the Royals wish to demonstrate them to guests.
>
>
> On Friday, June 16, 2017, jim stephens <jwsmail at jwsss.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 6/16/2017 3:31 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> They have been a novelty item just about as long as people have made
>>> clocks.
>>> Exactly what they do or do not have for adjustment capability would be
>>> very much
>>> a “that depends” kind of thing. There must be some method of getting the
>>> beast
>>> up to sync. It *could* be pretty involved.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>> My father and I were @ a Costco quite some time ago and there was a very
>> nice clock with full Westminster chimes & moon phase. Drove the wife nuts
>> that we stood around fiddling with it to get it set properly and back in
>> phase with the other dials.
>>
>> One of those things that sticks in your gut sometimes if you're a time
>> nut.  My dad was my original time nut.  He found out that he could take
>> pocket watches apart when he was a kid and get them running again (1930s).
>>
>> Fathers Day plug as well.  Miss him a lot
>> thanks
>> Jim
>>
>>> On Jun 16, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> kb8tq at n1k.org said:
>>>>
>>>>> One thing that may be missing is that the clocks involved also keep
>>>>> track of
>>>>> other things (date, lunar phase, sunrise / sunset …). Forcing them to
>>>>> gain
>>>>> or loose a day might mess some of that  up.
>>>>>
>>>> I haven't worked with that sort of clock.  I would expect they would have
>>>> some mechanism to set the clock back without damaging things.  Do they?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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