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 <jwsm...@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 <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> kb...@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? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> These are my opinions. I hate spam. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m >>>> ailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m >>> ailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m >> ailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
