TELLING TIME

Clocks can be useful tools when you want to know what time it is, how much more time you have, how late you are going to be, when it will be time to leave, when to take your next pill, and so much more.  People treat time very differently.  There are those of us who are 'always on time' and those who just say, 'let them wait'.

How people treat time also tells one a lot about their consideration for others (or lack of it, as it might be), and their respect for utilizing time to the maximum.  After all, we all have a finite time to live and most of us want to make the most of it.

A new clock has been built for Cambridge College in England.  It has no hands.  It takes a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to read it.  To see this in action, click here and watch the short film.  Be patient through the short ad.

binary clock

One of my clocks, more as a 'what-is-it' kind of thing actually  works.  The two columns on the left are for seconds, the two in the middle are for minutes, and the two on the left are hours.  o read time, one must start from the left of the two columns and read upwards.




 





Clocks have always fascinated me and I have lots of them in the house.  One of my favorites, however, comes from the 30s or 40s and is the Westclox Big Ben.  The only sad thing about it is that it had to be wound every 24 hours, otherwise we would still be using it today...well, I do still, anyway.

Time does march on, sometimes at the speed of grass growing; at others faster than Superman.