Common sense required.................

[Bob Wright]

Just before i retired in 2006, my company gave me a beautiful grandfather clock, cherry cabinet, chimes and moon phases, and telling the time as well.

I was explaining the chimes; once for quarter past the hour, twice for half past, three strikes for quarter 'til the hour, and striking the number of hours.

"How do you know whether its one o'clock or quarter past the hour?" I was asked.

"Before striking the hour, the clock chimes a brief tune," I explained.

Then: "How do you know whether its A.M. or P.M.?"

"We look out the window for that. Dark, its A.M. Light its P.M."


Bob Wright

 

[Pat-inCO]

Do you bill the company on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis?
You MUST charge them something to listen to that much noise. :wink:

I got an el-cheap-o "analogue" clock for the living room when I got to AZ.
Ding-dang thing would click for each second. Threw it out in a week. Got
another one very much like the first, that cost five times as much and it is
very nice. NO sounds, at all. 8)

 

[gasbag]

I bought a very nice Sligh grandfather clock for my wife about 25 years ago.
She loves it. It's followed us through three moves and now has it's
place of honor in our entry hall.
The ticking and chimes announcing the time are very relaxing for us
plus it is a beautiful piece of furniture.
Best thing I ever bought for her.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

We have a nice wall-mount pendulum clock that goes "tick-tock" quietly and chimes all the hour progressions and hours. We are so accustomed to it we no longer hear it unless it does something unusual.

 

[caryc]

We have a nice wall-mount pendulum clock that goes "tick-tock" quietly and chimes all the hour progressions and hours. We are so accustomed to it we no longer hear it unless it does something unusual.

What unusual thing might it do? :lol:

 

[Kevin]

We have a clock on our oven. When the power goes out, I have to reset it. (Not very often). But you set the time, then it wants to know AM or PM.

Our Grandmother clock on the other hand is only right twice a day. I’ve always wanted a grandfather clock. They are beautiful pieces of furniture.

 

[Fox Mike]

We have a nice wall-mount pendulum clock that goes "tick-tock" quietly and chimes all the hour progressions and hours. We are so accustomed to it we no longer hear it unless it does something unusual.

What unusual thing might it do? :lol:

I have a wall mount Regulator pendulum. If it stops chiming on the 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, or hour that is unusual. I just replace the movement in mine, a couple weeks ago, because it stopped chiming. As was said you get used to hearing it and when it stopped it was unusual.

 

[caryc]

I have a micro wave oven that is the easiest thing I've ever seen to set the clock on. If the power ever goes out, just four quick presses of the buttons and the clock is set. I can do it in two seconds. It doesn't care about AM or PM.

A funny story about that microwave. You can use it as a timer if you press the "timer" button then enter the amount of time you want. Well, I was cooking something on the stove and wanted to set a timer on the microwave. I forgot to press the "timer" button first so when I punched in the time, the oven actually came on. There was a little to much noise at the time and I didn't notice that. So running the oven with nothing in it caused the thing to go dead. I thought I had burned it out. No reset button or anything so I figured I would need a new oven.

I went about putting on some decent clothes to go to town and just before leaving, I decided that I should unplug that oven. So when I bent down to reach the plug behind the cabinet, I heard a "BEEP". The oven had miraculously come back to life.

If I hadn't decided to unplug that oven I would have walked out the door and gone to town and bought a new one only to come back with it and discover the old one working again. :mrgreen:

 

[Dave P.]

Then: "How do you know whether its A.M. or P.M.?"

"We look out the window for that. Dark, its A.M. Light its P.M."


Bob Wright

It's the internet, there has to be someone.....

What if you're dumb enough to be living in Alaska in January?

Dave, who's technology has allowed some spare time....

 

[coach]

I believe running a microwave without anything in it will cause them to overheat. The last two I’ve had will overheat and shut down if I bake anything for more than about 8 minutes. It goes dead and will come back on within about 15 minutes after it cools down.
As I kid I used to watch my grandmother’s grandfather clock to see the minute hand move. At the right moment you could see it barely click ahead one minute. I think the whole mechanism with weights, pendulum, sound, moon phases,etc., fascinated me. Fun times pre-internet.

 

[RoninPA]

While in the USAF and TDY to Germany, I got a very nice Black Forest Cuckoo Clock. Love that clock. For people not used to it, it bothers some of them and they ask how we deal with the "noise". Told them that after a while it is background noise but you get attuned to it and when you hear it, it just seems to act on your subconscious and you know what time it is. And to this day, once you get the pendulum set correctly it keeps very good time.

As for the light and dark, we we stationed in Iceland for 2 years. In the summer you had to have black out curtains in the kids room or they would never go to bed. In the winter I would go to work in the dark, come home for lunch and the sun was just coming up and when I left work at 4:30-5:00 the sun was setting. But in the summer you could play golf until midnight (yes they do have golf courses in Iceland)

 

[GunnyGene]

A lot of millennials don't understand big hand, little hand, let alone chimes. :roll: Introduce them to ships bells and watch their eyes roll back in their heads. :lol:

https://www.navy.mil/navydata/questions/bells.html

 

[Dan in MI]

My Dad decided he wanted to repair clocks when I was a kid. Now maybe he got a broken one and that started it, I don't know, but by the time I was a teenager we had 7 or 8 in the living room. It quickly becomes white noise, EXCEPT when they a;; stop and it gets quiet.

As us kids moved out of the house we each got to pick a clock. Mine is still running fine since ~1970 and I am way behind at getting it cleaned and oiled. Actually I believe they all still work, but I can only verify one brother still uses his (2).

 

[eveled]

My wife bought me Chelsea ships clock for a wedding present. It counts off 4 hour watches or shifts. You can only tell what time it is if you know what time the watch started.

 

[GunnyGene]

My wife bought me Chelsea ships clock for a wedding present. It counts off 4 hour watches or shifts. You can only tell what time it is if you know what time the watch started.

Does anybody really know what time it is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uy0ldI_1HA

 

[Goldstar225]

My wife wanted and got a cuckoo clock. After one week I was ready for bird season to open.....

 

[caryc]

My wife bought me Chelsea ships clock for a wedding present. It counts off 4 hour watches or shifts. You can only tell what time it is if you know what time the watch started.

Any watch will start at either 4,8 or 12. It's not too hard to know if it's 12PM or 12AM.

 

[Colonel Daddy]

I "sort of" inherited a clock from a deceased cousin. Actually, it went to an uncle but when he saw how bad it was he tossed it on the trash pile. Daddy pulled rank and said oh no you don't! Bobby wants that clock. I got it and studied it a couple weeks. Took out the mechanism and tried to figure out how to clean it. WD40 was NOT the answer and decided on Gunk Carburetor Spray. Did a great job. Sewing machine oil keeps it lubricated. Ordered a new pendulum rod and gradually trimmed it to correct length by trial and error. Got most of the sag out of the door and found keys in an antique shop. Only has 2 weights and counts the hours. To me a beautiful "gong" sound, produced by a large coil gong. My wife can't stand the gong so that part stays turned off. Was made in the late 1800's.

 

[exavid]

We have a Cuckoo clock in the front room. Got it shortly after we got married so it's been running just a few months short of fifty years. I've had to lube and clean it's innards a couple of times but it's still ticking away. I don't notice the bird or the gong much unless I think about it.

 

[gramps]

Then: "How do you know whether its A.M. or P.M.?"

"We look out the window for that. Dark, its A.M. Light its P.M."


Bob Wright

It's the internet, there has to be someone.....

What if you're dumb enough to be living in Alaska in January?

Dave, who's technology has allowed some spare time....

Dave, I worked in Barrow, Alaska in January. Believe me the pay was good, and I was used to working night shifts. I also worked in Kotzebue during the Summer! That is where I needed blackout curtains!
gramps

 

[exavid]

Then: "How do you know whether its A.M. or P.M.?"

"We look out the window for that. Dark, its A.M. Light its P.M."


Bob Wright

It's the internet, there has to be someone.....

What if you're dumb enough to be living in Alaska in January?

Dave, who's technology has allowed some spare time....

Dave, I worked in Barrow, Alaska in January. Believe me the pay was good, and I was used to working night shifts. I also worked in Kotzebue during the Summer! That is where I needed blackout curtains!
gramps

Be careful talking about Kotzebue. I spent quite a few years living there. Met a young schoolteacher who came up there from Texas. She's still living with me almost fifty years later. Lots of good memories there. Been to Barrow quite a few times as well.

 

[vito]

To add to the decor of my living room, I wanted a clock. Then I realized, why add a clock when there was one right there on the front of the cable box/DVR? Who could ask for more? Its always the right time, changes by itself for Daylight Savings Time, comes back with the right time after a power outage, and being digital, even my millenial grandchildren can tell what the time is! (I did once have one of my grandkids ask me what I meant when I said it was "half past the hour").

 

[mohavesam]

I was told a very long time ago, by a very wise man..."A man with two clocks will never know what time it i

 

[caryc]

I was told a very long time ago, by a very wise man..."A man with two clocks will never know what time it i

What if he has two atomic sequenced clocks?

 

[exavid]

We only have a couple clocks in the house that need to be set. Everything else set themselves.

 

[Rook]

I have my great grandparent's old clock that they bought in 1910 on our mantle in the living room. It's a Junghans that was made in Germany.