THAT was the time is the best comment >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: "Will Kimber" <zl1tao@gmx.com> >Data: 17/06/2017 4.22 >A: <time-nuts@febo.com> >Ogg: Re: [time-nuts] The clocks at Windsor Castle, UK > >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. >>