OT: Danger! Time warp!

As you were, in the summer. Unless you're in Australia but they probably consider winter to be summer. Celebrating New Years Eve in flip flops and a wife beater just ain't right.

If you can read it without turning a light on it's probably 14.

I have seen wall clocks like that in underground installations where the sun never shines.

I had one like that, perhaps without 10 timers. The barometer/altimeter was relatively useless if you didn't know one value or the other.

Norway had one of the more creative approaches to the refugee problem; they housed them in an old ski resort above the Arctic circle. A month or so of that and the refugees might try to swim back to Syria.

The UK housed a load in Middlesbrough* and the buggers still stayed, an old ski resort would seem quite palatial in comparison.

G.Harman

Reminds me: I have here a 240V synchronus motor, double-ended shaft, that rotates, IIRC, every 24 h - or it might be once a week. A bit bulky for a watch but could make an interesting, one-handed clock. Free to a good home.

I heard similar ~25 MPH but it was before ford it was when Stephenson's Rocket was built and that man couldn't breathe if moving at 30 MPH. Which was about the highest speed of a galloping horse.

If you're clever enough to decide if it's 2:00 or 14:00 you're clever enough to add 12 to the hour.

I used to collect motors, dunno where they all came from. Thought they'd come in handy, but in 20 years I never made anything requiring one. Gave the whole lot (50 or 60 of them) away to a nutter who was trying to make his own motorised bicycle and trailer.

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I like the French idea of shoving them on a campsite with no supplies.

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Barometers are as rubbish as a TV weather forecast. We don't know how to predict the weather, and probably never will. Your best chance is to look out the window in the morning.

The altimeter is fun on a fell race (race up a mountain). You can tell people they only have 2000 feet to go.

The timers are designed to be used by someone monitoring the speed of several runners in a race. I'd just get mixed up.

It makes me laugh when Aussies say they're cold.

Quicker to glance at analogue.

I guess they have good lighting.

A campsite in Poland would be good but the Poles wised up after the last time the country was used as a dumping ground.

Or 20' if the barometric pressure changed since you calibrated the altimeter.

I get a chuckle from the Australian Alps. They look like they would be a nice, if not too taxing, walk. Beats Kansas, I suppose.

And a lot of alcohol...

I remember the weather device a relative had, a piece of brown rope hanging outside, with instructions like:

If it's wet it's raining. If it's stiff it's freezing. If it's white it's snowing.