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You can see digital world clocks in use in many places. Though they aren’t always digital, world clocks can be found helping business and consumers around the globe. What exactly is a world clock? What are some common uses? How can they be used by you, the average person?

What Is It, Anyhow?

Have you ever wondered what time it is in another place in the world? If you live in California, and your sister is in Japan, can you remember how many hours of difference there is in the time – and which way direction the difference is calculated – is she ahead of you? Or behind you in time? You probably want to know before you call her. That’s where a world clock comes in handy.

A world clock, whether digital, analog, or online, is a clock that displays the time all around the world, by stating the time in various cities. It can just show it in the cities that the need requires – like a train station that only tells times in cities that the trains are going to – or it can show times in many cities around the world. Some show the times based on which time zone the city is located in. Some show the time on a world map, others as a list. For some world clocks, like online, you can input the city you are interested in and it will tell you.

Uses In A Business Setting

World clocks, often digital, are found around the world in the business world. Many businesses rely on them for accuracy in their business dealings, like in an import/export type of business that needs to know the time in another area prior to making money transfers, phone calls, data feeds, meetings, etc. Some businesses don’t rely on them for a business purpose, other than to look professional and business-like. They can often be seen in the lobby of executive offices, as a wall clock.

Personal Uses For World Clocks

Many of us have used a world clock at one time or another, for the fun of it, if nothing else. If it is a digital world clock, it can tell in numbers what time it is in another part of the world. Isn’t everyone intrigued by looking at the time in another place….”So, it is 9:00 here on a Thursday night, but it is tomorrow afternoon where she lives? Wow!” It can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around, but seeing the numbers on a digital world clock can help.

Where To Find A World Clock

World clocks are easily accessible. You can buy one in a store, or online. They come as either analog or digital world clock types. Or you can buy software to install a world clock on your computer. You can also access online world clocks that are free, often with just as many “bells and whistles” as one you would purchase. It is worth looking online before parting with your money.

written by Newshound \\ tags: digital world clock, wall clock, world clocks

The oldest alarm clock ever is the sun, but antiques dealers and clock historians keep saying that the sun “doesn’t count”.  Apparently this is because you can’t put the sun under any kind of value guide.  But alarm clocks have existed long before the idea of buying and selling antiques.  Here is a look at just three of these very different antique alarm clocks.

The Great Exhibition Of 1851

Charles Darwin, best known for his theory of evolution, was also a keen observer of his times.  In 1851, he took his children to Hyde Park to the Crystal Palace, also known as The Great Exhibition.  All kinds of new and unusual devices were on display, one of which (had it survived) would be known as the most dangerous antique alarm clock in the world today.

In this antique alarm clock, the sleeper’s was made on springs and levers.  When it came time for the sleeper to come out of the Land of Nod, the bed would shoot up, propelling the sleeper into a tub of cold water.  Unbelievably, this kind of antique alarm clock never caught on.  In fact, it’s usually not listed in historical papers on the Great Exhibition.  This antique alarm clock is, however, lovingly detailed in Charles Darwin’s personal diaries.

The Nuremberg Wall Clock

A much more conventional and dry antique wall clock is thought to have been made in the 1400’s in Nuremberg, Germany.  It was made of iron and had bronze bells and worked as a smaller version of the huge town clocks all around European cities since the 1100’s.  It was a mere nineteen inches tall.  Its existence is doubtful, especially after the World Wars Germany went through.  We know of this antique wall clock through old writings.

Salisbury Cathedral

The oldest known antique alarm clock still ticking away today can be seen in Salisbury Cathedral in England near Stonehenge, once thought to be a kind of antique alarm clock but now thought to be a place of ancestor worship.  Known as “the Medieval Clock”, this antique alarm clock was thought to be made around 1386. 

Alarm clocks were rather large in the fourteenth century – usually only a clock tower or a cathedral could hold one. he big advantage was that the whole town could use one.  Also, you didn’t have to worry about antique alarm clock thieves.  Or, worry about sober thieves, anyway.  If anyone tried to steal this antique alarm clock, they wouldn’t be able to get very far without someone pretending not to notice.

 

written by Newshound \\ tags: antique alarm clock, wall clock