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West Roxbury's great divide
By adamg on Sat, 10/12/2019 - 6:45pm
Centre Street in West Roxbury has long had two digital clocks on either side of Centre Street - and they have almost never told the same time. Currently, people on the south side of the street are taking life easy, what with the slow time indicated on the Rockland Trust clock, while people on the north side of the street clearly are living a faster-paced, no doubt more stressful life, based on the fast time on the Hennigan Insurance clock.
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The temperature never matches
The temperature never matches either!
That's the wind.
That's the wind.
Hennigan solved that one
They stopped flashing the temperature on their side of the street.
time.gov
time.gov
When you take the speed of
When you take the speed of light into account, they are actually in sync.
Perhaps Rockland Bank and Hennigan Insurance
bought their clocks from the same company that furnished the clocks that grace the North Station commuter rail platforms.
Jetsons will fix it
In the 21st century we might have computers that can help us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_server
Cool! Does the 21st century
Cool! Does the 21st century also provide free procurement and installation of the equipment to connect these dumb clocks to the internet, plus ongoing support, since by being online these things would be part of the Internet of Things and would probably be used as part of a botnet before too long?
Um, yeah, actually
They are usually connected to computers inside the bank.
They're both wrong:
It's 5:03.
EDT vs WDT
Obviously one is set to Eastern Daylight Time and the other to Westie Daylight Time.
I wonder if they'll get closer when we switch in a few weeks (and, like clockwork, have a cascade of people bitching about the time change).
A neighborhood with one clock knows what time it is
A neighborhood with two clocks is never sure.