User:Wordfa/ClockWiki

Clock Wiki

Forword:

I recently discovered the talk section of Wiki and Its fun. They are there to discuss changes to the main article. People are so angry and opinionated.

I am copying some of the best bit here because i may make a book/zine out of it?

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Clock

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Ticking

Mention some clocks make ticking.

Jidanni (talk) 13:09, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Timepiece

In modern informal use, watches are timepieces. Pocket watches are timepieces. Desk clocks might be a timepiece. Cell phones are never a timepiece and they don't include a timepiece, even if they have a clock. Grandfather clocks are never a timepiece, even if you call the display mechanism its timepiece like the 19th century source did. You guys all already know this.

LlywelynII 09:43, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

What about potato clocks?

Shouldn't there be a potato clock article? I mean, there are links to articles about various obscure forms of clocks. There doesn't seem to be an article on potato clocks! You know, those science-fair things that are basically clocks powered by potatoes? How does that work? I really think there should be a potato clock article (or a section on potato clocks in this existing one).

71.252.20.231 (talk) 20:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC).

That's just an electric clock powered by a potato battery. Just a gimmick, there's nothing notable going on there.

Paul Koning 13:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

counterclockwise clock(s)

Except for novelty items all clocks turn in the same direction these days. It wasn't always so; the Jewish clock in Prague is the best known example but there must surely be more (I cannot however find the German church one I distinctly remember seeing once).

Unknown

Yes, I saw a counter-clockwise clock inside a famous church in Italy. (I'll probably remember the city and the church at the most inconvenient time to run back and edit Wikipedia). Also, ordinary sundials, when they happen to be in New Zealand, have a shadow that goes counter-clockwise around the gnomon. It has something to do with being south of the Tropic of Capricorn.

DavidCary 06:30, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Digital clock (formerly: I don't care what it's technically called)

I want to go to the article about digital clocks. I don't care what they are technically called. I can't find it. The purpose of Wikipedia is to provide facts, in a way that is accessible to anyone. Digital clock redirects here (to clock). Could someone please just figure out what they're called and make "digital clock" redirect to that article? Sorry for sounding harsh, but when you have to be an expert on something just to learn about it, it doesn't work.

Twilight Realm 03:02, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

This article addresses both analog and digital clocks. It could probably use some more distinction, and it definitely could use some pics of digital clocks, but until there is a lot more detail about each, there's not much point in creating a separate digital clock article. I'll put this on my to-do list, tho. Tysto 04:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC)I think there's enough difference for either a separate article or at least a single section devoted to digital clocks. This is progress, though, which I appreciate. But what I was looking for when I first came to this article was some information on how it works. I wanted to use digital clocks as an example in an essay on electronic components. Unfortunately, Wikipedia failed me, which is quite unusual. But there's definitely a big difference in the way it works. At the bottom of the article is a very long list of different types of clocks. But even though there are many different, unique types, all of them (or almost all; I didn't check them all) are similar in that they are all mechanical. Though it acheives the same function, mechanical timekeeping is very different from electronic timekeeping. I know there's a lot of variety in methods of mechanical clocks: springs, pendulums, etc. Quartz clocks can actually be either analog or digital. But mostly they're very different, and deserve to be treated that way. You may earn the same amount of money if you are a sports player, a celebrity, or the inventor of something revolutionary. But they aren't all grouped in a single article ("Rich People"), even if their income is the same. The method of earning it is completely different.

Twilight Realm 01:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Article about clock, but picture of watch?

I think that it's interesting that an article about clocks starts with a top picture of a "watch".

Joe 15:49, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Okay, hearing no objection, I put the picture of a clock in the article about a clock and I put the picture of a watch in the article about a watch. Let me know what you think.

Joe 02:02, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

cleanup?

I removed "Al Gore is a bozo the clown fanboy" from the segment on water clocks if that's ok with everybody.

Melaen 12 March 2007

Clocks don't serve to measure years, months and so on?

The article states the following: "A clock [...] is an instrument for measuring time and for measuring time intervals of less than a day as opposed to a calendar". Then computers' clocks don't measure months? Computers have electronic calendars as part of their hardware? And, by the way, are calendars really used to measure time? Aren't they used more to know what day of the week a certain day is?

MJGR 12:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

"Big Ben" caption

The caption for the picture of the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster - the tower is only colloquially (and incorrectly) referred to as Big Ben, which is actually the name of the clock's biggest bell.

Jberanek 15:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Clocks and Watches

We have a challenging question, does clocks and watches go tic before tock or tock before tic? Example: (tic tock, tic tock or tock tic, tock tic).

Storesonline 00:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Moerou toukon

Moerou toukon has been permanently blocked as a sockpuppet of the Indian nationalist editor Freedom skies, who has a history of

• POV-pushing[19][20][21]
• citing unreliable sources[22]
• misrepresenting his sources[23][24]

The Arbitration Committee has found that Freedom skies has "repeatedly engaged in edit-warring" and placed him on revert parole. When examining Freedom skies' editing, be mindful of the following:

• Can whatever source Freedom skies cites be considered reliable and up to date?
• Do his edits accurately reflect the content of the sources cited?
• Do his edits reflect "the prevailing view in the relevant academic community"?
• If not, do his edits give minority views undue weight?

JFD 06:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

time in Europe

It should be noted that the way to tell the time is different in different regions; 17:30 would be half past five in English but 'half zes' (half TO the next hour) in Dutch (the Germans use the same method). This is a well known source of missed appointments >;^)

Another thing; only last century there were three distinct times being used on the European continent;

 - Greenwich mean time in Belgium (and the UK)
 - European time (Germany and elsewhere), one hour offset from GMT
 - Dutch (Amsterdam) time, 40 minutes off GMT and 20 minutes off European time

The Amsterdam time disappeared in WW II after the German occupation. Before the Amsterdam time became the standard there were local times (which made railway timetables really hard to figure out).

Are you kidding me?

"Originally invented by Sam Lalruatpuia, the clock is one of the oldest human inventions..."

Who the hell is Sam Lalruatpuia??? In all the world wide web the only instance of Sam Lalruatpuia is here in Wiki on the entry for "clock".

Q: What does this mean: "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable."

A: Nothing

Pretty well shows Wiki for what it is, a dumping ground for any and every one.

ResIpsaWiki (talk • contribs) 19:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

That was just vandalism from an anonymous user. Surprising that one of the bots didn't catch it, but it was only up for about 25 mintes before you deleted it. Don't know what your second qa is supposed to mean. This page is vandalised frequently, because even stupid people have heard of a 'clock'.

Cormullion (talk) 17:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Keeping time

If time is considered to be "what a clock reads", it is tautologous to say that a clock keeps time. I suggest that the word "keep" be deleted.

DOwenWilliams (talk) 16:13, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

That is ridiculous. In the first place, even granting your definition, time is not what any one clock reads. Every clock has error. It is the task of a clock to "keep" as close to the scientifically defined ideal of perfect timekeeping as possible. More importantly, "timekeeping" is a common description of what a clock does, and perfectly appropriate for the introduction. That's why our article History of timekeeping devices includes clocks.

Chetvorno 17:14, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Problematic edits June 2022

This series of edits by IP user 117.215.186.232 in June 2022 seems to have been intended to remove references to the development of timekeeping instruments in the Islamic world. I don't know enough about the subject to make sense of the changes, but I'm surprised that those major changes seem to have gone unchallenged. Could someone look over the changes and revert or modify as appropriate? Thanks.

Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 09:01, 4 July 2022 (UTC)