Pendulum GrandFather Clock
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Grand Father Clock UTC
The MatsClock 1370 is a very uniqu GrandFather Clock which shows UTC.
UTC Stands for Universal Time Constant. UTC was required because people
wanted to synchronize their clocks and watches to one time. But if
everyone was to set the same time then midnight would be 12 am in some
countries, noon in some countries and breakfast time in some other
countries depending on where on earth they are. So humans got together
and said that the UTC or Universal Time Constant would be set on the
Greenwich Meridian and everyone will offset their clocks by one hour
every 15 degrees longitude they are off the greenwich meridian.
Depending on which country they are living in and how many longitudes
their country covers, the country will set one of their middle longitude
passing through their country preferably through the center of the
country as their standard longitude and the time there will be followed
by every one in that country. Some countries like russia are so large
that they required more than one standard time.
Setting UTC On GrandFather Clocks
I am sure you would have never seen a grandfather clock displaying UTC.
But the grandfather clock is like a large box with a glass lid. All you
need to do is open the box lid and rotate the minutes needles through
360 deg to get one hour change on the hour needle because both the
needles are connected through mechanical gears. But if you try to rotate
the hours needle then the minutes needle will not rotate. Instead the
hours needle may break. And there was no seconds needle. You had to look
at the pendulum swinging left and right once every second.
