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No, you’re not running late, Brisbane’s City Hall clock above King George Square is ahead of time today. The clock, which is due to sound at 15-minute intervals, chimed two minutes early this morning, at 8.42am.The time displayed on the clock face is correct, but the bells, well, they’re a little off. This is not an uncommon occurrence.
As our reporter Felicity Caldwell wrote earlier this year, the clock was built in the late 1920s and was described in a brochure as the “most modern and complete electrical time-keeping system in Australia at the present time. The whole system is automatic.”The clock face is the largest in Australia, and when it was unveiled, many people did not wear watches, let alone have phones in their pockets that told them the time to the second.
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