The Union Square Metronome, also known as "that clock thing," "those weird numbers," or the "smoldering anus," has been confusing people since it went up in 1999 and more so for the past year and a half as it got worse and worse at telling time. But all that should be in the past, as it is finally telling the correct time again, according to Related Companies, which owns the building it rests on. Not that people won't continue to come up with crazy versions of what they think those numbers mean. Like, uh, acres of rainforest destroyed annually?
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Union Square Clock (Yes It Is A Clock) Is Back On Time
Is the Union Square Clock Trying To Tell Us Something?
The crazy steam-spewing Union Square "Metronome" clock is off by 52 minutes! Does anyone even know how to read this thing? One blogger explains just how to decipher it:
The 15 numbers of the digital clock display time going and coming relative to midnight. Read time going left to right and time coming in the opposite direction. So, if the clock reads 180746***135205 it means that it is 6:07 P.M. (18 hours/07 minutes/46 seconds since midnight) and that there are 5 hours/52 minutes/13 seconds remaining until midnight. The three numbers in between are a blur of moving numbers. It is like a digital hourglass.Let that absorb. Now, she notes that the clock "was 52 minutes early yesterday" and wonders where those lost 8 minutes went to. Is it the end of the world as we know it? Someone call John Locke.
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