Temporal Anomalies

"Where did the time go?"  From Assumption College's 1976 yearbook.

A clock with an escapement mechanism which occasionally free-ran, as though lost in thought.  From Jizz: The Story of a New Renaissance Man and the Riddle of Existence by John Hart, 1992.

Hands-free clock faces fly through the air on their way toward installation at Penn State's Old Main bell tower. 

From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.

It's rare to see a 4-year grandfather clock.  This one goes from 1940 to 1943.  From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1941 yearbook.

Temporal anomaly investogator Nick Normal spotted this weirdness at the Paramount Building, Times Square, New York.  Note that although both clocks sport stars for numbers, the clock on the right has an inverted pentagram at the 12:00 position, while the clock on the left does not.  The two clocks therefore should hardly be expected to keep the same time.

Happy hour as marked on the clockface of a beer can.  From Tri-State College's 1980 yearbook.

Temporal anomaly investigator Patrick Rohe discovered that the UF filter on his camera could reveal clock face weirdness.  Note that the ghostly clock faces are rotated, with 12 o'clock at the bottom.  This clock tower is at Towson University, Maryland.

Utterly marvelous: temporal anomaly investigator Eight Cent snapped this photo at noon of a clock at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.  However, checking his camera's EXIF data, he discovered that it precisely matched the incorrect clock.  He then checked the time setting on the camera, which happened to be off by 6 hours and 40 minutes, precisely as the clock tower was off.  This is a perfect and spine-tingling example of how a rift in the fabric of space-time can affect all the chronographs in the vicinity.

The street is named after this clock tower which doesn't tell time in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee.  "As if time lost all sense of itself and forgot to move forward, a man caught in thick fog arguing with himself over what day it is" (Linda Nemec Foster, Talking Diamonds).

This author in 1996 addresses her readers in the 22nd century.  From the rare Children of the Void by Regina Snow, 1996.

It's simultaneous 9:15 and 9:22 on this clock tower in Eastern Kentucky State College's 1959 yearbook.

Temporal anomaly investigator Tadson Bussey offers no speculation as to why there's a ten minute discrepancy at this clock tower in Hudson, Ohio.  But as Grey Wolf has noted, "you’ll be surprised by the variations in Ohio’s timeless countryside."

From the University of Toledo's 1950 yearbook.

Like Christmas, the month of June seems to come earlier every year.  "June in January," from The Improvement Era, 1968.

Not two clocks on poles, but one clock and one mirror.  Temporal anomaly investogator Graham Lees spotted this weirdness in Perth, Australia, at the Subiaco Station.  "When one clock says twenty past three, the mirror says twenty to nine."

Temporal anomaly investigator Nick Normal spotted this time warp in Mott Haven, New York.

"You see, every day is Sunday.  The calendar has stopped."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 2, episode 2.

Temporal anomaly investigator Brian detected this time warp in Solvang, California.

Temporal anomaly investigator Don Harder spotted these disagreeing clocks at the JC Deagan Building, North Centre, Chicago.  It's never one o'clock on the left.