Temporal Anomalies

Some of the very best things happen at this time.  Top photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator Jessie Essex, bottom courtesy of TheKarenD.

It's simultaneously 10:30 and 2:45 in Gullbringusysla, Iceland.  This temporal anomaly was documented by Anthony Stanley, who blamed windy conditions.  Though we weren't on location to verify a meteorological cause for the timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

It's simultaneously 6:15 and 8:40 at this clock tower in Santa Ana, documented by Richard Habeck at 6:56.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

We experienced a temporal anomaly after spending the night at the haunted clock tower in Solvang.

Arman's "L’Heure de Tous" sculpture at the Saint Lazare train station has created temporal anomalies not only in Paris but all across Europe and even parts of Turkey.  Though we are proponents of art in general, we must formally denounce this particular sculpture for its recklessness with the fabric of spacetime.  Photos by Juanedc and Vincent Aguerre.  

The clock at the library in downtown Salem, Virginia evinces a temporal anomaly.  It stands between the big library building and a Little Free Library installation along the sidewalk.  You'll have noted the macrocosm/microcosm at play, as we did.  There is a vacuum between macrocosm and microcosm, "a void of apparent godlessness" (Franklyn Wepner).  You'll recall Isaac Newton and René Descartes' watchmaker analogy that argued for the existence of an intelligent designer of a mechanical universe.  In a void of such a watchmaker ... well, QED.

It is simultaneously midnight and 2:10 at this clock tower in Lima, Ohio, documented by Tom Ramsey at 10:58.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

Every clock in Boca Raton, Florida, reflects a temporal anomaly.  We found nine clock faces in the city, no single one of which showed the correct time.  Four clocks on one tower agreed with each other, though they were all fifteen minutes off.  The other clocks we spotted were in disagreement with one another as well as being incorrect.  "To learn what’s going on in Boca Raton takes time" (Jason Pelish, Boca Raton News), and therein lies the irony.

It's simultaneously 5:35 and 10:50 in this temporal anomaly in Daytona Beach, Florida, documented by Paulbr75.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of this timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

Times takes a shellacking.  From Barnard's 1955 yearbook.

Photographed at 4:22, the clock faces display 6:16 and 8:15.  Brian Rawson-Ketchum noticed and documented this temporal anomaly in Battle Creek, Michigan.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

Can this clock face be accurate?  Yes!  There's literary proof: "September Midnight" (Sara Teasdale, Poetry magazine, 1914) as well as September 12th (2002).  A novel entitled One October (Steve Stratton, 2011).  A book of Haiku entitled November 2.  And so on: December Third, January 4th, February 5th ... you get the idea with that.

From The Film Daily, 1946.

At 7:35, the "Geneva" clock is two hours early and the others are five hours early.  (By the way, in the city of Geneva itself, the time would have been 1:35.)  This temporal anomaly in Manhatten was documented by Jag9889.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of this timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.