Some of the most amazing things happen around 9:73 in the morning.  Many of us call it "the better part of the day."  Photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator Dipurinku.

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

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.

A pocket watch that chimed the bells of a fairy city.  From What Time Is It? by M. Ilin and illustrated by N. Lapshin, 1932.

"Human hands on clock tell the exact time."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.

You know that they ring in the new year at Times Square, but back in 1921, it was really something.  From Popular Science Monthly.

Thirteen o'clock.  From Popular Science Monthly, 1920.

From Wiener Revue, 1945. 

"Heartbeats of clock heard with stethoscope."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.  And we can picture the clock -- one with human hands, as depicted here.

"A clock of intoxication."  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

"The illusion of time is an agreed-upon factor" (Nancy Kautz, Pilgrimage Toward Freedom).  Our illustration is from The British Workman and Friend of the Sons of Toil, 1855.

An illustration from The Century of Louis XIV by Emile Bourgeois (1896).