"To his extreme horror finds every watch, every clock, and every chronometer pointing out a different hour; so that all the information he can get is, that the time is something between 12 o'clock to-day and 12 o-clock to-morrow."  From The Man in the Moon, Volume V.

A visual pun, "knight time"?  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.

What charms us about this particular anomaly in Vancouver, British Columbia is that is was documented at a Victorian "afternoon tea house."  Apparently, visitors become automatic time travelers, with afternoon turning into 7:30 and 8:42 simultaneously.  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.

"Clocks that are never right give world correct time."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.

Here is revealed how magicians make time for practice.  From Die Bühne, 1925.