Since the 1930s, the Sun Clock and Thermometer at 280 Broadway in Lower Manhattan have reported the time and temperature, albeit not always correctly. However, thanks to a recently completed ...

“It seemed the right time on the page ... it suited my eye.” That’s how Martyl Langsorf responded when asked why the hands of the Doomsday Clock were placed at seven minutes to midnight back in 1947.

About Time: A History of Civilisation in Twelve Clocks. By David Rooney. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $28.95. Viking; £16.99 IN 2015 KIM JONG UN, North Korea’s supreme leader, decreed that every clock in ...

Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Waterford, Ireland “How often do you get the chance ...

On August 15, 2015, seventy years after Korea overcame Japanese occupation, Pyongyang took back half an hour plundered by the invaders. By order of the Supreme People’s Assembly, Pyongyang Time was ...

‘Irish writers, poets, playwrights, artists are rightly celebrated, but no one knows about the clockmakers,’ one donor said. By Sandra Jordan WATERFORD, Ireland — Ireland’s long history of horology ...

Unveiling the jewelers' clock -- Time's tongue and hands: the first public clocks in the United States -- Clockwatching: the uneasy authority of clocks and watches in antebellum America -- Republican ...