I was running out of time before the kids ran downstairs to see what Santa brought. Then, something strange happened. The clock sitting on our mantle began to chime. I didn’t notice it at first.

José Pino has apparently run into more than a few cheesily-made quartz clocks, or just has had extremely bad luck, as he’s come up with a nifty circuit to get one-second (1hz) pulses from a broken ...

Three Victorian rail station clocks have broken five months after being repaired. The timepieces, above Newcastle Central Station's main entrance, had been showing the wrong time for more than two ...