Sunday, September 2, 2018

Roman Clocks

The majority of Split was built by the Romans, so there are many traditional Roman features including the clocks.  View out our hotel window below shows the main clock tower at the other side and as you zoom in, you can see it is a 24 hour clock with Roman numerals.  We were told on our tour it does not adjust for daylight savings time (duh), but otherwise keeps perfect time.  We are still confused by the long second hand though.  This picture was shot at 7 am on the dot...see here the shorter hour hand clearly shows 7, but the minute hand sure looks like it's at 16 minutes after given the roman numerals.  We will just continue to rely on our cell phones!



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