Clocks

The famous chimes of Big Ben will fall silent next year as the 160-year-old parliamentary clock tower undergoes essential repairs as part of a 29 million-pound ($42 million) project. 

The tower will be partially covered in scaffolding for three years, although engineers plan to keep at least one of the four clock faces always visible. 

Daylight Saving Time in Turkey will end on Nov. 8, two weeks after the rest of the world switched its clocks back. Clocks across the country will be turned back by one hour at 4 a.m., which will then become 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, Nov. 8. 

Clocks across Turkey were put forward to Daylight Saving Time for an hour on March 29 to save electricity.

Bulgaria changed to winter time on 04:00 EEST October 25, with clocks going back to 03:00 (EET).

The country has adopted daylight saving time alongside Europe, advancing clocks in the summer to make better use of evening daylight.

At 4 a.m. on Sunday, October 25, clocks are due to go back an hour.

The idea of putting clocks back was first thought of by William Willett in 1907, but he failed to see it first implemented in 1916 as he died a year earlier. The idea was to implement the change so as to reduce England’s coal usage by cutting down the number of working hours in darkness.

Scientists added one second to the earth's time on June 30, 2015. This was because the earth lost one second rotating while the atomic clock has not lost anything. To catch up with the atomic clock, since they could not speed up the rotation of the earth, they added some time to the virtual time to synchronize with actual time.

Clock tower projects planned to be built in city centers are booming in towns and cities across Turkey.

Municipality projects for the construction of clock towers have gained momentum over the last six months, with hundreds of municipalities across the country initiating tenders for clock towers of various shapes and sizes.

At 4 AM on Sunday the clocks will be set one hour back, reminds the Meteorological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Thus the country returns to astronomical time until the last Saturday of March.

The British-based industrial designer Josh Renouf invented an alarm clock that brews a fresh cup of coffee, reports Boredpanda.com. 

The “Barisieur” alarm clock-coffee-machine automatically brews a cup of coffee right when the alarm goes off.