One of my favourite mundane weirdnesses about Edinburgh is that we set the big clock visible approaching the station to be 3 minutes fast to make sure people are on time for their trains. My Favourite mundane weirdness of Edinburgh is that we check this by firing a cannon.
Sorry, a cannon?
Every day but Sunday :)
@calamitys-child I hope you don’t mind me pulling your tags out for posterity
Wait, is the cannon set to Big Clock Time or Actual Time?
Cannon set to real time, big clock check themselves against it to make sure they’re just slightly ahead! And it fires blank, though I worked out the range of it once and figured out if we ever loaded it I could put a hole in my mate’s roof
