No, you’re not running late, Brisbane’s City Hall clock above King George Square is ahead of time today.
The clock, which is due to sound at 15-minute intervals, chimed three minutes early this morning, at 8.42am.
The time displayed on the clock face is correct, but the bells, well, they’re a little off. This is not an uncommon occurrence.
The clock in the Brisbane City Hall tower is running early today.Credit: Adobe Stock
As our reporter Felicity Caldwell wrote earlier this year, the clock was built in the late 1920s and was described in a brochure as the “most modern and complete electrical time-keeping system in Australia at the present time. The whole system is automatic.”
The clock face is the largest in Australia, and when it was unveiled, many people did not wear watches, let alone have phones in their pockets that told them the time to the second.
Last year, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner revealed the council was trialling a new electric motor on the almost century-old analogue clock and asked people not to worry if the clock was “running a little fast or slow”.
“It’s all part of our plan to keep the beautiful heritage-listed clock tower ticking,” Schrinner posted on LinkedIn.
