Dear 100 Hour Board, Whats that weird-loud-scary sound most BYU wall clocks make when its almost the hour??
Dear Clock-o-Loco-o, Rumor has it that the clocks are all tied together on a time schedule, and when one of the clocks isn’t with the other ones and it’s almost the top of the hour, the groaning noise is the clock knowing it is going to be beaten if it isn’t on time with the other ones and therefore it needs to catch up with everyone else and keep the correct time for students. – Duchess, who hates reading really long sentences A Dear Clock-o-Loc-o, That “that weird-loud-scary sound” most BYU clocks make is a result of the University spending way too much money on the clock system. Somebody thought it would be cool if all of the clocks on campus were self correcting (which it is) and so all of the clocks and the bell system on campus are tied together so that they always agree on the time. Unfortunately these clocks are cheap enough/old enough, that in the course of one hour they frequently get off by a time of several minutes, and thus the need for correction every hour. I personally
