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Today, or better tonight, we will change our clocks to daylight savings time. That means we lose one hour. Bur it also means that we are getting closer to the summer and that’s a good thing if you ask me.

There have been some discussion to cancel the change from winter to summer time, but what would the summer be like when we’d still have winter time?

Changing clocks to summertime means that we “lose” one hour. At 2 o’clock we suddenly have 3 o’clock. So in the morning it will be darker, but in theevenings will get longer. Tecniquly a good thing. But I feel sorry for everyone, including me, who had to pull lates hift today, and early shift tomorrow. ;-)

But honestly, who cares about one hour. And besides, you can change the time on our watches to any time you want. ;-)

We’ve already had some wiered modifications of watches and bracelets in this blog. But somehow I always had the feeling that they fullfilled their purpose. A citrus watch for example could tell you what time it is, even if it gathered the energy from a citrus. A mp3 bracelet was still a bracelet, somewhat, and could play music. But this watch is, in my opinion, out of place . The design might be good, but I think by the time I were able to figure out what time it is, it would be the next day. Maybe some of you are better at cryptology than I am. ;-) Until then I think I’ll stick to more traditional watches like the ones pictured in this posting, that can tell me the time, without using a calculator or whatever you need. ;-)

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This is what the Physikalisch-Technische-Bundesanstalt had to say about next New Year’s Eve:

For three years it was possible to do without it. But now it’s become necessary again. This coming New Year’s Eve, the radio controlled clocks will, after 0:59:59, instead of jumping to 1 o’clock at the next tick of the second, pause shortly in order to insert a small portion of extra time: a leap second. The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) in Paris has prescribed this addition to coordinated universal time (UTC), as our Earth is again too much out of sync. The Earth lags behind atomic clock time, whose ticking seconds do not pay attention to any earthly fluctuation. This leap second will be dispensed to the German clocks by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig.

Somehow funny, but i don’t think that we will notice it at all. :-)

How about you’d build your own watch,without using any traditional batteries? All you need are lemons and a little bit of technical skills. This “bio-watch” only needs one lemon in one week. Since you can’t buy this watch yet you have to make it yourself and, in my opinion, it looks pretty good. :) Finally it can pay off that you payed attention during physics and chemistry class once in a while. ;-)

You can watch how to make lemon-batteries in the video below:

And all who prefer reading than watching – here’s the construction manual as a text.

Back from the fair Baselworld in Switzerland I read the official final report from the exhibition management. While reading I had the idea for a new category:Number of the week!

I’m anxious to know how many weeks we’ll find interesting numbers that concern watches, jewlery and design. Today we start with the number 106.800.

“BASELWORLD 2008 breaks all records
Another record year: BASELWORLD 2008 closed its doors today after eight extremely successful days. The 2,087 exhibiting companies from 45 countries were thrilled at the record figure of 106,800 visitors (up 5%) to the Show from around the world. The World Watch and Jewellery Show exceeded the highest expectations.”

The official final report can be downloaded here.