The problem is, the electromechanical devices in the terminal's master clock system that are sending these signals are becoming increasingly unreliable, making the clocks inaccurate.
She married Vincente Minnelli in 1945 & they made "The Clock" & "The Pirate".
He added that he had made the clock to impress his teacher, but realised something was wrong "when I saw her eyebrows go up".
Clark Chen, a senior marketing manager for Oregon Scientific in Tualatin, Ore., which makes the clock, estimated it would take someone two hours to learn how to use it.
What better way to normalize that act than to make the Clock Room seem as calmly everlasting, as naturally commanding, as Father Time himself?
The length of a pendulum with a period of one second is about 39 inches (990 mm), and an increase in length of 0.001 inch (0.025 mm) will make the clock lose about one second per day.
Mitch Janoff, a trustee of the American Clock & Watch Museum, in Bristol, Connecticut, told me, "This configuration is ideal for framing the manufacturer's logo, and, moreover, it makes the clock face look happy".
She, too, was unhappily married — to the director Vincente Minnelli, who had made "The Clock," in which Garland had one of her first adult romantic lead roles and gave one of her best performances.
In last year's IPL he even made the clock strike 13, scoring 37 off a single over from Prashanth Parameswaran (6, 6 (no-ball), 4, 4, 6, 6, 4).
