Which english university clock displays a time different to GMT?

[aviator]

Which english university clock displays a time different to GMT? Apparently a clock that is used at an English university displays the time before it was standardized to GMT.

Please help!!!!

[ABerrant]

Not quite.

For many years the clock on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, was fitted with two minute hands, one for local time and one for GMT. However, although the clock now only displays standard time, "Oxford Time" is still observed for the traditional 101 rings of Christ Church College's famous bell, Great Tom, every evening at 9pm (9.05pm GMT). This dates from the foundation of the college when the bell rang once for each of the college's original 101 students, in order to tell them to return to the college before the gates were locked.

[New Judge]

Not entirely unrelated is the fact that the railways were instrumental in getting GMT adopted across the UK. Throughout the late 1800s the railways were pressing for the adoption of a standard time throughout the country. Before, although London time was kept by chronometers on board ships to enable them to calculate their longitude, each town kept its own “local time” which varied according to the longitude the town was on. This played havoc with railway timetables and it was in 1880 that GMT was legally adopted as the standard time throughout the UK.

However, local municipal opposition to the town losing its own local time meant that for some time after this many public clocks showed GMT and local time by means of two minute hands.

[jno]

there's one in Bristol, though not at a university

http://en.wikipedia.o...change,_Bristol#Clock