Telling the time in Spanish. What time is it? - ¿Qué hora es? It’s three o’clock - son las tres. In Spanish you say son and las before the time. Son las ocho. Son las nueve. The only time ...

The New York ball doesn’t work precisely the same, but it was clearly inspired by an ancient method of indicating the time. Apparently, even the ancient Greeks used ball dropping to indicate time.

[drj113] posts his cool word clock. After seeing a similar clock on an industrial design website, he set out to make his own version. He made custom pcbs with the toner-etch method. The front is ...