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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9427528, member: 56"]It could be a Japanese clock. The Japanese used to divide their day into two eight hour periods, with the periods divided by sunrise and sunset. This means that in winter the night hours were long, and the day hours short, the opposite being true in summer. Japanese clocks needed faces that could accommodate the varying lengths of the hours (usually by just swapping out one face for another on a regular cycle). Yours seems to show the hours getting longer on one side, and shorter on the other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9427528, member: 56"]It could be a Japanese clock. The Japanese used to divide their day into two eight hour periods, with the periods divided by sunrise and sunset. This means that in winter the night hours were long, and the day hours short, the opposite being true in summer. Japanese clocks needed faces that could accommodate the varying lengths of the hours (usually by just swapping out one face for another on a regular cycle). Yours seems to show the hours getting longer on one side, and shorter on the other.[/QUOTE]
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