MSU Worker Is In Charge Of Adjusting Nearly 400 Clocks For Daylight Savings

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI)- Daylight saving time is just around the corner.

For most of us, we only have a few clocks and watches to worry about, but imagine “springing forward” with nearly 400 clocks, that’s the task Harold Rone is faced with.

Rone has been adjusting, repairing, and winding clocks for more than four decades.

Rone said it’s not that difficult, however, it’ll take an entire eight hour shift to make sure each clock is properly adjusted.

“When you change into daylight savings time all you have to do, you’ve got to run that hand around to wherever it’s going to chime, whatever hour it is and let them do their thing, whether they’re supposed to chime and some of them will chime on the half-hour and some of them strike once on the half-hour and then it strikes whatever that hour is,” said Rone who works at the Cullis and Gladys Wade Clock Museum at Mississippi State University.

Rone has been in charge of changing the clocks for the past several years now, and said it’s much easier to adjust the clocks when time springs forward compared to setting them back an hour.

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