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Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

57 pointsby 51m agopointinthecloud.com
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44m agoHN ↗

How fun! Once, after climbing around in a dusty old church attic like this, I had to head straight to the airport for a flight. Barely made it on because something in the dust kept flagging as dangerous. They were using a test strip on my backpack and clothing and analyzing it in some kind of machine. Stressful as I was already pressed for time! Finally got a clean test and they let me through.

39m agoHN ↗

Is the solution to a positive swab really to keep swabbing until negative?

37m agoHN ↗

Apparently! That or I just have a trustworthy face haha

29m agoHN ↗

They don’t seem to be in contact with the people who actually fixed it.

27m agoHN ↗

The "Status" LED flashes some kind of code - long long, short short short. I assumed the number of flashes would correspond to the time but apparently not. We didn't have time to figure this out before we had to leave.

long-long-short-short-short is 7 in morse code. They don't say what time they tried this or if it ever changed, though, so that's just a hypothesis.

19m agoHN ↗

It's almost certainly this. I suspect the advance button can be used to advance the time via morse code LED flashes and only then committed when you get to the right hour.

Perhaps the long-press commits the hour, which is why it rang once initially.