Wednesday 1 December 2010

Timepiece Comes In All Shapes and Sizes

You are in Hong Kong, after dark, running late, don't have a watch but need to know the time.  What do you do?

I guess you can always ask somebody on the fly, but you can also cast your gaze upon the spire of the 78-storey Central Plaza for a very neat timepiece up there.


On the roof of Central Plaza, there are 4 neon bands, each representing 15 minutes.  Let's say when all four bands are the same colour, you know you are right on the dot of a fresh hour.

The colours run in the following sequence: 18.00 (red), 19.00 (white), 20.00 (purple), 21.00 (yellow), 22.00 (pink), and 23.00 (green).  At midnight it begins all over again with red, through the 6-colour cycle until 06.00.


Bet many of you didn't know this existed all these years, right?  I love it.





  

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh you figured out the different colors for the different hour? Were you near there last night? Coincidentally, I was staring at it almost whole night while drinking at Pawn.