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61 minutes an hour

Since 1812, a minute in Crimond, Aberdeenshire has been about 2 seconds shorter than the rest of the world’s. The church clock keeps 61 minutes in an hour. The face and mechanism was corrected in 1948, but angry locals soon had their own time zone reinstated.

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Photo credit: Anne Burgess, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/186217

The clock was paid for and donated to Crimond by James Laing of Haddo, a slave owner, who made his money in the West Indies.

References

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/903312617