Cuckoo clock pair get wound up by British time change (AFP)

by Populux | October 28, 2006 at 08:06 am
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LONDON (AFP) - Britain puts its clocks back one hour at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) on Sunday giving most people a welcome extra hour in bed -- but two cuckoo clock enthusiasts will have precious little time on their hands. Brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski have more than 500 clocks at their Cuckooland museum in Cheshire, northwest England. And the task of winding back the mechanisms in the antique German clocks is going to take them all weekend. "It is not as simple as changing a battery-powered clock because ...

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