In the interests of accuracy: When London's famous tower clock, Big Ben, gets through striking 12 o'clock, it i& actually 45 seconds past noon or midnight. That is because it takes three--1 quarters of a minute to toll off the j twelve strokes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 23
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