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[[Image:Clock-2009.png|right|thumb|The current look of clock, 2009-date]]
<!-- coming soon [[Image:Clock-2013.png|right|thumb|The current clock, 2013-]] -->
[[Image:Clock-2009.png|right|thumb|The look of clock, 2009-2011]]
[[Image:Clock.jpg|right|thumb|The look of clock, 2000-2009]]
[[Image:Clock.jpg|right|thumb|The look of clock, 2000-2009]]
[[Image:Oldclock.jpg|thumb|right|The original YSTV clock, 1999-2000]]
[[Image:Oldclock.jpg|thumb|right|The original YSTV clock, 1999-2000]]
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Now S4C, BBC One, C4 and all ITV regions have dropped their on-screen clocks (even on technical failures!), YSTV may be the only UK broadcaster left to use one.
Now S4C, BBC One, C4 and all ITV regions have dropped their on-screen clocks (even on technical failures!), YSTV may be the only UK broadcaster left to use one.


At the start of the 2009/2010 academic year, the Clock was re-written by [[Michael Cullen]], and now runs on PC hardware, with anamorphic widescreen enabled. One thing to notice with the existing clock, is that the hands only move when their unit of time is up - ie. the seconds move after the second, the minute hand moves after that minute, and the hour hand moves only once every hour - this has lead on many occasions to watchless techies missing lectures! When YUSU lend YSTV their plasma screens around campus, they have been known to complain of the clock's marks screenburning!
At the start of the 2009/2010 academic year, the Clock was re-written by [[Michael Cullen]] to run on PC hardware, with anamorphic widescreen enabled. One thing to notice was that the hands only moved when their unit of time is up - ie. the seconds moved after the second, the minute hand moved after that minute, and the hour hand moved only once every hour - this lead on many occasions to watchless techies missing lectures! When YUSU lent YSTV their plasma screens around campus, they were known to complain of the clock's marks screenburning!
 
Clock was revived in 2013 by [[Sam Nicholson]] in HD as part the automated scheduling software [[Tarantula]]. It isn't seen much between programs, instead being shown overnight during closedown. Unlike its predecessor, the hands on this clock move continuously, meaning the minute and hour hands are always accurate.


{{YSTV Productions}}
{{YSTV Productions}}
[[Category:Productions]]
[[Category:Productions]]

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