Although since the furthest the clock has been from midnight is seventeen minutes one can't help but think that the group chose a rather unscientific scale to highlight a real problem...
Indeed... it would be good to know what they think the maximum is - if, as they appear to say, it's the "last quarter of the clock", 17 minutes makes very little sense. Then again, I really can't think how you scale this sort of thing.
None of which makes the increased tension more welcome, of course.
I think it also has a tendency to run backwards at times. My evidence for this is scant, to say the least; in the early '80s, Wah! released a single called Seven Minutes To Midnight.
Ah. That URL you gave confirms this. Okay, never mind me, nothing to see here, pass along...
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Date: 2002-02-28 01:49 am (UTC)None of which makes the increased tension more welcome, of course.
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Date: 2002-02-28 02:12 am (UTC)I prefer the Rapture Index: [ http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html ]
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Date: 2002-02-28 06:59 am (UTC)Ah. That URL you gave confirms this. Okay, never mind me, nothing to see here, pass along...