{"id":363075,"date":"2026-04-04T06:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:36:16","slug":"meet-the-clock-master-keeping-aucklands-giant-time-keepers-in-line-with-daylight-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363075\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the clock master keeping Auckland\u2019s giant time-keepers in line with daylight saving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>3 Apr, 2026 03:00 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Jamie McKinnon, clock maker and owner of the Precision Watch Company, inspects the clock workings inside the Auckland Ferry Building tower on the city waterfront. Photo \/ Alex Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Unlike Santa Claus, Jamie McKinnon, clock and watch maker and repairer, and owner of the Precision Watch Company in New Lynn, can\u2019t be everywhere at once, so when it\u2019s time to change the Auckland Ferry Building clock, it will be well into Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cI normally get here about 11am,\u201d<br \/>\n         he said from inside the clock tower this week. \u201cBut hopefully by the time people are having lunch in town, it will be on time.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">McKinnon has been looking after the Ferry Building clock for more than  50 years, one of 22 public clocks he maintains around the Auckland region from Waiuku to Warkworth, and he\u2019ll be busy from the early hours of Sunday adjusting the time for daylight saving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m a great fan of it [daylight saving], although I hate to see the clocks going backwards,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it means the mornings are a little bit lighter \u2026 and I favour the long days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">McKinnon said the English-made clock in the Ferry Building is high quality, and the timepiece, first started on June 30, 1913, can keep time for hundreds of years, given correct maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 3 Apr, 2026 03:00 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,3952,674,2068,12974,121556,69252,1656,26225,55264,47117,13313,78,296,302,9519,29137,15220,23300,13106,7124,79750,9862,1304,111,43,139,69,6029,2738,190956,190955,58605,915,10809,223,2044,190954,154040,16670,6436,1316,1533,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-363075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-aucklands","10":"tag-building","11":"tag-cant","12":"tag-change","13":"tag-claus","14":"tag-clock","15":"tag-company","16":"tag-daylight","17":"tag-everywhere","18":"tag-ferry","19":"tag-giant","20":"tag-in","21":"tag-into","22":"tag-its","23":"tag-jamie","24":"tag-keeping","25":"tag-line","26":"tag-lynn","27":"tag-maker","28":"tag-master","29":"tag-mckinnon","30":"tag-meet","31":"tag-morning","32":"tag-new-zealand","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-newzealand","35":"tag-nz","36":"tag-once","37":"tag-owner","38":"tag-precision","39":"tag-repairer","40":"tag-santa","41":"tag-saving","42":"tag-sunday","43":"tag-the","44":"tag-time","45":"tag-timekeepers","46":"tag-unlike","47":"tag-watch","48":"tag-well","49":"tag-when","50":"tag-will","51":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}