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—Yamara ✉ 15:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 39.60.234.110 (talk) 17:08, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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What is the origin of the name "time clock"? It sounds redundant -- all clocks are for telling time! -- Jruderman (talk) 23:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's actually a very very interesting point. I had never noticed that before. --Yamara ✉ 15:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the UK IBM sold it's Time recording division to the employees. The company manufactured the 8000 series time clock at their works in Hammersmith, London. The first electronic time system was manufactured by the company and was called Kronos and was based on the 8000 series clocks. Later the company developed totally electronic system called Time Lord which could be stand-alone or computer linked. It could use time cards and or badges (credit card style cards)This was in the early 1970's. This was went on to be developed into access control and a number of other uses. the company went through a number of changes and some of these later developements were carried out under the name of TDSI (Time and Data Systems International) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.156.15 (talk) 00:32, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invented in the US in 1888?

Sorry, but that German time clock (not the first one) was built in 1881 by de:Württembergische Uhrenfabrik Bürk. Its mobile counterpart is some decades older. They were invented by this guy , who died 1872.... De-okmijnuhb (talk) 18:26, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation with other "clock" pages

Maybe I'm offbase here but could there be a usage for putting a Template:For at the top of this article so people can distinguish it from the pages Clock and/or Clock (disambiguation)? As another user pointed out on this talk page, the phrase "time clock", although widely recognized, is a bit redundant, and I can very easily see someone who doesn't speak English as a first language ending up on this page thinking the article "Time clock" would surely be the article about "clocks that tell time", only to be somewhat confused when it's actually about this one very specific kind of clock. VolatileChemical (talk) 01:01, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]