[Ken H]

See the 2 rods coming from the center, with the long one pointing up and to the right, and the short one pointing up and to the left?

What are those for?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

“See the 2 rods coming from the center, with the long one pointing up and to the right, and the short one pointing up and to the left?

What are those for?”
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LOL.

I shouldn’t laugh too much, as I’m sure there may well be young people that are only used to reading time on a digital display.

I have a radio-controlled clock on the wall in my apartment, and it displays in 24-hour time. A young American colleague visiting my pad was confused, to put it mildly.

“What’s 17:22 mean?” I had to explain it to her.

[Swordmaker]

See the 2 rods coming from the center, with the long one pointing up and to the right, and the short one pointing up and to the left?

What are those for?

I believe they commemorate something about the time when John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. . . other than that, I haven't got a clue