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A useful method of telling when a certain disaster/event happened is that all of the clocks have stopped at the same time. This can also happen to individual time pieces that have been damaged.
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See also [[Race Against the Clock]], [[Right on the Tick]], and [[24-Hour Trope Clock]].
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'', at one point it is implied that Captain Vidal's pocketwatch originally belonged to his father, which the latter broke at the time of his death so it would freeze at that time in order to show his son "How a brave man dies" and later Vidal had it repaired out of spite. {{spoiler|As Vidal is about to be killed by the rebels he takes out his watch presumably to break it again and asks that his son be told the time of his death only for Mercedes to cut him off to say "He won't even know [his] name" followed by her brother shooting him.}}
* The clock tower in [[Back to The Future]] stopped after being stuck by lightning, giving Marty and Doc a precise time to use the lightning to time travel.
* ''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]]'' (1953). After the Martians use their heat ray for the first time, all the watches of the people in the nearest time stop. When this happens, the people notice that all of the watches stopped at the same time.
* In ''[[Chinatown]]'', Jack places a watch under the car of the person he's tailing. That way he could know at what time he left by the time the watch was run over.
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* ''[[wikipedia:The Quiet Earth|The Quiet Earth]]''. When John Hobson wakes up he finds that his watch has stopped at 6:12. As he explores the deserted world he finds that all watches and clocks have also stopped at 6:12.
* [[Agatha Christie]] used it, of course. In "At the Crossroads", it's one of the stock detective-story elements faked by the [[Genre Savvy]] murderer to make himself look innocent.
* In ''[[Great Expectations]]'', Miss Havisham's clocks are all stopped at 8:
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* There's a ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon where police are investigating a shooting at a clock store. The place has been shot to pieces, all clocks are reading the same time as each other, and the detective is wondering "Now if only we could determine the time of death...."
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