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Power cuts can be neatly illustrated with a digital clock flashing '12:00' or '00:00'.

 

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== Literature ==

* [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|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 8:40 -- the exact moment her groom-to-be jilted her.

* At the end of the multi-part episode of ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' that involved Clark being lost in time, the exact time of his departure is needed to save him. Good thing said departure involved an explosion that damaged the [[Big Bad]]'s watch.

* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Where is Everybody?" depicts a man wandering in an empty town. In one building, he finds a broken clock. The implication is that the clock must have stopped at whatever time disaster struck, scattering the inhabitants. {{spoiler|We later learn that he broke the clock himself in his attempt to escape a space simulation chamber.}}

* In ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV)|Once Upon a Time]]'', the clock in Storybrooke is not working, which is to indicate that time is frozen. When Emma arrives in Storybrooke, the clock starts working again.

 

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