File talk:Swiss railway clock.svg
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This is not the Swiss design but very similar to the German one standardized by the DIN, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_Bahnhofsuhr, and http://3quarks.com/de/Bahnhofsuhr/. Please rename! --Stefantauner (talk) 23:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- No, this file certainly must NOT be renamed!
- The Swiss railway clock was designed in 1944 by Hans Hilfiker, a Swiss engineer and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) employee for use by the SBB as a station clock.
- After WWII it was adopted by many european railway companies, including the Deutsche Bundes Bahn, but that doesn't make it a German clock. You'll find this design in many variations (per country). I created this file to resemble the Dutch version (because I'm Dutch and I see this version daily during my commute). It closely (but not exactly) resembles the German version, much more than the Swiss version (wich has a closed roundell in the second hand).
- But that doesn't make it a "Dutch railway clock" nor a "German railway clock". The concept is known around europe, in all its variations, as "Swiss railwai clock" and it's attributed to Hans Hilfiker.
- So no, this file shouldn't be renamed. Also I'm reverting your change in the description, because it's inaccurate. Jahoe (talk) 20:50, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
- Oh and... even in the first two references you mention yourself it's called "Swiss_railway_clock" and "Schweizer_Bahnhofsuhr". :) Jahoe (talk) 21:18, 4 September 2023 (UTC)