"When naval captains were anchored on the river, they could set their chronometers by the dropping of a ball every day at thirteen hundred hours - 1pm.
Though modern ships rely on radio and satellite signals, the ceremony of the ball continues on a daily basis in the Meridian Courtyard, as it has done every day since 1833."
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