Hall of Fame
No. 14 · Class of 2026

TimeBench

The Lime

For services to punctuality: has measured more wrong clocks than any citrus in history, and does it in milliseconds.

Ten past ten. Give or take a few milliseconds

The plaque

Stage name
The Lime
Instrument
A lime slice as a stopwatch: the rind is the case, the twelve segments are the hours, the stem is the winding crown.
Day job
Shows how many milliseconds your phone or computer clock is ahead or behind, the exact time in UTC, Unix time and your time zone, plus a stopwatch and a timer.
Signature move
Telling you how to fix a clock that drifts, not just that it does.
Plays with
Your device’s clock (its favourite subject), a stopwatch that has never once been late.
Debut
October 6, 2026, the third of four debuts that day
Inducted
October 18, 2026

Meet it at work: TimeBench

The original

The logo you see on the site, in colour.

TimeBench
  • A lime cut across: the rind is the case and the segments are the hours.
  • The hands stand at ten past ten, the angle every watch advert uses.
  • The stem is the winding crown, with a leaf growing out of it.

On paper

The black-and-white version from the blog comics. Model sheet:

  1. calm
  2. delighted
  3. shocked
  4. sly

Biography

Lime rhymes with time, and nobody has ever argued with it. TimeBench is a lime slice set up as a stopwatch: the rind is the case, the twelve segments are the hours, the stem is the winding crown with a leaf, and the hands stand at ten past ten.

It shows how many milliseconds your clock is ahead or behind, the exact time in UTC and Unix time and in your time zone, and it has a stopwatch and a timer. The offset is measured to the millisecond, and the guide explains how to fix a clock that drifts.

In the comics the lime is the cheerful one of the back row, grinning and waving its arms. For its induction it got a proper grin, so you can read the time from its face.

Greatest hits

Where to catch it in the blog comics: