Editing Time signal (section)

=== Signal guns ===

In [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], a "[[9 O'Clock Gun]]" is still shot every night at 9&nbsp;pm.  (This gun was brought to [[Stanley Park]] in 1894 by the [[Fisheries and Oceans Canada|Department of Fisheries]] originally to warn [[fishermen]] of the 6:00&nbsp;pm Sunday closing of fishing.) The 9:00&nbsp;pm firing was later established as a time signal for the general population. Until a time gun was installed, the nearby [[Brockton Point]] lighthouse keeper detonated a stick of dynamite. Elsewhere in Canada, a "Noon Gun" is fired daily from the citadels in [[Citadel Hill (Fort George)|Halifax]] and [[Citadelle of Quebec|Quebec City]] and from [[Signal Hill, St. John's|Signal Hill]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/signalhill/activ/activ-and-exp/Noon-Day-Gun|title=Noon Day Gun - Signal Hill National Historic Site|first=Government of Canada|last=Parks Canada Agency|date=10 April 2019|website=www.pc.gc.ca}}</ref>

In the same manner, a [[Noon Gun]] has been fired in [[Cape Town]], since 1806.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bokaap.co.za/noon-gun/|title=Noon Gun -|website=bokaap.co.za|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref> The gun is fired daily from the Lion Battery at [[Signal Hill (Cape Town)|Signal Hill]].

The [[Noonday Gun]] serves a similar purpose in [[Hong Kong]]. The tradition, which started in the 1860s under British colonial rule, has become a tourist attraction in recent times. 

A cannon was fired at one o'clock every weekday at [[Liverpool]], at the [[Edinburgh Castle|Castle]] in [[Edinburgh]], and also at [[Perth Observatory|Perth]] to establish the time. The Edinburgh "[[One O'Clock Gun]]" is still in operation. A cannon located at the top of Santa Lucia Hill, in [[Santiago]], is shot every noon.

In [[Rome]], on the [[Janiculum]], a hill west of the [[Tiber]] since 1904 a cannon is fired daily at noon towards the river as a time signal. This was introduced in 1847 by [[Pope Pius IX]] to synchronise all the church bells of Rome. It was situated in [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] until 1903 when it was moved to [[Monte Mario]] for a few months until it was placed in its current position. The cannon was silenced from the start of [[WWII]] for about twenty years until 21 April 1959, the 2712th anniversary of Rome's founding, and has been in use since then.

For many years an old cannon was fired "about noon" from a mountain near [[Kabul]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0422/042212.html|title=The noon gun|date=22 April 1982|access-date=8 April 2018|journal=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalsilver.co.uk/TimeGun/kabul_gun.html|title=The Old Noon Day Gun of Kabul - Afghanistan|website=digitalsilver.co.uk|access-date=8 April 2018|archive-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828020350/http://www.digitalsilver.co.uk/TimeGun/kabul_gun.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>