Students and faculty confused about the time can stop looking at their wristwatches and turn to the wall clocks again.

Most clocks in classrooms and residence halls have been telling the wrong time since last week, but electricians were able to fix the master clock causing the problem yesterday morning, said Carol Strode, interim director of faculties planning and management.

Gary Reed, superintendent of utilities for faculties planning and management, said previously the master clock controlling most of the clocks on campus is located in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Crews are removing asbestos from the building as the first stage of the renovation and construction of the Fine Arts Center.

Reed said crews turned off the master clock while spraying down the room during the asbestos removal.

Electricians could not access the master control room during the asbestos removal, and yesterday was the first day they could safely enter the building, Strode said.

Once electricians entered the room, she said they reset the master clock which automatically set wrong clocks in many academic buildings and residence halls to the correct time.

Strode said because electricians could not gain access to the master clock when it stopped working, they could not tell why it malfunctioned. However, she said, if it happened again, crews will be fix the problem much faster now that asbestos removal is completed in that area of the building.

If any clocks are still no keeping the correct time, Strode said to report the problems to the work control department at 581-3416