From BBC:

In the entirely unlikely event of anyone in China happening to forget the importance of 2008, there is a large digital clock next to Tiananmen Square to remind them.

The clock counts the days, hours and minutes to the start of the Olympic Games in August next year. To say the games are important to China is a bit like saying that oxygen is important to staying alive….[Full Text]

[Image: The Tiananmen Square clock began a one-year countdown in August, via BBC]