The noon cannon is a living old tradition in Cape Town, and it is one of those little peculiarities that make Cape Town an interesting place to visit. Of the cannons used are two of the oldest in the world that are still in daily use, and this tradition has succeeded , in a way, in surviving a Dutch and then British colony, the return of Dutch control, British expansion, the Anglo-Boer War, the rise and fall of apartheid and the subsequent new democracy, and still uses this point for viewing of the region, and today it is released electronically from the Astronomical Observatory In South Africa, the observatory and its accuracy come from an atomic clock.