NEW YORK – Students at New York City’s Public School 242 can’t tell what time it is.

It’s not because they haven’t learned about hours, minutes, or seconds, but rather because none of the school’s clocks have operated correctly for over a year, DNAinfo.com reports.

The news site first reported on the Harlem elementary school’s nonfunctioning clocks in June 2014, after 10-months of complaints and assurances from the city’s education officials that they would be fixed.

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At that time, the city’s Department of Education officials told DNAinfo the clocks would be repaired over the summer, but when school started again this past fall, they were still broken.

DOE spokeswoman Marge Feinberg told the news site in September 2014 that the clocks were “being completed expeditiously,” but parents contend that’s simply not the case.

“To my knowledge, none of the clocks have been fixed,” P.S. 242 parent Theresa Hammonds said.

Regardless, DOE spokesman Harry Hartfield insisted this week that education officials “replaced half of the school’s clocks and are right now working with the manufacturer to replace the remaining clocks.”

P.S. 242’s public address system was also not operational for over a year, but that has since been repaired, Hartfield contends.

However, another DOE employee, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told DNAinfo Hartfield is full of hot air. The PA system is fixed, but the clocks are not. Hartfield could not produce a date that the clocks were repaired when pressed by the news site.

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“That is not accurate. None of the clocks have been fixed,” the unnamed DOE employee told the news site.

“It was supposed to get done over the summertime. Now it’s January and it still hasn’t been fixed.”

P.S. 242 officials in October touted the school’s teachers as “pioneers of the public school system” after they each became individually certified during a three-year process to gain the prestigious International Baccalaureate status, DNAinfo reports.

“We were very happy that we were able to accomplish it,” principal Denise Desjardin told the news site at the time.

The anonymous DOE source, however, believes the nonfunctioning clocks are dragging down the school’s reputation and student success.

Teachers and other school employees have brought in their own clocks or watches to stay on schedule, but students are on their own, the source said.

“It throws the students off,” the source said. “If they have to be at the gym at 1 p.m. how can they know if they are late?”

Desjardin declined to discuss the problems with the clocks on previous occasions and was unavailable when DNAinfo attempted to contact her Friday.