In fact, it is a night light system that automatically turns on the outside lights when it gets dark and turns them off at dawn. The circuit only applies to incandescent lamps.
This flip-flop with neon lamps was found in a 1969 publication that deals precisely with neon...
This sophisticated circuit is from old Motorola documentation, using common integrated devices...
This circuit is from the Philips manual of 1990. The integrated circuit is not very common. The...