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The University of Houston College of engineering, describes how an hourglass works and also provides interesting facts about this timekeeper. |
Learn about the history of time measuring devices in this online Smithsonian Institute exhibit. Page discusses how the accuracy of watches and clocks affected people's perception and usage of time. |
Calculate the exact time in days, hours, minutes and seconds from now until your birthday or any other event. |
International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. It helps to avoid confusion caused by the many different national notations. |
Describes Galileo's work on pendulums and the pendulum clock. |
Is time travel possible? See what Carl Sagan and Einstein had to say about time travel in this NOVA special. |
Clock using video of a hand drawing to display the time. |
Complete five-part explanation of time and how it is measured, including information about clocks, time zones, and calendars. |
Talks about the complicated politics and curious history of daylight standard time. |
Learn how to make a sundial. Instructions are for beginners, intermediate, or advanced, and work for either the northern or southern hemispheres. |
Find out what time it is anywhere in the world. |
Why do we use daylight savings time and who invented it? |
Just how do we measure time and what has Greenwich England got to do with it? |
Gives the current time, synchronized by NIST. Close to 100 different time zones supported, as well as the ability to select the default time zone. |
Talks about how different types of atomic clocks work, and the history of their invention. |
A two-part article that discusses physicist's evolving view of time. |
Answers questions about how an hourglass keeps time and what are the contributing factors determining how long an hourglass lasts. |
Provides online times converter and brief information about GMT/UTC. |
Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time. Learn how to make your own sun clock! |
Explanation of when and why we have daylight savings time. |
Article explores a clock designed to keep accurate time for 10,000 years. |
An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present. |
Introduction to latitude and longitude, a way of calculating exactly where you are anyplace on earth and a way to tell time. |
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