This article may blow your mind more than you'd expect:
Why on Earth is the planet’s day getting shorter?
"Winds in Earth’s atmosphere are the biggest influence on the length of each day as a result of their collisions with the land surface, particularly when they hit mountain ranges. Incredible as it may sound, wind actually slows the spin of the Earth this way."
https://theconversation.com/why-on-earth-is-the-planets-day-getting-shorter-260946
boring thread about time and computers
Busy day at Stonehenge as the stones are moved forward one hour
Stonehenge is one of the world's most iconic prehistoric monuments, but did you know that parts of it have been moved in modern times? This fascinating image shows a moment from the 1950s restoration efforts, but with a humorous twist—it almost looks like the stones are being adjusted for daylight saving time! Of course, no one is actually resetting Stonehenge for daylight saving time—but this real historical photo from the 1950s restoration efforts makes it look that way! The Real […]
Polynesians kept time by the moon; each lunar month had a particular name and meaning corresponding to the season in which it fell, but there was no real concept of years until Europeans came along.
The Kiowa appear to have been the opposite. They kept pictorial records of history, with standard symbols to indicate summer and winter, and a picture to represent the most significant event of the season: https://kiowacalendars.org/calendars
ntpd-rs: A new NTP implementation in Rust
https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs
#programming #timekeeping #time #rust #ntp #+
"Atomic clocks are usually either ultra-precise or sturdy, but not both. Now, scientists have created a precise clock that, when put through its paces aboard a naval ship, wavered by only 300-trillionths of a second per day."
TIL that the Romans had elastic time. Much better than Daylight Savings!
"In ancient Rome, an hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer, it could be as long as 75 minutes – and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240328-the-ancient-roman-alternative-to-daylight-savings-time
Keeping accurate time -- it's much more involved than you may believe! (Climate and other factors have effects upon Earth's rotation.) #time #timekeeping #climate #clocks #GPS
@sjvn @melissabeartrix oh look your topic 
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Nerding out over calendars might not be the most adventurous of plots...but when it's a spacefaring far future's castle evoking where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, you just know it's going to be a fun time.
#calendars #timekeeping #spaceopera #scifi #sciencefiction #story #novella #sciencefictionstory #sciencefictionnovella #scifinovella #scifistory
Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FH5W85Q/
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FBX6VKV/
An evening spent among friends in a gothic outpost far beyond any of the galaxies we know, where by the light of a roaring fire, the pitter-patter of freezing rain, the cracks of rolling thunder, they all nerd out over calendars, clocks, and timekeeping.
#calendars #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #farfuture #gothic #timekeeping #story #books
There's been a bit of discussion recently around the potential development of a 'Lunar Timezone', in response to a new era of exploration and growth around our celestial companion.
I certainly think we need to cut the terrestrial umbilical cord of timekeeping away from Earth (this is hard) as we step out into the Solar System (be that humans or robots), but I am thinking bigger.
Instead of just a Lunar time zone, how can we build scalability and universality?
One time system to rule them all.
Thankfully, nature has given us just the tools ..... PULSARS.
My latest feature article for #SpaceAustralia on building a Galactic timekeeping system using pulsars.
https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/breaking-free-shackles-terrestrial-time
Before it gets away from me, here is my simple hashtag #introduction
#mindhacks
#boardgames
#timekeeping
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#chessvariants
#generalism
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#opensource
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See here for a few more:
https://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Scripts/obsessions.txt
How a mechanical watch actually works – an interactive article (long read)
#watch #timepiece #timekeeping #horology #mechanical #longRead
Interesting article of a time when Western clocks were a curiosity in Edo Japan.
"In country that followed a time-keeping system with variable hours, the fixed-hour clock of the Europeans had only symbolic value."
https://daily.jstor.org/a-tale-of-two-times-edo-japan-encounters-the-european-clock/
Funny how the Chinese were the only ancient culture brainy enough to use decimal time. My favorite version, the Shoushi calendar of 1280, divided each day into 100 ke, 100 fen, and 100 miao.
You probably already knew that in the 19th century, knocker-uppers were hired to wake up workers in towns and cities in Britain. But did you know there were knocker-uppers to wake up the knocker-uppers?
