The Long Now Foundation was established in 1996 to develop the Millennium Clock & Library Projects and promote long term thinking.

International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. It helps to avoid confusion caused by the many different national notations.

Categorized directory of world calendars. Categories include celestial, historical, holidays, religious, women, and more.

An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present ...

Today's Calendar and Clock Page This page has received the Top 5% of the Web designation from the Point Survey. See their review here. Named Cosmic Site of the Night for 5/9/96. Named June Site of the Month in the Reference category by The Net magazine, June 1996. Dr. Webster's Cool Site for 5/20/96. Listed in the Awesome Universal Web 500 Two Bones from Cyberhound This page has been accessed ...

Why do we have Daylight Saving Time History from Benjamin Franklin to the present. U.S. law and practice. Worldwide time change dates. Daylight Saving Time. Just as sunflowers turn their heads to catch every sunbeam, so too have we discovered a simple way to get more from our sun.

Compute Local Apparent Sidereal Time Sidereal time is the hour angle of the vernal equinox, the ascending node of the ecliptic on the celestial equator. The daily motion of this point provides a measure of the rotation of the Earth with respect to the stars, rather than the Sun. Local mean sidereal time is computed from the current Greenwich Mean Sideral Time plus an input offset in longitude ...

TIMES OF OUR LIVES Time is the element in which we exist. ... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it. --Joyce Carol Oates, Marya Much can be made of Bob Dylan's the times, they are a changin'. According to William Irwin Thompson, we're now AT THE EDGE OF HISTORY, buffeted about by John Naisbitt's MEGATRENDS, and with millions suffering from Alvin Toffler's FUTURE SHOCK. In the ...

Information about animal mythology complete with an A2Z (Interactive 'EBOOK' part of Mystical World Wide Web, constantly updated, designed to be one of the fastest sites on the mystical theme ...

Indianapolis Time worked its way eastward along the US 40 corridor to near the Ohio border. The US Uniform Time Act of 1966 places Indiana in the Eastern time zone. In 1969, ten (10) counties in the Chicago and Evansville corners of the state were moved to the Central time zone. At some point, according to the Indiana Film Commission Online, an eleventh, Starke County, in the northwest (Chigago ...

Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data @(#)tz-link.htm 7.35 Please send corrections to this web page to the time zone mailing list. The tz database The public-domain time zone database contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to UTC ...

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