A Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO «
http://www.apparent-wind.com/gmt-explained.html | | Explains the differences between several time systems. |
A Walk Through Time «
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html | | Evolution of timekeeping through the centuries. |
Atomic Clock Time «
http://www.atomictime.net/ | | Displayed in a variety of useful formats. site is a front-end to u. s. government atomic clocks. |
Calendar Studies «
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud.htm | | Information about calendar history and calendar reform. |
Calendar Zone «
http://www.calendarzone.com/ | | A categorized collection of calendar related sites. |
Date Algorithms «
http://vsg.cape.com/~pbaum/date/date0.htm | | Provides descriptions , proofs and computer programming implementation examples to convert dates to various calendar dates for julian , gregorian , and rata die calendars. |
English Calendar «
http://www.albion.edu/english/calendar/ | | Includes an ecclesiastical calendar and a section on old and new style dating. |
Infoplease: Daylight Saving Time «
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html | | Information and history about daylight saving time all over the world. |
International Standard Date and Time Notation «
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html | | An overview of the iso 8601 notation for dates. |
Light of Day «
http://www.lightofday.primetap.com | | Shedding light on queensland's daylight saving opposition. |
NIST Time and Frequency Division «
http://tf.nist.gov/ | | The national institute of standards and technology maintains time and frequency standards for the united states. |
NPR : 'Seize the Daylight': A History of Clock Chaos «
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4572036 | | Benjamin franklin first called for the government to tinker with clock hours in the 1780s. but it wasn't until world war i that the united states adopted daylight-saving time as a way to get more efficiency out of the day. " seize the daylight" |
The Calendar «
http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/calendar.htm | | Summarizes the history of various calendars developed and used over the centuries. |
This Day In History «
http://www.historychannel.com/today/ | | Today in history every day - often with pictures and sound. |
Time «
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/Time.html | | Provides descriptions of several standards of time. |
