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Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data


URL: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
ODP description: A directory of sites providing descriptions of civil timekeeping concepts, source code, databases, and maps.
Page title: Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data

International Standard Date and Time Notation


URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
ODP description: by Markus Kuhn - An introduction to ISO 8601, the YYYY-MM-DD date and the 24-hour time notation, with notes on week numbers and on implementation.
Page title: International standard date and time notation

This Day In History


URL: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
ODP description: Today in history every day - often with pictures and sound.
Page title: This Day in History 753BC: Rome founded
Page description: Learn what happened on This Day in History at History.com.

A Walk Through Time


URL: http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html
ODP description: Evolution of timekeeping through the centuries.
Page description: An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present

Calendar Zone


URL: http://www.calendarzone.com/
ODP description: A categorized collection of calendar related sites.
Page title: The Calendar Zone -- Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos!
Page description: Comprehensive categorized calendar catalog currently containing countless correlating connections & calzone recipes. Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! (Formerly CalendarLand)

Today's Calendar and Clock Page


URL: http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml
ODP description: Information on all things relating to calendars, dates, holidays, and time. Find today's date on several different cultural and religious calendars. Includes section on Celestial data, countdown clocks, and information on the dates past events.
Page title: Today Date and Time

NIST Time and Frequency Division


URL: http://tf.nist.gov/
ODP description: The National Institute of Standards and Technology maintains time and frequency standards for the United States.
Page title: NIST: Time and Frequency Division - Division 847

Infoplease: Daylight Saving Time


URL: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html
ODP description: Information and history about Daylight Saving Time all over the world.
Page title: Daylight Saving Time

A Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO


URL: http://www.apparent-wind.com/gmt-explained.html
ODP description: Explains the differences between several time systems.

Atomic Clock Time


URL: http://www.atomictime.net/
ODP description: Displayed in a variety of useful formats. Site is a front-end to U.S. government atomic clocks.

Time


URL: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/Time.html
ODP description: Provides descriptions of several standards of time.
Page title: Time -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Calendar Studies


URL: http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud.htm
ODP description: Articles on the Gregorian and Julian calendars, the ISO date format, the Julian day number system, the Maya calendar, the Goddess lunar calendar, the Liberalia Triday Calendar and C functions for date conversion; plus software for calendrical conversion.
Page title: Hermetic Systems: Calendar Studies
Page description: Articles on the Gregorian and Julian calendars, the ISO date format, the Julian day number system, the Maya calendar, the Goddess lunar calendar, the Liberalia Triday Calendar and others.

Time FAQ


URL: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part3/
ODP description: Frequently Asked Questions about time (from sci.astro news group)
Page title: [sci.astro] Time (Astronomy Frequently Asked Questions) (3/9)

U.S. Time Zones


URL: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/us_tzones
ODP description: History of standard time in the U.S.
Page description: Information on the time zones used by the United States and its territories.

English Calendar


URL: http://www.albion.edu/english/calendar/
ODP description: Includes an ecclesiastical calendar and a section on old and new style dating.
Page title: Ian's English Calendar

Time References


URL: http://htexplained.com/watches/TimeRef/
ODP description: To set your watch or clock accurately using a time reference. Explains the various options for residents of North America.
Page title: Time References for Setting Watches and Clocks

The Calendar


URL: http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/calendar.htm
ODP description: Summarizes the history of various calendars developed and used over the centuries.

United States Code


URL: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/260.html
ODP description: Weights, measures and standard time.
Page title: 15 USC Sec. 260 (01/24/94)

NPR : 'Seize the Daylight': A History of Clock Chaos


URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4572036
ODP description: 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" Author David Prerau talks about the complicated politics and curious history of DST, and he shares an excerpt from his book. [4:54 streaming audio broadcast]

A history of time


URL: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Time_1.html
ODP description: Explains the importance of concept of time in the history of mathematics, science and measurement.
Page title: Classical time

Time - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy


URL: http://www.iep.utm.edu/t/time.htm
ODP description: Time has been studied for thousands of years. Nevertheless, many issues remain to be resolved. This article explores both what is now known about time and what is controversial and unresolved.
Page title: Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]




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