What is time & why does it move forward? (The Conversation)What is time? (Wikipedia)A debate over the physics of time (Quanta Magazine)Check if the time on your devices matches 'atomic time' anywhere on Earth (Time.is)Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? (Scientific American)A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun (Wikipedia)The period of time during which the Earth completes one rotation with respect to the Sun is called a solar day (Wikipedia)Length of a day & a year on Mars (NASA)Timekeeping on Mars (Wikipedia)The 'stardate' system: How they track time on Star Trek (Wikipedia)How do Star Trek stardates work? (Mental Floss)A discussion on how the Federation sets its clocks on Star Trek (StackExchange, SciFi)What is the arrow of time? (Wikipedia)Where does our arrow of time come from? (Forbes)Travelling forwards through time is possible, Einstein said so (Physics.org)The 'twin paradox' involves identical twins - one travels into space in a high-speed rocket (Sven) & returns home to find that the twin who stayed on Earth has aged more (Geoffrey) (Wikipedia)Does light experience time? (Phys.org)Interstellar (IMDb)Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how gravity affects time (YouTube)Theory claims that time is not the 4th dimension (The Daily Galaxy)The 'jiffy': The duration light takes to travel one fermi (10−15 m, about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum (Wikipedia)The origins of calendars (Wikipedia)The Gregorian calendar is the international standard, but there are many national calendars in use (Wikipedia)Is it time to overhaul the calendar? (Scientific American)Proposals for replacement calendars (Wikipedia)Cool animation - 'A new history for humanity': Proposes adding 10,000 years to the date so it's the year 12,017 (Kurzgesagt, YouTube)How do we know what year it is? (Redditt)Year zero (Wikipedia)'Precision time protocol' is used to synchronise clocks throughout a computer network (Wikipedia)1 January, 1970: When Unix time/Epoch time began for computers (Wikipedia)Convert regular time to Epoch time (Epoch Converter)Set your iPhone's date to January 1, 1970 & you'll kill it (Sydney Morning Herald)Remember Y2K? (Time)What are the main problems with the Y2K computer crisis & how are people trying to solve them? (Scientific American)How quartz clocks & watches work (Explain That Stuff!)What is quartz? (Geology.com)Caesium atomic clocks & the definition of a second (HyperPhysics)How does one arrive at the exact number of cycles of radiation a caesium-133 atom makes in order to define one second? (Scientific American)Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earth’s rotation is slowing down. Could we speed up Earth’s rotation, so that we do not need leap seconds? (xkcd)What is a leap second? (Wikipedia)What is a leap year? (Wikipedia)Neil deGrasse Tyson explains leap years (YouTube)Measure the tilt of the Earth on the solstice with a stick (Starts With a Bang!)All about the solstice-s (EarthSky)Clock drift: When a clock gradually desynchronises from another clock (Wikipedia) Why do we have different time zones? (Wonderopolis)Why do we have time zones? (timeanddate.com)China has only one time zone & that's a problem (The Atlantic)Convert your time to Beijing time (worldtimebuddy)Australian times zones - Eucla in WA has its own! (timeanddate.com)Integer overflow: When a number is too large for available storage (Wikipedia)FAA warning all airlines to reboot Dreamliners regularly (International Business Times)How to convert between date & Unix/Epoch time in Excel (Extend Office)Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics (BMC Bioinformatics)The hidden 'Easter egg' flight simulator in Excel 97 (YouTube)List of hidden 'Easter eggs' in Microsoft products (Wikipedia)Differences between the 1900 & the 1904 date system in Excel (Microsoft)Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, AustraliaCheck out our new Fireside home!
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