pstp astro "The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian where the date changes as one travels east or west across it. Roughly along 180° longitude, with diversions to pass around some territories and island groups, it mostly corresponds to the time zone boundary separating −12 and +12 hours Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (Greenwich Mean Time – GMT). Crossing the IDL travelling east results in a day or 24 hours being subtracted (so the traveler repeats the date), and crossing west results in a day being added. The exact number of hours depends on the time zones." , 4 -10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... , 3 -10 -13 What was name of movie where race horse was transported across state line so foal would be born on New Year's day? http://wiki.answers.com/Q... http://articles.timesofindia.i... sort ? http://www.pickshorseracing.com/ ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.jockeyclub.com/registr... - Thomas Page

Daylight saving time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 11 -6 By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007. DST currently starts on the second Sunday of March, which is three or four weeks earlier than in the past, and it ends on the first Sunday of November, one week later than in years past. The time is adjusted at 2:00 a.m. (02:00) local time. This change resulted in a new DST period that is four weeks (five in years when March has five Sundays) longer than in previous years - Thomas Page

Tempus fugit is a Latin expression meaning "time flees", more commonly translated as "time flies". It is frequently used as an inscription on clocks. The expression was first recorded in the poem Georgics written by Roman poet Virgil: Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore, which means, "But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://ourfriendben.wordpress.com/2010... - Thomas Page

http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_new... http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-oc... Samoan Islands and Tokelau ~ In 2011, more than 119 years after that change was made, Samoa shifted back to west of the date line by skipping Friday 30 December 2011.[7] This changed the timezone from UTC−11 to UTC+13 (and from UTC−10 to UTC+14 during daylight saving time). ~ The Samoan Islands—today divided into Samoa and American Samoa—were west of the date line until 1892, when King Malietoa Laupepa was persuaded by American traders to adopt the American date, being three hours behind California, to replace the former Asian date, being four hours ahead of Japan. The change was made by repeating Monday 4 July 1892, American Independence Day.[5][6] In 2011, more than 119 years after that change was made, Samoa shifted back to west of the date line by skipping Friday 30 December 2011.[7] This changed the timezone from UTC−11 to UTC+13 (and from UTC−10 to UTC+14 during daylight saving time).[5] The International Date Line now passes between Samoa and American Samoa, with American Samoa remaining aligned with the American date. Samoa made the change because Australia and New Zealand have become its biggest trading partners, and also have large communities of expatriates. Being 21 hours behind made business difficult because having weekends on different days meant only four days of the week were shared workdays.[8] Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand north of Samoa that previously used UTC−10, also crossed the date line at the same time for the same reasons and now uses UTC+14.[9] , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Static Calendar and Single Time Zone For All, Propose US Scholars http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2... - Thomas Page

Timekeeping devices syncronized as close as possible to internet time. Some + - 2 min since last syncro http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Happy New Year http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... [[ 2 -23 http://io9.com/how-wro... - Thomas Page

Like sand through the Hourglass these are the days of our lives ] http://friendfeed.com/citizen... ]] Scientific_American http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... •• That simple question is probably asked more often today than ever. In our clock-studded society, the answer is never more than a glance away, and so we can blissfully partition our days into ever smaller increments for ever more tightly scheduled tasks, confident that we will always know it is 7:03 P.M. Modern scientific revelations about time, however, make the question endlessly frustrating. If we seek a precise knowledge of the time, the elusive infinitesimal of “now” dissolves into a scattering flock of nanoseconds. Bound by the speed of light and the velocity of nerve impulses, our perceptions of the present sketch the world as it was an instant ago—for all that our consciousness pretends otherwise, we can never catch up. Even in principle, perfect synchronicity escapes us. Relativity dictates that, like a strange syrup, time flows slower on moving trains than in the stations and faster in the mountains than in the valleys. The time for our wristwatch is not exactly the same as the time for our head. It is roughly 7:04 P.M. Our intuitions are deeply paradoxical. Time heals all wounds, but it is also the great destroyer. Time is relative but also relentless. There is time for every purpose under heaven, but there is never enough. Time flies, crawls and races. Seconds can be both split and stretched. Like the tide, time waits for no man, but in dramatic moments it also stands still. It is as personal as the pace of one's heartbeat but as public as the clock tower in the town square. We do our best to reconcile the contradictions. It seems like 7:05 P.M. And of course, time is money. It is the partner of change, the antagonist of speed, the currency in which we pay attention. It is our most precious, irreplaceable commodity. Yet still we say we don't know where it goes, and we sleep away a third of it, and none of us really can account for how much we have left. We can find 100 ways to save time, but the amount remaining nonetheless diminishes steadily. It is already 7:06 P.M. Time and memory shape our perceptions of our own identity. We may feel ourselves to be at history's mercy, but we also see ourselves as free-willed agents of the future. That conception is disturbingly at odds with the ideas of physicists and philosophers, however, because if time is a dimension like those of space, then yesterday, today and tomorrow are all equally concrete and determined. The future exists as much as the past does; it is just in a place that we have not yet visited. Somewhere, it is 7:07 P.M. “Time is the substance of which I am made,” Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote. “Time is a river that carries me away, but I am the river; it is a tiger that destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” This special issue of Scientific American summarizes what science has discovered about how time permeates and guides both our physical world and our inner selves [ Hourglass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ Soap Opera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ Canonical_hours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Liturgy_of_the_Hours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Obelisk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page