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Adapted with permission from an online article by Bob Aldrich, California Energy Commission Introduction Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. (Note that it is Daylight Saving (singular) Time, NOT Daylight Saving S Time. We are saving daylight, so it is singular and not plural.) Year DST Begins 2 a.m. DST Ends 2 a.m. April 2 October 29 April 7 October 27 April 6 October 26 April 5 October 25 April 4 October 31 April 2 October 29 April 1 October 28 April 7 October 27 April 6 October 26 April 4 October 31 Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona). Other parts of the world observe Daylight Saving Time as well. While European nations have been taking advantage of the time change for decades, in 1996 the European Union (EU) standardized a EU-wide "summertime period." The EU version of Daylight Saving Time runs from the last Sunday in March through the last Sunday in October. During the summer, Russia's clocks are two hours ahead of standard time. During the winter, all 11 of the Russian time zones are an hour ahead of standard time. During the summer months, Russian clocks are advanced another hour ahead. With their high latitude, the two hours of Daylight Saving Time really helps to save daylight. In the southern hemisphere where summer comes in December, Daylight Saving Time is observed from October to March. Equatorial and tropical countries (lower latitudes) don't observe Daylight Saving Time since the daylight hours are similar during every season, so there's no advantage to moving clocks forward during the summer.

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Home Welcome Current Time Exhibits ... Staff Radio Stations WWV WWVH WWVB Services Computer Time Telephone Time Calibrations Seminars ... Survey Results Standards NIST-F1 Space Clock History Time Transfer Carrier Phase Common View Digital Time One Way ... Two Way Metrology Phase Noise Tutorial Research Ion Storage Optical Data Time Scale GPS LORAN-C WWVB T he very earliest NIST work in the area of time and frequency took place within the Weights and Measures Section in Washington. One of the first objectives was the testing of watches and other timekeeping apparatus. In 1904 NIST purchased a very stable pendulum clock, the Riefler Clock (left) from Clemens Riefler in Germany. This clock served as a time interval standard until 1929 when it was replaced by the Shortt Clock (right), a double pendulum clock developed at Edinburgh Observatory and fabricated in London. This mechanical standard was replaced only a few years later by standards based on electronic methods. NIST's initial involvement in electronic time-and-frequency methods was spurred by problems encountered in the early days of radio broadcasting in the United States. Commercial radio broadcasters were having difficulty keeping their broadcasts "on frequency" because they lacked adequate frequency standards. This requirement launched NBS into the development of inductance-capacitance wavemeters and then Quartz-Crystal Frequency Standards In 1923, in order to meet the growing needs of the broadcast industry, NIST initiated radio broadcasts of frequency signals that continue to this day, although these now include time information as well.

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Ancient Calendars Early Clocks A Revolution in Timekeeping The "Atomic" Age World Time Scales and Time Zones NIST Time Services Bibliography Early Clocks N ot until somewhat recently (that is, in terms of human history) did people find a need for knowing the time of day. As best we know, 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa began to make clocks to augment their calendars. With their attendant bureaucracies, formal religions, and other burgeoning societal activities, these cultures apparently found a need to organize their time more efficiently. Sun Clocks T he Sumerian culture was lost without passing on its knowledge, but the Egyptians were apparently the next to formally divide their day into parts something like our hours. Obelisks (slender, tapering, four-sided monuments) were built as early as 3500 BCE. Their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial, enabling people to partition the day into morning and afternoon. Obelisks also showed the year's longest and shortest days when the shadow at noon was the shortest or longest of the year. Later, additional markers around the base of the monument would indicate further subdivisions of time. Another Egyptian shadow clock or sundial, possibly the first portable timepiece, came into use around 1500 BCE. This device divided a sunlit day into 10 parts plus two "twilight hours" in the morning and evening. When the long stem with 5 variably spaced marks was oriented east and west in the morning, an elevated crossbar on the east end cast a moving shadow over the marks. At noon, the device was turned in the opposite direction to measure the afternoon "hours."

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Keeping faith with history: Actors need a lesson in time, place By Gary Schwan, Cox News Service The great man had just zipped up his pants after adding to the Rhine River. The pugnacious stance and snarky grin said it all: George C. Scott got it just about right. The great man wasn't Scott, of course, but Gen. George Patton, posing for photographers after vividly demonstrating what he thought of Adolf Hitler. In "Patton," Scott won an Oscar for his portrayal of the World War II hero. I'd always suspected that Scott, who can ham with the best, might have over-cooked Patton's odd mixture of truculence and whimsy. But after seeing the photograph of the modern-day Caesar's version of traversing the Rhine, I'm not so sure. It's not news that history is frequently ill-served by Hollywood. The most egregious example is the distortion of history the simplification of it in order to make contemporary political points. But history is also butchered by actors who can project themselves forward on the screen, but not backward in time. Two callow actors are the most recent offenders, for two slightly different reasons Matthew McConaughey in "Amistad," and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic." "Amistad," the story of an 1839 slave revolt whose legal ramifications led to the Supreme Court, is blessedly free of cheap moralizing about race. And all of the actors portray 19th-century characters more or less convincingly. Save for McConaughey as Roger Baldwin, a real-life abolitionist attorney.

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50. What's The Time? A means of keeping track of the increments of time and of actions or processes toregulate the rate of a clock. Read about the history of clocks at the http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2000/11/113000_clocks.jhtml

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Clock History This page contains information about the history of time, time keeping, clocks and related items. We hope you find it interesting reading. Every effort has been made to identify the authors but in some cases, the authors wish to remain anonymous. In these instances, we simply state "Author Anonymous", which is accepted as the appropriate way to indicate that the article was written by someone else. A Brief History of Clocks: From Thales to Ptolemy (Author "anonymous") The earliest example, in western culture, of a celestial sphere is attributed to the presocratic philosopher Thales. Unfortunately, little is known about Thales' sphere beyond Cicero's description in the De re publica: For Gallus told us that the other kind of celestial globe, which was solid and contained no hollow space, was a very early invention, the first one of that kind having been constructed by Thales of Mileus, and later marked by Eudoxus with the constellations and stars which are fixed in the sky (Price 56). This description is helpful for understanding the basic form of Thales' sphere, and for pinpointing its creation at a specific point in time. However, it is clearly a simplification of events that occurred several hundred years before Cicero's lifetime. Why would Thales' create a spherical representation of the heavens and neglect to indicate the stars? Of what use is a bowling ball for locating celestial bodies? Considering Eudoxus' preoccupation with systems of concentric spheres, a more logical explanation is that Thales marked his sphere with stars, and Eudoxus later traced the ecliptic and the paths of the planets on the exterior. The celestial sphere in question probably resembled this early Persian example.

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57. References Urbana, 1992. Walser, Robert (ed.) keeping time readings in jazzhistory (New York Oxford University Press) 1999. White, Shane http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history/hsty3080/3rdYr3080/Dizzy/DIZZY WEB I/re

REFERENCES HOME Reading Texts "The Cult of Bebop" ISSUES ... RACE Bakara, Amiri (Jones, LeRoi), Blues people; Negro music in white America . New York, W. Morrow, 1963. Bakara, Amiri (Jones, LeRoi), 'Jazz and the white critic', Down Beat, August 15, 1963, pp. 16-17, 34; repreinted in LeRoi Jones, Black Music , Quill, New York, 1967, pp 11-20. Bakara, Amiri ‘Diz’, African American Review , Volume 29, Number 2, 1995. Becker, Howard S., 'The Professional Dance Musician and His Audience', Journal of Sociology , 57, 1951-2, pp 136-44. Belair, Felix Jr., "United States Has Secret Sonic Weapon - Jazz," New York Times , Novermber 6, 1955, pp.1, 42. Belgrad, Daniel, The culture of spontaneity : improvisation and the arts in postwar America, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998. DeVeaux, Scott, The birth of bebop : a social and musical history : University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997. Ellison, Ralph, cited in The birth of bebop History and memory in African-American culture, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. Harris, Pat, ‘Nothing But Bop? ‘Stupid,’ Says Miles’. Interview reprinted: Down Beat , July, 1994.

58. Sources For Time Zone And Daylight Saving Time Data A directory of sites providing descriptions of civil timekeeping concepts, source code, databases, and maps.Category Reference time...... database contains code and data that represent the history of local database representsa national region where all clocks keeping local time have agreed http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm

Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data @(#)tz-link.htm 7.38 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 offsets and daylight-saving rules. This database (often called tz or zoneinfo ) is used by several implementations, including the GNU C Library used in GNU/Linux FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD ... Solaris , and UnixWare Each location in the database represents a national region where all clocks keeping local time have agreed since 1970. Locations are identified by continent or ocean and then by the name of the location, which is typically the largest city within the region. For example, America/New_York represents most of the US eastern time zone; America/Indianapolis represents most of Indiana, which uses eastern time without daylight saving time (DST); America/Detroit represents most of Michigan, which uses eastern time but with different DST rules in 1975; and other entries represent smaller regions like Starke County, Kentucky, which switched from central to eastern time in 1991. To use the database, set the

59. A Brief History Of Clocks From Thales To Ptolemy The clock is one of the most influential discoveries in the history of western Theproblem with keeping time on an armillary sphere is that a constant source http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Jesse/CLOCK1A.html

Please note: These papers were prepared for the Greek Science course taught at Tufts University by Prof. Gregory Crane in the spring of 1995. The Perseus Project does not and has not edited these student papers. We assume no responsibility over the content of these papers: we present them as is as a part of the course, not as documents in the Perseus Digital Library . We do not have contact information for the authors. Please keep that in mind while reading these papers. A Brief History of Clocks: From Thales to Ptolemy By: Jesse Weissman Look at the comments on this paper. The earliest example, in western culture, of a celestial sphere is attributed to the presocratic philosopher Thales. Unfortunately, little is known about Thales' sphere beyond Cicero's description in the De re publica For Gallus told us that the other kind of celestial globe, which was solid and contained no hollow space, was a very early invention, the first one of that kind having been constructed by Thales of Mileus, and later marked by Eudoxus with the constellations and stars which are fixed in the sky. (Price 56) This description is helpful for understanding the basic form of Thales' sphere, and for pinpointing its creation at a specific point in time. However, it is clearly a simplification of events that occurred several hundred years before Cicero's lifetime. Why would Thales' create a spherical representation of the heavens and neglect to indicate the stars? Of what use is a bowling ball for locating celestial bodies? Considering Eudoxus' preoccupation with systems of concentric spheres, a more logical explanation is that Thales marked his sphere with stars, and Eudoxus later traced the ecliptic and the paths of the planets on the exterior. The celestial sphere in question probably resembled this

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