Provides descriptions of several standards of time.
History of standard time in the U.S.
Includes an ecclesiastical calendar and a section on old and new style dating.
Information about calendar history and calendar reform.
To set your watch or clock accurately using a time reference. Explains the various options for residents of North America.
Provides descriptions, proofs and computer programming implementation examples to convert dates to various calendar dates for Julian, Gregorian, and Rata Die calendars.
Explains the differences between several time systems.
Information and history about Daylight Saving Time all over the world.
Shedding light on Queensland's daylight saving opposition.
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]
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