Nerding out over calendars might not be the most adventurous of plots...but when it's a spacefaring far future's castle evoking where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, you just know it's going to be a fun time.

#calendars #timekeeping #spaceopera #scifi #sciencefiction #story #novella #sciencefictionstory #sciencefictionnovella #scifinovella #scifistory

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⏰ Are you team manual wind or #automatic? Learn about the #mechanics, traditions, and allure of these timekeeping marvels.

Read the full article to unravel the debate: https://laikrodis.net/post/manual-wind-watch-vs-automatic-watch

#WatchDebate #MechanicalWatches #Timekeeping #ReadMore #blog #Blogs

Timekeeping For Distributed Computers - Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and th... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/13/timekeeping-for-distributed-computers/ #distributedcomputer #logicalclock #timekeeping #vectorclock #clockhacks #computer #clock

🚀 Quantum Secrets of Time ⏰

1️⃣ Quantum photons revolutionize precision science, enabling accurate time signal transmission. ✨

2️⃣ Preserve atomic-clock precision with quantum light signals. ⏱️🔬

3️⃣ Reliable transmission of atomic clock signals opens possibilities in communication, navigation, and physics experiments. 🌐🛰️

Prepare for a quantum leap! 🌌

#QuantumPhysics #Timekeeping #ScientificAdvancements
🌐 Src: https://go.digitalengineer.io/CK

The passage of time has always been a preoccupation of human beings, whether it be a question of satisfying basic needs such as when to eat and sleep, the importance of seasons for migratory and agricultural purposes or a more sophisticated measuring of time into defined periods of weeks, days and hours. https://www.worldhistory.org/Timekeeping/ #History #GreekScience #Technology #Timekeeping

The passage of time has always been a preoccupation of human beings, whether it be a question of satisfying basic needs such as when to eat and sleep, the importance of seasons for migratory and agricultural purposes or a more sophisticated measuring of time into defined periods of weeks, days and hours. https://www.worldhistory.org/Timekeeping/ #History #GreekScience #Technology #Timekeeping

An evening spent among friends in a gothic outpost far beyond any of the galaxies we know, where by the light of a roaring fire, the pitter-patter of freezing rain, the cracks of rolling thunder, they all nerd out over calendars, clocks, and timekeeping.

#calendars #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #farfuture #gothic #timekeeping #story #books

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Saturday was laser cutter day, Sunday was 5-minute epoxy day, today was fixing-cover-with-a-thread morning, and tada! The remarkably accurate quartz clock got its final form. From close up it has a slightly bulky feel that reminds me of a Soviet-era tractor. Those were sturdy pieces.

In style for a timepiece, it's *just* in time for a @hackaday low power submission :)

#lowpower #arduino #timekeeping

There's been a bit of discussion recently around the potential development of a 'Lunar Timezone', in response to a new era of exploration and growth around our celestial companion.

I certainly think we need to cut the terrestrial umbilical cord of timekeeping away from Earth (this is hard) as we step out into the Solar System (be that humans or robots), but I am thinking bigger.

Instead of just a Lunar time zone, how can we build scalability and universality?

One time system to rule them all.

Thankfully, nature has given us just the tools ..... PULSARS.

My latest feature article for #SpaceAustralia on building a Galactic timekeeping system using pulsars.

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/breaking-free-shackles-terrestrial-time

#RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #Navigation #Timing #Positioning #TimeKeeping #Astrodon

#TIL Until now, there has been no standard for #timekeeping on the moon. But the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to change that.

And: “clocks on the Moon run faster than their terrestrial equivalents – gaining around 56 microseconds or millionths of a second per day.”

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Telling_time_on_the_Moon

I think it's a miracle that most of the world managed to settle on a consistent set of symbols for Hindu-Arabic numerals.

Don't worry, we still didn't manage to agree on a single standard for:

- basic #math symbols (decimal separator, times operator…)
- names for powers of 1000 above one million
- measurement units
- binary prefixes (MiB vs. MB)
- date notation
- 12- vs. 24-hour clock (not to mention AM/PM at 12 o'clock)

…and I have my own opinion on all of these!

#TimeKeeping #standards

I do wonder: if the world settled at aligning the prime meridian to the longitude of Paris Observatory, would certain countries keep a separate system of longitudes and reference time?

#TimeKeeping

Launching soon: a #DataCooperative with a focus on digital rights #performance #timekeeping #engagement 🍕 https://github.com/dribdat/coop

I've finished reading David Rooney's "About Time", and previously I've read Chad Orzel's "A Brief History of Timekeeping", and I recommend reading both.

The first one's more focused on politics and sociology (the "why" and "how does it affect us"), the second one on physics and technology ("how"). Both provide unique facts and even when they overlap, they provide two different backgrounds - one British, the other one American.

#Bookstodon #TimeKeeping

I've finished reading Chad Orzel's "A Brief History of #TimeKeeping" today. It's been quite an interesting read, and surprisingly informing. Particularly piqued my interest by covering both the historical background and some technical details.

That said, many of the more detailed explanations just didn't work for me. Perhaps that's language barrier, though.

For centuries we've been working towards constructing timepieces that would be accurate enough to reliably indicate the time of day without needing to be adjusted using astronomical measures. We've basically been trying to combine the two "aspects" of time into one.

Then we discovered that the Earth's rotation velocity isn't entirely constant, and we ended up having to split them again.

The irony.

#TimeKeeping

#sdtps Speaking She

Scene: 38.
There will be a #trifold increase in #timekeeping.
Fierce #winds will rock the #steeples; the #minarets and the thousands of #shapes in like #formations.
#Stone will become #cream and #baskets full of #liquid bananas will drench the #morning #dew.

#belfry #spire #tower #portico #obelisk

#gem #gemstone #jewel

#storytelling #peace #worldpeace #Nature #RVBD45

I've just learned that we need to correct for time dilation in the high precision clocks and it blew my mind. I mean, it's not surprising in retrospective but somehow I never considered having to account for it with the altitude differences on the surface of Earth.

#TimeKeeping #physics

Epochalypse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34284759

The frame corrections were incredibly complex—and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely…the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems. 🤔

#time #timekeeping #epoch #scifi #unixtime

Damn. It seems that I won't be able to witness 23:59:60 first hand in my lifetime after all.

"The effect of the change would be to leave clocks running without adding or subtracting any leap seconds for at least 100 years."

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/end-of-leap-seconds-2022
https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-2022.pdf/281f3160-fc56-3e63-dbf7-77b76500990f

#TimeKeeping