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See also:
- Countdown [ Kids-Teens-Mature Teens ] + Calculate the exact time in days, hours, minutes and seconds from now until your birthday or any other event.
- Daylight Saving Time [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Why do we use daylight savings time and who invented it?
- Discover Magazine: Time Machine [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Article explores a clock designed to keep accurate time for 10,000 years.
- The Galileo Project + Pendulum Clock [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Describes Galileo's work on pendulums and the pendulum clock.
- A History of Time [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + A two+part article that discusses physicist's evolving view of time.
- The Hourglass [ Kids-Teens ] + The University of Houston College of engineering, describes how an hourglass works and also provides interesting facts about this timekeeper.
- How Stuff Works: Time [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Complete five+part explanation of time and how it is measured, including information about clocks, time zones, and calendars.
- Industrious Clock [ Kids-Teens-Mature Teens ] + Clock using video of a hand drawing to display the time.
- International Standard Date and Time Notation [ Mature Teens ] + International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. It helps to avoid confusion caused by the many different national notations.
- Latitude and Longitude [ Mature Teens ] + Introduction to latitude and longitude, a way of calculating exactly where you are anyplace on earth and a way to tell time.
- Local Times Around the World [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.
- Make Your Own Star Clock [ Kids-Teens-Mature Teens ] + Learn how to tell time by finding constellations in the night sky.
- Making a Horizontal Sundial [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Learn how to make a sundial. Instructions are for beginners, intermediate, or advanced, and work for either the northern or southern hemispheres.
- Making a Sun Clock [ Kids-Teens ] + Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time. Learn how to make your own sun clock!
- National Geographic Kids Magazine: Water Clock Experiment [ Kids-Teens ] + Demonstrates how water clocks can be used to keep time.
- NPR : 'Seize the Daylight' [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Talks about the complicated politics and curious history of daylight standard time.
- On Time [ Kids-Teens-Mature Teens ] + Learn about the history of time measuring devices in this online Smithsonian Institute exhibit. Page discusses how the accuracy of watches and clocks affected people's perception and usage of time.
- Science Museum + Atomic Clocks [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Talks about how different types of atomic clocks work, and the history of their invention.
- Time [ Kids-Teens ] + Just how do we measure time and what has Greenwich England got to do with it?
- Time Travel [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Is time travel possible? See what Carl Sagan and Einstein had to say about time travel in this NOVA special.
- US Library of Congress + How does an hourglass measure time? [ Kids-Teens-Mature Teens ] + Answers questions about how an hourglass keeps time and what are the contributing factors determining how long an hourglass lasts.
- A Walk Through Time [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present.
- What Time Is It! [ Kids-Teens-Mature Teens ] + Gives the current time, synchronized by NIST. Close to 100 different time zones supported, as well as the ability to select the default time zone.
- When Does Daylight Savings Time Occur [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Explanation of when and why we have daylight savings time.
- World Time Converter [ Teens-Mature Teens ] + Provides online times converter and brief information about GMT-UTC.
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