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== General ==
 
* https://xkcd.com/1335/
 
** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384025
 
 
== Time zones ==
 
* http://www.iana.org/time-zones
 
* http://everytimezone.com/
 
 
== Calendar ==
 
* http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=9
 
 
For accounting: a 5 week month = 5 weeks including a Monday
 
 
== Clocks ==
 
* http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/19/clockmaker-john-harrison-vindicated-250-years-absurd-claims
 
 
== to sort ==
 
* http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html
 
 
1h = 3600s
 
1d = 86400s
 
1w = 604800s
 
28d = 2419200s
 
 
* http://rsnous.com/posts/2014-08-07-pinhole-a-falling-ball-demo.html
 
 
* [http://www.askapache.com/hacking/speed-site-caching-cache-control.html#htaccess_time_cheatsheet time cheatsheet]
 
http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178
 
 
* http://www.whatsthetimethere.netai.net/msm/
 
 
* http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/
 
 
* http://ilyabirman.net/projects/forebruary/
 
 
* https://snipt.net/dogstarchampion/metric-time-indicator-for-ubuntu-unity/
 
 
* http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/
 
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_calendar
 
 
* http://pagancalendar.co.uk/
 
 
* http://skreksto.re/products/durr
 
 
* http://www.iers.org/nn_10398/IERS/EN/Science/EarthRotation/UT1-TAI.html?__nnn=true
 
 
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046178]
 
 
 
* http://www.visualnews.com/2014/03/17/artist-spent-month-creating-digital-sundial-says-dont-throw-watch/
 
 
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7965317
 
 
* http://www.moongiant.com/
 
 
* http://procyonic.org/clocks/ [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201240]
 
 
* http://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/index.html
 
 
* http://www.hexahedria.com/experiments/qrclock/index.html
 
 
=== Unix epoch ===
 
while true; do echo "$(date +%s)" | figlet ; sleep 0.99 ; done
 
 
* http://www.epochconverter.com/epoch/clock.php
 
 
date -u -d @1400000000
 
  gives datetime in UTC
 

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