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* https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-inconstant-moon-6df463a3b5f5
 
* https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-inconstant-moon-6df463a3b5f5
  
== Software ==
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=== Software ===
 
* http://www.stellarium.org/
 
* http://www.stellarium.org/
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== Time ==
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* https://xkcd.com/1335/
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** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384025
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=== Time zones ===
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* http://www.iana.org/time-zones
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* http://everytimezone.com/
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=== Calendar ===
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* http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=9
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For accounting: a 5 week month = 5 weeks including a Monday
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=== Clocks ===
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* http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/19/clockmaker-john-harrison-vindicated-250-years-absurd-claims
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=== to sort ===
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* http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html
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1h = 3600s
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1d = 86400s
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1w = 604800s
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28d = 2419200s
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* http://rsnous.com/posts/2014-08-07-pinhole-a-falling-ball-demo.html
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* [http://www.askapache.com/hacking/speed-site-caching-cache-control.html#htaccess_time_cheatsheet time cheatsheet]
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http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178
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* http://www.whatsthetimethere.netai.net/msm/
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* http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/
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* http://ilyabirman.net/projects/forebruary/
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* https://snipt.net/dogstarchampion/metric-time-indicator-for-ubuntu-unity/
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* http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_calendar
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* http://pagancalendar.co.uk/
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* http://skreksto.re/products/durr
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* http://www.iers.org/nn_10398/IERS/EN/Science/EarthRotation/UT1-TAI.html?__nnn=true
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046178]
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* http://www.visualnews.com/2014/03/17/artist-spent-month-creating-digital-sundial-says-dont-throw-watch/
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* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7965317
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* http://www.moongiant.com/
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* http://procyonic.org/clocks/ [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201240]
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* http://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/index.html
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* http://www.hexahedria.com/experiments/qrclock/index.html
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=== Unix epoch ===
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while true; do echo "$(date +%s)" | figlet ; sleep 0.99 ; done
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* http://www.epochconverter.com/epoch/clock.php
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date -u -d @1400000000
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  gives datetime in UTC

Revision as of 23:44, 5 May 2015

General

See Physics#Cosmology


Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.

Earth

Moon

Software



Time

Time zones

Calendar

For accounting: a 5 week month = 5 weeks including a Monday

Clocks

to sort

1h = 3600s 1d = 86400s 1w = 604800s 28d = 2419200s

http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178



Unix epoch

while true; do echo "$(date +%s)" | figlet ; sleep 0.99 ; done
date -u -d @1400000000
  gives datetime in UTC