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- A Walk Through Time - An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present.
physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html
- Clocks - Kids Almanac explains mechanical and electric clocks, and discusses some famous clocks like London's Big Ben.
kids.infoplease.lycos.com/ce6/sci/A0812596.html
- Countdown - Calculate the exact time in days, hours, minutes and seconds from now until your birthday or any other event.
www.spiders.com/countdown
- Daylight Saving Time - Why do we use daylight savings time and who invented it?
www.mrdowling.com/601-daylight.html
- International Standard Date and Time Notation - International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. It helps to avoid confusion caused by the many different national notations.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
- Latitude and Longitude - Introduction to latitude and longitude, a way of calculating exactly where you are anyplace on earth and a way to tell time.
www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm
- Local Times Around the World - Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.
www.hilink.com.au/times
- Make Your Own Star Clock - Learn how to tell time by finding constellations in the night sky.
www.lhs.berkeley.edu/StarClock/starclockprintout.html
- Making a Horizontal Sundial - Learn how to make a sundial. Instructions are for beginners, intermediate, or advanced, and work for either the northern or southern hemispheres.
www.lmsal.com/YPOP/Classroom/Lessons/Sundials/sundials.html
- Making a Sun Clock - Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time. Learn how to make your own sun clock!
www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/sunclock.html
- Time - Learn about time and how it is measured, a little about the psychology of time, time and relativity, and a little about biorhythms.
kids.infoplease.lycos.com/ce6/sci/A0848767.html
- Time - Just how do we measure time and what has Greenwich England got to do with it?
www.mrdowling.com/601-time.html
- Time Travel - Is time travel possible? See what Carl Sagan and Einstein had to say about time travel in this NOVA special.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time
- Timekeepers.org - The history of the western calendar and the clock, including the Gregorian and Julian Calendar. Also includes legends about month and day names, poetry, and star time.
www.timekeepers.org
- Top International Time Checker - Provides online times converter and brief information about GMT/UTC.
www.top-education.com/top_time/top%20time.htm
- What Time is it! - Gives the current time, syncronized by NIST. Close to 100 different time zones supported, as well as the ability to select the default time zone.
www.whattimeisit.com
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