Posts tagged ‘time’
How time actually tricks us
Time is truly a complicated matter. Remember how as a child you were waiting for your birthday and how it seemed to […]
04/12/2016. Category: info. Tags: time
The most famous watches and clocks in history
We all need to tell the time – but some watches and clocks have gone down in history as devices or monuments […]
04/01/2015. Category: technology. Tags: clocks, smartwatch, time
The Third Millennium
The third millennium started at about 21h00 on 31 December 2000. Basically, the year 2000 is celebrated one year earlier because the […]
02/07/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: calendar, millennium, time
History of the calendar
In September 1752 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies. The Julian calendar […]
02/04/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: calendar, gregorian, time
Oldest clock in the world
The Sumerians of Mesopotamia, who is thought to have invented writing in the 4th century BC, based their numerical system on powers […]
08/28/2009. Category: technology. Tags: clocks, oldest, time, utc
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