Web Resources
About Time, Clocks, & Watches
- Clocks and Watches Library
- How clocks, digital clocks, quartz watches, and clock pendulums work. From How Stuff Works.
- Daylight Saving Time
- "Learn about the history of daylight saving ..., the standardization of time, and when regions around the globe spring ahead and fall back." From the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement.
- Daylight Saving Time
- PDF on DST from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). 15 pages.
- How Time Works
- Includes time zones, Daylight-saving Time. From How Stuff Works. See also their article: How Time Travel Works.
- On Time: How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock
- From the National Museum of American History.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Time
- Article concerning philosophical aspects of time. See also these links: The Experience and Perception of Time, Time Machines, more articles.
- A Walk Through Time
- From the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Time Zones of the World
- Official U.S. Time (Time.gov)
- Guide to time zones accurate to within one second. This is a "live" clock displaying date and ticking military time. It also shows the daylight/dark division. Non-Java users should try this link.
- Time Measurement, Time Zones, and the International Date Line
- From Infoplease.com.
- Timeanddate.com
- Find the time and date anywhere in the world. Create a calendar from the past or future. Select a continent and city and get details of the city's dialing codes and sunrise times.
- WorldTimeServer
- Includes Current Local Time; Time Zone Converter; World Clock; Meeting Planner and World Time Database.
- World Time Zone
- Select a country name or region. Gives the current day of the week, current time, and the difference in hours + or - Greenwich Mean Time.
