Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Timely Words

Daylight Saving Time ends this Nov. 4. We will get an extra hour of sleep only to lose it next spring. Remember to turn your clocks back, Saturday night before you go to sleep.

Who is in charge of the "official time in the US? It is more complicated that you might think. Both the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U..S. Naval Observatory maintain atomic clocks, and their readings help to formulate what is called the Universal Time Coordinate (UTC). The time reported by these two services is so precise that it never differs by more than 0.0000001 seconds

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