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Title: Time


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Time
  • Michelle Houck
  • April 28, 2008, 415pm EST

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What is time?
  • Standard by which we measure
  • One of the fundamental units of physics
  • Broken into seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
    months, years, decades, centuries, etc.

3
What is a second?
  • 1 second the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods
    of the radiation corresponding to the transition
    between the two hyperfine levels of the ground
    state of the caesium 133 atom

4
Mean Solar Time
  • We use the angle of the sun to tell time
  • 1 rotation of the Earth is one day, broken into
    24 hours
  • Abbreviated UT1

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Greenwich Mean Time
  • Based at Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London
  • Mean solar time uses the angle of the sun to
    declare time, 1 rotation of the Earth 24 hours
  • Prime Meridian, all world times are based on this
    time
  • Locations east are hours and locations west are
    hours from GMT

6
Time Zones
  • Divisions of Earth with hourly displacements from
    GMT
  • Could divide the earth into 24 equally sized
    wedges, but political and geographical boundaries
    make some time zones irregular.

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Daylight Savings Time
  • Some time zones will move an hour ahead or an
    hour back twice a year to allow for the hours of
    sunlight to be at the most convenient part of the
    day

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Coordinated Universal Time
  • Abbreviated UTC
  • Very precise time standard kept using the average
    of 300 atomic clocks around the world

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Leap Year and Leap Second
  • To adjust for slight differences in the solar
    time and standard time, we periodically add to
    our time.
  • Once every 4 years we add one day (February 29)
    to the year
  • When The difference between UTC and UT1 becomes
    greater than 0.6s, a leap second is announced,
    then either at the end of June or the end of
    December, one second is added between 235959
    and 000000 of the next day

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How does my computer know what time it is?
  • The computer has an internal battery so it can
    keep track of time even when its turned off
  • If you have a continuous internet connection, the
    computer will automatically synchronize with an
    internet time server regularly
  • You can force the computer to synchronize with a
    time server
  • Can also set the computer to automatically adjust
    for daylight savings time, and other similar
    changes

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What time is it?
  • http//www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java
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