(NEXSTAR) — We’re just a couple of weeks away from the end of daylight saving time, the back half of a twice-a-year practice the U.S. has observed for decades. A May 2024 YouGov poll found 58% of ...

You know when you dial a number, and a man reads you the exact time at the tone? That precise timekeeping starts at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. NPR's Linda Wertheimer takes a tour. We're ...

If you want to mark the passage of time, you need something to occur with regularity, repeatedly, that you can use as your measure of keeping time. Throughout history, we've really had two options for ...

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Even a well meaning government executive like Leonard Martin, city manager of Carrollton, Texas, squanders time on the Web now and then during business hours. "I tend to get on the Internet and start ...

Football, at least the American game, is an extremely Newtonian game-- my occasional whimsical attempts to explore different rules of physics notwithstanding, more or less everything that happens on ...

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Most people probably don’t realize just how much our devices are time driven, whether it’s your phone, your laptop or a network server. For the most part, time keeping has been an esoteric chore, ...

I started keeping a diary twenty-five years ago. It’s 800,000 words long. I didn’t want to lose anything. That was my main problem. I couldn’t face the end of a day without a record of everything that ...