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clock stories: 5 news summaries

Time Will Stand Still at Midnight New Year's Eve

Timekeepers make 2008 a second longer to compensate for Earth's wonky rotation

Dec 27, 08 7:05 AM CST
(Newser) - The last minute of the last hour of the last day of 2008 is getting an extension, LiveScience reports. The world's timekeepers are tacking an extra "leap second" onto the end of the year to allow super-accurate clocks to get back in synch with the planet's irregular but gradually... More »

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clock • time • atomic clock • New Year's Eve

 New Clock Messes With Time 


Sep 20, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Here's something different in a timepiece: It has no hands. It's actually designed to run in erratic fashion, slowing down and speeding up from time to time. It aims to disorient and dazzle, to remind people of their mortality and to pay tribute to one of the most famous watchmakers... More »

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Stephen Hawking • Cambridge • clock • John Taylor • Corpus clock

Über-Precise Atomic Clocks Are Half-Past a Revolution

Smaller, cheaper, and mysterious

Dec 13, 07 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Forget the Swiss—the world's best clocks sit in a Colorado lab where a team of scientists is shaping them into über-precise gadgets with broad-reaching implications on medicine, navigation, and surveillance. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has built a clock the size of a grain of rice... More »

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physics • clock • National Institute of Standards and Technology • atomic clock • magnetic field

Spring Ahead, Fall Back; Repeat

Some may have changed clocks a week early

Oct 30, 07 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spring ahead, fall back. And fall back again, for many whose clocks wrongly reset themselves last weekend—1 week ahead of the schedule Congress set when it extended Daylight Saving Time. Most cell phones and computers, which get time and date information from networks, weren't affected, but many alarm clocks... More »

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Congress • cell phones • BlackBerry • clock • time • Halloween • Daylight Saving Time • Palm Pilot • computer

Big Ben Silenced for Repairs 

Big Ben silenced for repairs, won't tell the time either

Aug 11, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world’s most famous clock chimed its last tones of August at 8 AM this morning, and its hands were set to 12:00. Though it will soon tell time again, Big Ben will be silent for at least a month as it undergoes maintenance, the Guardian reports. This... More »

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London • England • Big Ben • clock • repair

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