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  The Times of Our Lives: Investigations into Socio-chronology
our sense of connection with generations long dead and those yet to be born, including such topics as time capsules, intergenerational contracts and legacies, ancestral worship, and futuristic themes in amusement parks and cinema.
Time is the container of our social activities, especially in our monotonic culture where we have specific times for doing specific things (as opposed to more polychronic cultures, where many different things are done simultaneously).
Even though these times of our lives seem to be as "natural" as as any physical object in our social universe, the fact is that most are totally man-made notions.
www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/time.html   (996 words)

  
 Date and Time Formats
Times are expressed in local time, together with a time zone offset in hours and minutes.
A time zone offset of "+hh:mm" indicates that the date/time uses a local time zone which is "hh" hours and "mm" minutes ahead of UTC.
A time zone offset of "-hh:mm" indicates that the date/time uses a local time zone which is "hh" hours and "mm" minutes behind UTC.
www.w3.org /TR/NOTE-datetime   (692 words)

  
 Evil in Our Time
This is almost a third of the number of live babies born during the same time.
If you go to a high school graduation ceremony this year, consider that one third of the graduating class is missing.
At the time, the common practice of warfare was to rest after fighting a battle.
www.abortionessay.com /files/essay.html   (3398 words)

  
 In Our Time
SNCC was cast in the image of a young, fearless fl male, a concept that may have been necessary for its time, but its corollary was that women of both races were expected to occupy a lesser role.
During our orientation session in Memphis, we were told that Meridian needed emergency workers.
Because of the southern white male's phobia about mixing the races, our presence in the volunteer army of integrationists was construed as an added danger to the movement's fl men.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/brownmiller-time.html   (1425 words)

  
 Universal Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Times given in UT are almost always given in terms of a 24-hour clock.
Sometimes a Z is appended to a time to indicate UT, as in 0935Z.
Times which may be labeled "Universal Time" or "UT" in data provided by the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory (for example, in the annual almanacs) conform to this definition.
aa.usno.navy.mil /faq/docs/UT.html   (683 words)

  
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Abstract This document defines a date and time format for use in Internet protocols that is a profile of the ISO 8601 standard for representation of dates and times using the Gregorian calendar.
Unqualified Local Time A number of devices currently connected to the Internet run their internal clocks in local time and are unaware of UTC.
Security Considerations Since the local time zone of a site may be useful for determining a time when systems are less likely to be monitored and might be more susceptible to a security probe, some sites may wish to emit times in UTC only.
www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc3339.txt   (3273 words)

  
 Neville Chamberlain, Peace in Our Time
What we had to consider was the method, the conditions and the time of the transfer of the territory.
I say in the name of this House and of the people of this country that Czechoslovakia has earned our admiration and respect for her restraint, for her dignity, for her magnificent discipline in face of such a trial as few nations have ever been called upon to meet.
The peoples of the British Empire were at one with those of Germany, of France and of Italy, and their anxiety, their intense desire for peace, pervaded the whole atmosphere of the conference, and I believe that that, and not threats, made possible the concessions that were made.
www.wwnorton.com /college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs36.htm   (691 words)

  
 Hemingway Stories
By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over.
In the day time the street was dusty; but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.
Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada.
www.cis.vt.edu /modernworld/d/hemingway.html   (3564 words)

  
 Daylight Saving Time - Saving Time, Saving Energy
So, Daylight Saving Time saves energy for lighting in all seasons of the year except for the four darkest months of the year (November, December, January and February) when the afternoon advantage is offset by the need for lighting because of late sunrise.
Time zones were first used by the railroads in 1883 to standardize their schedules.
Fleming advocated the adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from that according to established time zones.
www.energy.ca.gov /daylightsaving.html   (2892 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: In Our Time
In Our Time is most noteworthy for its introduction of Nick Adams, a young man who shares many of his creator's characteristics and much of his background.
His final appearance in In Our Time is in the two-part story “Big Two-Hearted River,” where he fishes alone in northern Michigan, attempting to recover from the traumatic experiences of the war.
In addition to the Nick Adams stories, In Our Time deals with the war and its aftermath in three stories, with marriage in three, and with the loss of a boyhood idol in one.
www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4529   (1432 words)

  
 Daylight Savings Time - History And Explanation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although "daylight saving time" was mentioned by Benjamin Franklin in a humorous essay in 1784, the real credit for it has to be given to a little-remembered London builder, William Willett (1865-1915).
The Uniform Time Act, enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966, established a system of uniform (within each time zone) daylight saving time throughout the U.S. and its possessions, exempting only those states in which the legislatures voted to keep the entire state on standard time.
Daylight Saving Time - for the U.S. and its territories - is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona).
www.timechange.com /dls/dls1.html   (553 words)

  
 Info on ISO 8601, the date and time representation standard
Notice that there is no time zone indication, although dates too are time zone dependent in principle; by default, times are relative to some local time zone.
Thus the time of the day is given in the range from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59, and the possible leap second 23:59:60.
NOTE The abbreviated date and time is given as the combination of the date format and the time format of ISO 8601; as opposed to the combined day-and-time format of said standard, which includes a "T" between day and time.
www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/iso8601.html   (2416 words)

  
 Slavery In Our Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
If you went to public school any time in the last twenty years you can be forgiven if you think slavery is a uniquely American and Southern experience.
Whether it's protesting apartheid in South Africa or the treatment of Haitians by our Immigration laws fl Americans have been at the forefront on the issues.
Instead of a decrying Black slavery in Africa our leaders have busied themselves with the defense of young hoods in Decatur, Illinois or in counting the number of fl actors on TV.
www.rightgrrl.com /2000/slavery.html   (764 words)

  
 NIST: Time and Frequency Division - Division 847
The Time and Frequency Division, part of NIST's Physics Laboratory, maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency metrology.
Time and Frequency from A to Z: An illustrated glossary
NIST researchers are also demonstrating the potential to fabricate and assemble the physics package using the low-cost, mass-production techniques used to make semiconductor devices, which should eventually lead to a complete atomic clock about 1 cubic centimeter in size (about the size of a pencil eraser) powered by a battery.
www.boulder.nist.gov /timefreq   (322 words)

  
 Safe Haven | Peace in Our Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Perfectly timed to be absorbed into the Spanish electorate's psyche, it was designed to demonstrate the price that Spain would be forced to pay for its Iraq policy.
Europe is applying selective tariffs against the US because our tax laws are too favorable to corporations and that is "unfair." (Yes, I know it is more complicated than that, but that is the essential base of it.) Several of the prominent Democratic presidential candidates were essentially calling for one form of protectionism or another.
Our politicians (including 25 Republican senators) voted for the bill mentioned above so that they could appear to be doing something to "protect" American jobs because they are pandering to voters.
www.safehaven.com /showarticle.cfm?id=1378   (5247 words)

  
 In Our Time: Critical Reception   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Published October 5, 1925 by Boni and Liveright, In Our Time is a combination of short stories previously published in Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), sketches previously published in in our time (1924) and new material.
Times Book Review praises it for its “precision and economy,” noting that Hemingway “packs a whole character in a phrase, an entire situation in a phrase or two"(10/18/25).
Repeatedly to Hemingway's dismay, In Our Time is compared to Sherwood Anderson's work, especially between "My Old Man" and Anderson's earlier "I Want to Know Why." Meant to be complimentary, five of the eleven reviews acknowledge some indebtedness to Anderson.
www.people.vcu.edu /~bmangum/iotcr.htm   (372 words)

  
 Zugzwang - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
Our subject today is the year ahead, specifically as it relates to the imperial designs of the superpower on our doorstep.
A year after a rocket-propelled grenade landed in the Al Rasheed, once patronised by US officials and Western journalists, the hotel remains closed for security reasons; and the Al Rasheed is in the heavily fortified Green Zone, the closest thing the Occupation has to a safe house in Iraq.
When he really had a chance to put on a uniform and go someplace where the enemy was invisible and there was no exit strategy and our government was not levelling with us about how bad it was, W wasn't so high on the idea.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20041225T190000-0500_72052_OBS_ZUGZWANG.asp   (1454 words)

  
 International standard date and time notation
A single leap second 23:59:60 is inserted into the UTC time scale every few years as announced by the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris, to keep UTC from wandering away more than 0.9 s from the less constant astronomical time scale UT1, which is defined by the actual rotation of the earth.
In case an unambiguous representation of time is required, 00:00 is usually the preferred notation for midnight and not 24:00.
Please consider the 12h time to be a relic from the dark ages when Roman numerals were used, the number zero had not yet been invented and analog clocks were the only known form of displaying a time.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /%7Emgk25/iso-time.html   (2932 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Greyfriars and Blackfriars
The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds.
"I'm fascinated by the fact that we live in a time when so many people are doing fantastic work, and thinking in areas which it's not remotely possible for me to keep up with and and these people are prepared to talk about it.
But the Blackfriars and the Greyfriars did not come from the great monasteries of the time; they started out as itinerant preachers surviving upon the charity of the faithful.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml   (574 words)

  
 LEON TROTSKY: 1939 - MARXISM IN OUR TIME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The commodity has become such an all-pervasive, customary and familiar part of our daily existence that we, lulled to sleep, do not even attempt to consider why men relinquish important objects, needed to sustain life, in exchange for tiny discs of gold or silver that are of no earthly use whatever.
Nevertheless the basic error of classical economics was its view of capitalism as humanity's normal existence for all time instead of merely as one historical stage in the development of society.
The life of monopolistic capitalism in our time is a chain of crises.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1939/1939-cri.htm   (11334 words)

  
 Amazon.com: In Our Time : Memoir of a Revolution: Books: Susan Brownmiller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But as other women around the room told their stories, they resonated with something deep in Brownmiller's psyche, and when it was time to tell her own--"I've had three illegal abortions"--the ambitious reporter experienced something akin to a road-to-Damascus conversion.
Imagine a time when there was no such phrase as "sexual harassment" yet its practice went on unchecked, a time when there were no domestic violence shelters for battered women, no rape clinics for victims of sexual violence, a time when the classified ads were divided into columns for "Male" and "Female" jobs...
Brownmiller through her 1975 classic on rape, I was previously unaware to this time, the extent to which she had been involved in the feminist movement.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385318316?v=glance   (2114 words)

  
 A Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO
Greenwich Mean Time ------------------- o Greenwich Mean Time is a time scale based on the apparent motion of the "mean" sun with respect to the meridian through the Old Greenwich Observatory (zero degrees longitude).
The time scale based on the atomic second but corrected every now and again to keep it in approximate sync with the earth's rotation is known as UTC or Coordinated Universal Time.
Initially, the time scale was derived by offsetting its rate from that of Atomic Time to agree with the average rate of UT2 over the past year and was held fixed at that rate for the following year.
www.apparent-wind.com /gmt-explained.html   (1770 words)

  
 Markus Kuhn’s home page
International standard date and time notation is a brief introduction to ISO 8601.
I proposed a new Time and calendar API for the C programming language, which stimulated a lot of activity in that direction.
OTPW is my one-time password package for POSIX systems, optimized for being used with printed password lists and designed to be more robust against certain denial-of-service attacks than various older schemes.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~mgk25   (1391 words)

  
 In Our Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
If you are familiar with my other writing, you know that I never shrink from taking a controversial position.
IN OUR TIME: Memoir of Revolution is not movement hagiography, nor is it "a balanced history" written by someone with access to library archives but far removed from the actual events.
I figured there was only one way I could tell the movement's story, and that was to summon the spirit of the times, put my mind on the memory channel, and GO.
www.susanbrownmiller.com /html/in_our_time.html   (334 words)

  
 Astronomy & Telescope Astronomy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Now we know that our planet is but a minute part of a vast, constantly expanding universe that functions according to physical laws.
Ulysses, a joint mission by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) to study the Sun's environment and the solar wind, was launched in October 1990.
This was the first time a spacecraft had been deliberately sent out of the ecliptic (the plane of the Solar System).
www.lunaroutreach.org   (851 words)

  
 MANDALA – Buddhism in our Time
MANDALA is a Tibetan Buddhist Journal that captures the life and times of a vibrant organization flourishing in 31 countries.
It is published six times a year in February, April, June, August, October and December by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition.
MANDALA offers a look at the culture, practice and experiences of an international community that has a clear and practical approach to the challenges of the 21st century.
www.mandalamagazine.org   (140 words)

  
 Genocide In Our Time
Our team of four interviewers and four interpeters, at the end of our first full day of interviews at Cariari.
Our team of interviewers and interpreters at the end of the mission.
Our Norwegian and Danish hosts (Norwegian Church Aid) in Iriba.
www.chgs.umn.edu /Histories__Narratives__Documen/Genocide_In_Our_Time_Darfur_/genocide_in_our_time_darfur_.html   (529 words)

  
 
I spent a lot of time reading a Noam Chomsky book to be able to answer this question carefully and apparently there is never any time that the United States uses its power for anything other than advancing corporate interests.
I have been informed that the name of my new blog, "Peace in our time" (a sentiment I'm sure no one could disagree with unless they're from an oil company or the right wing media), supposedly has a tarnished past.
Responding to the overwhelming show of support for peace demonstrated worldwide by peacefully nonviolent demonstrators declaring "Peace in our time," "No blood for oil," and "Cowboy Bush needs to yank Dick's Chain-y," a really important breakthrough has been made in the global quest for peace.
peaceinourtime.blogspot.com   (1355 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time
Mp3 download: for a trial period you can download the latest edition of In Our Time as an mp3 file.
Go to our new archive home page for more information.
Play our challenging quiz and see how much you remember from the last series.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/inourtime   (185 words)

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