How mankind has used the sun, water, candles, sand, pendulums, springs, electronics, tuning forks, quartz crystals, etc. to tell time. Providing a quality Horological reference site for collectors and repairers alike. History of daylight saving time and how we use it to save energy. A very basic introduction to how electric clocks work, with animated pictures. Also a collection of cheap electric clocks with pictures and descriptions.
Horology is the science of time, timekeeping and timekeepers.
Organized collection of links to horological websites globally. A humorous approach towards explaining the nature of leap years, in particular why 2000 is a leap year. The Smithsonian Institute's exhibition on the changing ways we have measured, used, and thought about time over the past three hundred years. An article by Vincent Sauv elaborating upon a materialist view of the absolute and relative nature of time. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.