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Definition: Time |
TimeNoun1. An instance or single occasion for some event; "This time he succeeded"; "He called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip". 2. An indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time". 3. A period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time". 4. A suitable moment; "it is time to go". 5. The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past. 6. The time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock". 7. The fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event. 8. A person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears" or "they had a good time together". 9. Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time. 10. : the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail". Verb1. Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners". 2. Assign a time for an activity or event. 3. Set the speed, duration, or execution of. 4. Regulate or set the time of, as of a clock or watch. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "time" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Time \Time\, noun; plural Times. [Old English time, Anglo-Saxon t[=i]ma, akin to t[=i]d time, and to Icelandic t[=i]mi, Danish time an hour, Swedish timme. See Tide, noun]. (references) |
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Aerospace | The hour of the day reckoned by the position of a celestial reference point relative to a reference celestial meridian. Time may be designated solar, lunar , or sidereal as the reference is the sun, moon, or vernal equinox, respectively. Solar time may be further classified as mean or astronomical if the mean sun is the reference, or as apparent if the apparent sun is the reference. Time may also be designated according to the reference meridian, either the local or Greenwich meridian or, additionally, in the case of mean solar time, a designated zone meridian. Standard and daylight saving time are variations of zone time. Time may also be designated according to the timepiece, as chronometer time or watch time , the time indicated by these instruments.Symbol t or t. (references) |
Biographical Satire | TIME, Father, a very old man who has been introduced to everybody. Very unpopular with the ladies. A great wound and sorrow healer, but unkind to the old. He went about the world changing babies into men and women, and placing gray hair and wrinkles where they were never wanted. Author: Of tears. Recreation: Reaping. Address: Your home. Epitaph: Ad Finem. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Fine Arts | Exposure tables. Tables listing all the factors which affect the exposure. These are: the weather; the subject; the -- (of the day and the year). . Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Period during which the flowers open and pollination of the vines occurs. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Orders of magnitude (time)
Powers of 103
secondsequal to... common units orders of magnitude 1 attosecond 10-21 s -- 1 as, 10 as, 100 as 1 femtosecond 10-15 s -- 1 fs, 10 fs, 100 fs 1 picosecond 10-12 s -- 1 ps, 10 ps, 100 ps 1 nanosecond 10-9 s -- 1 ns, 10 ns, 100 ns 1 microsecond 10-6 s -- 1 µs, 10 µs, 100 µs 1 millisecond 10-3 s -- 1 ms, 10 ms, 100 ms 1 second 1 s minute = 60 s 1 s, 10 s, 100 s 1000 seconds 16.7 minutes hour = 3600 s
day = 86 400 s103 s , 104 s , 105 s 1 million seconds 11.6 days month = 2.6 x 106 s
year = 31.6 x 106 s106 s , 107 s , 108 s 1000 million seconds 32 years century = 3.16 x 109 s 109 s , 1010 s , 1011 s 1012 seconds 32 000 years -- 1012 s , 1013 s , 1014 s 1015 seconds 32 million years -- 1015 s , 1016 s , 1017 s 1018 seconds 32 billion years -- 1018 s , 1019 s and more
Orders of magnitude of other quantities: length, area, volume, mass
- The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of times that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand (3 orders of magnitude)
- See also SI, SI prefixes, SI base units, units, time, orders of magnitude
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For the American news magazine see TIME.
One can say that one event occurs after another event. Furthermore one can measure how much one event occurs after another. The answer to how much is the amount of time between the those two events. One way of defining the idea of 'after' is based on the assumption of causality. The work humanity has done to increasingly understand the nature and measurement of time, through the work of making and improving calendars and clocks, has been a major engine of scientific discovery.
The standard unit for time is the SI second, from which larger units are defined like the minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, and century. Time can be measured, just like other physical dimensions. Measuring devices for time are clocks. Very accurate clocks are often called chronometers. The best available clocks are atomic clocks.
There are several continuous time scales in current use: Universal Time, International Atomic Time (TAI), which is the basis for other time scales, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is the standard for civil time, Terrestrial Time (TT), etc. Mankind has invented calendars to track the passages of days, weeks, months, and years.
Time in engineering and applied physics
In physics, time is defined as the distance between events along the fourth axis of the spacetime manifold. Special relativity showed that time cannot be understood except as part of spacetime, a combination of space and time. The distance between events now depends on the relative speed of the observers of the events. General relativity further changed the notion of time by introducing the idea of curved spacetime. An important unit of time in theoretical physics is the Planck time – see Planck units for more details.See also: Synchronization, ISO 8601, Allan variance
Time in philosophy and theoretical physics
Important questions in the philosophy of time include: Is time absolute or merely relational? Is time without change conceptually impossible or is there more to the idea? Does time "pass" or are the ideas of past, present and future entirely subjective, descriptions only of our deception by the senses?
Zeno's paradoxes fundamentally challenged the ancient conception of time, and thereby helped motivate the development of the calculus. A point of contention between Newton and Leibniz concerned the question of absolute time: the former believed time was, like space, a container for events, while the latter believed time was, like space, a conceptual apparatus describing the interrelations between events. McTaggart believed, rather eccentrically and on the basis of a very shaky argument, that time and change are illusions. Parmenides (of whom Zeno was a follower) held a similar belief based on a similarly shaky, but rather more interesting argument.
Einstein's theory of relativity linked time and space into spacetime in a way that also had philosophical consequences, making the idea of block time more credible, and thus affecting ideas of free will and causality.
The engineer J. W. Dunne developed a theory of time whereby he considered our perception of time like notes being played on piano. Having had a number of prescient dreams, he monitored his dreams and found that they generally included as many past as future events. From this he concluded that in dreams we escape linear time. He published his ideas in An Experiment with Time in 1927 and followed this with other books.
Perception of time
One may perceive time to go fast ("time flies"), meaning that a duration seems less than it is;this may be considered an advantage:
it may be considered a disadvantage:
- in the case of something of fixed duration which is relatively unpleasant, which may be e.g.:
- work (perhaps not as pleasant as leisure time, but done for the money)
- travel (if not done for its own sake, but to get somewhere)
- waiting, boredom
(on the other hand, that the time has flown is considered a sign that it has been enjoyable)
- in the case of something of fixed duration which is relatively pleasant, which may be e.g.:
- leisure time, holidays
Time also seems to go fast when sleeping, some of the above applies, e.g. it may be an advantage to sleep as train or car passenger, and sleep long in the case of boredom, while it may be wasteful to sleep long on holidays.
- if one has a lot to do
- on a larger time scale, "getting old quickly"
See also
- Time scales: astronomical year numbering, British Summer Time, calendar, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), daylight saving time, ephemeris time, geologic timescale, Greenwich Mean Time, International Atomic Time (TAI), metric time, sidereal time, solar time, standard time and frequency signal service, Terrestrial Time, time zone, Universal Time
- Measuring instruments-- chronometer, clock, atomic clock, pendulum clock, quartz clock, watch, sundial, horology
- Units-- second, minute, hour, day, month, year
- Dating techniques-- radiometric dating, radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology
- Periods of time-- week, quarter, century, millennium, period, era, epoch, season, attack time, exponential time, response time, seek time, watch, half-life, periodization, list of time periods, also: timespan, duration, eternity
- History-- A Brief History of Time, intellectual history of time, timeline of time measurement technology
- also-- block time, Network Time Protocol, philosophy of physics, real-time, spacetime, The Time Machine, time and frequency transfer, time code, time domain, time machine, Time Magazine, time management, time travel, time-sharing , the age of the Earth, orders of magnitude (time), eternity, time capsule
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How to say times in English
See also: how to say datess in English.
- Ask the time : What time is it? and What is the time?.
- Answer: It is and the part of the hour or the minutes, seconds: It is five o'clock.
- Parts of the day:
- morning: in the morning
- afternoon: in the afternoon
- evening: in the evening
- night: at night
- Halves:
- AM
- PM
- Parts of the hour
- O'clock e.g. : It is one o'clock (1:00).
- Past and to:
- It is 4 minutes past 5 (5:04) (or 4 minutes after 5 in USA).
- It is 20 to 5 (4:40) (or 20 before 5 in USA).
- Quarter:
- A quarter past. E.g.: It is a quarter past 9 (9:15) (or a quarter after 9 in USA).
- A quarter to. E.g. : It is a quarter to 12 (11:45) (or a quarter before 12 in USA).
- Half past. E.g.: It is half past 9 (9:30).
- Answer to when? :
- Certain time: At. E.g.: At 5 p.m..
- Proximity:
- Nearly, about : It is about 10 o'clock.
- Just after: It is just after 10 (a few minutes past 10).
Books
Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time. By Peter Galison. W.W. Norton; 256 pages; $23.95. Sceptre; £16.99
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Time."
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(Clockwise from upper left) TIME magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003.TIME is a weekly American news magazine, roughly similar to Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report. A European edition (TIMEeurope, formerly known as TIMEatlantic) is produced out of London covering the Middle East, Africa and (from 2003) Latin America, while an Asian edition (TIMEasia) is based in Hong Kong.
TIME hit newsstands for the first time on March 2, 1923, preceding both of its major competitors and virtually inventing the weekly news magazine. It was co-founded in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. Hadden died in 1929, and Luce became the dominant man at TIME and a major figure in the history of 20th century media. Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce and saw TIME as something important but also fun. That accounts for its tone, which many people still criticize as too light for serious news and more suited to its heavy coverage of celebrities (including politicians), the entertainment industry, and pop culture.
TIME has always had its own writing style, parodied by Wolcott Gibbs this way (long before the Jedi master Yoda was created): "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. Where it would end, knows God."
TIME became part of Time Warner in 1989 when Warner Communications and Time, Inc. merged. Since 2000, the magazine has been part of AOL Time Warner, which was subsequently renamed back to Time Warner in 2003.
The magazine's most famous feature over its 80 years has been the annual Man of the Year — recently renamed Person of the Year — contest, in which TIME recognizes the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news. Despite the title, the recipient is not necessarily a human. In the past, even ideas and machines have received the honor.
External links
- TIME.com
- TIMEeurope.com
- TIMEasia.com
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The time signature is used in Western musical notation to specify the basic meter of a piece of music. Time signatures are written similarly to a fraction eg. 4/4 -- but is not, and is never written as such on a staff. In "simple" time signatures, the denominator indicates which note is the beat, that is, which note is to be stressed. If the denominator is 2, the half note or minim is one beat; if the denominator is 4, the quarter note or crotchet is one beat; and so on. The "numerator", the upper number indicates the number of beats in each measure. Examples of simple time signatures include "4/4" ("common time"), "2/2" ("cut time"), "3/4", "5/4", "2/4", and so on.Time signatures where the number above is a multiple of three (excluding the number 3 itself) are often "compound" time signatures. In a compound signature, the lower number does not specify which note is the beat. Instead, each beat is divided into three sub-beats, and the denominator of the time signature determines what sort of note makes up a sub-beat. In "6/8" time, the sub-beats are eighth notes, and three of them make up a single beat. This means that the beat is a dotted-quarter note, and there are two beats in a measure. Other examples of compound time signatures include "9/8", "6/16", and so on. It is not uncommon for listeners to confuse a 3/4 (simple) time signature with a 6/8 (compound) signature, if the former is played rapidly, or the latter is played slowly.
Pieces with two beats to the bar, such as 2/4 or 6/8, are said to be in duple meter. Similarly, music with three beats to the bar (such as 3/2 or 9/8) is in triple meter. Music with four beats to the bar is in quadruple meter, five beats is quintuple meter and seven is septuple meter. These names can be combined with the simple and compound terms, so that 3/4 time can be described as simple triple, 6/8 as compound duple and so on.
Time signatures can be much more complex than notating the stressed beats in a bar. The signature
means that the first of a group of three quavers (eighth notes) is to be stressed, then the first of a group of two, then first of a group of three again. The stress pattern is usually counted as one-two-three-one-two-one-two-three, italics indicating stresses. This kind of time signature is common in folk and non-Western types of music.
In modern Western Music, in styles such as serialism and minimalism, the time signature is often avoided entirely, or, the key signature as well might be omitted. An underlying time signature or key may be present, but it may be too notationally complex or too redundant to notate these details. In other cultures, time is maintained not by a defined notation, but by a drum or other percussion instrument. Examples of this can be found in Indian classical music (see Indian music) and gamelan music, both of which often rely on oral tradition to pass down popular songs, rather than notation, as in Western classical music (see Western music).
Some standard time signatures in Western music are
Other meters are sometimes encountered as well. Dave Brubeck in particular made use of unusual time signatures in his music.
- 4/4 or C -- common time
- 1/1 -- used very rarely, several times by Edward Elgar in several of his studies.
- 2/2 or ¢ -- cut time, used for marches
- 4/2 -- alla breve
- 2/4 -- used for polkas or marches
- 3/4 -- used for waltzes, minuets and scherzi
- 6/8 -- used for fast waltzes or marches
- 5/4 -- used for Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" and the original versions of the theme from Mission: Impossible1. It is also used in classical music by Gustav Holst in "Mars" from The Planets. 5/4 is usually grouped as 3+2 or 2+3.
- 7/4 -- used for "Money" by Pink Floyd, numerous Genesis songs and "The Unsquare Dance" by Dave Brubeck.
1 The theme songs from the M:I feature films (1996 and 2000) use 4/4 by repeating the first three beats of the bass line twice, holding melody notes during that period, and halving each note's duration.
- See also: Musical notation
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Time zones are areas of the Earth that follow the same definition of time. Formerly, people used apparent solar time, resulting in the time differing slightly from town to town. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region to the same mean solar time. Time zones are generally centered on meridians of a longitude that is a multiple of 15º however as the map below shows, the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because of boundaries of countries.All time zones are defined relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The reference point for Time Zones is the Prime Meridian (longitude 000) which passes through inside the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, London, England [1]. The reference time was originally called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), but is now referred to as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to distinguish it from the local time in London which may be adjusted for daylight saving time.
The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
Where the adjustment for time zones results in a time after 12midnight, then the date at the location is one day later. Some examples:
- Los Angeles, California, USA: UTC-8 (e.g. if it is 12noon UTC, then it is 4am in Los Angeles)
- New York, New York, USA: UTC-5 (e.g. if it is 11am UTC, then it is 6am in New York)
- Stockholm, Sweden: UTC+1 (e.g. if it is 12noon UTC, then it is 1pm in Stockholm)
- Mumbai, India: UTC+5.5 (e.g. if it is 1pm UTC, then it is 5:30pm in New Dehli)
- Tokyo, Japan: UTC+9 (e.g. if it is 11am UTC, then it is 8pm in Tokyo)
Where the adjustment for time zones results in a time before 00:00 (i.e. midnight), then the date at the location is one day earlier. Some examples:
- Cairo, Egypt: UTC+2 (e.g. if it is 11pm UTC on Monday 15 March, then the time in Cairo is 1 am, Tuesday 16 March)
- Auckland, New Zealand: UTC+12 (e.g. if it is 9pm UTC on Wednesday 30 June, then the time in Auckland is 9 am, Thursday 1 July)
Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of daylight saving time.
- Buenos Aires, Argentina: UTC-4 (e.g. if it is 3am UTC on Saturday 23 July, then the time in Buenos Aires is 11 pm, Friday 22 July)
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: UTC-10 (e.g. if it is 6am UTC on Monday 1 May, then the time in Honolulu is 8 pm, Sunday 30 April)
Time zones were invented by Sanford Fleming because of the need of railroad companies to have consistent local times between railroad stations. [1] On November 18, 1883, railroads in the United States and Canada became the first to institute time zones when they established four standard continental time zones in North America. This ended a great deal of confusion created by previously having thousands of local times. Worldwide adoption of time zones followed the next year.
- e.g. New Zealand which is usually UTC+12, observes a one hour daylight saving time adjustment during the southern hemisphere summer resulting in a local time of UTC+13!
See also: Sidereal time Calculating local time
A map of the world's time zones, Larger image
List of time zones and contained areas
Regions with * observe Daylight Saving Time: add 1 hour in summer.Note that some regions differ 24 hours in time: they have the same time of the day but differ a full day. The two extreme time zones even differ 25 hours, hence during one hour a day the date differs 2 days.
UTC-11 (BEST - Bering Standard Time)
- American Samoa
- Midway Islands
- Niue
- Samoa
UTC-10 (HST - Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time)
- French Polynesia (Society Archipelago including Tahiti, Tuamotu Archipelago, Tubuai Islands)
- Johnston Atoll
- United States (Hawaii)
- United States (Aleutian Islands of Alaska)*
UTC-9:30
- French Polynesia (Marquesas Islands)
UTC-9 (AKST - Alaska Standard Time)
- French Polynesia (Gambier Islands)
- United States (Alaska*)
UTC-8 (PST - Pacific Standard Time)
- Canada (British Columbia*, Yukon*)
- Mexico (Baja California Norte*)
- United States (California*, Idaho (northern)*, Nevada*, Oregon (except Malheur County)*, Washington*
UTC-7 (MST - Mountain Standard Time)
- Canada (Alberta*, Northwest Territories*, Nunavut (Mountain)*)
- Mexico (Baja California Sur*, Chihuahua*, Nayarit*, Sinaloa*, Sonora)
- United States (Arizona (Navajo Nation does observe DST), Colorado*, Idaho (southern)*, Montana*, Nebraska (western)*, New Mexico*, North Dakota (western)*, Oregon (Malheur County)* South Dakota (western)*, Utah*, Wyoming*)
UTC-6 (CST - Central Standard Time)
- Belize
- Canada (Manitoba*, Nunavut (Southampton Island), Nunavut (Central)*, Ontario (Western)*, Saskatchewan)
- Chile (Easter Island)
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico* (all other states not already mentioned, plus Distrito Federal)
- Nicaragua
- United States (Alabama*, Arkansas*, Illinois*, Indiana* (northwest and southwest), Iowa*, Kansas*, Kentucky (western)*, Louisiana*, Minnesota*, Mississippi*, Missouri*, Nebraska (eastern)*, North Dakota*, Oklahoma*, South Dakota (eastern)*, Tennessee (middle and western)*, Texas*, Wisconsin*)
UTC-5 (EST - Eastern Standard Time)
- Brazil (Acre)
- Canada (Nunavut (Eastern)*, Ontario*, Quebec*)
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Cuba*
- Ecuador
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Panama
- Peru
- Turks and Caicos Islands*
- United States (Connecticut*, Delaware*, District of Columbia*, Florida*, Georgia*, Indiana (most of state), Kentucky (eastern and central)*, Maine*, Maryland*, Massachusetts*, Michigan*, New Hampshire*, New Jersey*, New York*, North Carolina*, Ohio*, Pennsylvania*, Rhode Island*, South Carolina*, Tennessee (eastern)*, Vermont*, Virginia*, West Virginia*)
UTC-4 (AST - Atlantic Standard Time)
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Barbados
- Bolivia
- Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso*, Mato Grosso do Sul*, Para (western), Rondonia, Roraima)
- Canada (Labrador*, New Brunswick*, Nova Scotia*, Prince Edward Island*)
- Chile*
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Falkland Islands*
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guyana
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Netherlands Antilles
- Paraguay*
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands
UTC-3:30 (NST - Newfoundland Standard Time)
- Canada (Newfoundland*)
UTC-3
- Argentina
- Bahamas*
- Brazil (Alagoas, Amapa, Bahia*, Ceara, Distrito Federal*, Espirito Santo*, Goias*, Maranhao, Minas Gerais*, Para (eastern), Paraiba, Parana*, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro*, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul*, Santa Catarina*, Sao Paulo*, Sergipe, Tocantins*)
- French Guiana*
- Greenland
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon*
- Suriname
- Uruguay
UTC-2
- Bermuda*
- Brazil (Fernando de Noronha)
UTC-1
- Cape Verde
- Portugal (Azores*)
UTC (WET - Western European Time, also called GMT)
- Burkina Faso
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Faroe Islands*
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Iceland
- Ireland*
- Liberia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Portugal*
- Saint Helena
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Spain* (Canary Islands)
- Togo
- United Kingdom*
UTC+1 (CET - Central European Time, also called MET - Middle European Time)
- Albania*
- Andorra*
- Angola
- Austria*
- Belgium*
- Benin
- Bosnia and Herzegovina*
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo, Republic of the
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Kinshasa, Bandungu, Bas-Zaire, Equateur)
- Croatia*
- Czech Republic*
- Denmark*
- Equatorial Guinea
- Republic of Macedonia*
- France*
- Gabon
- Germany*
- Gibraltar*
- Hungary*
- Italy*
- Liechtenstein*
- Luxembourg*
- Malta*
- Monaco*
- Montenegro*
- Namibia*
- Netherlands*
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway*
- Poland*
- San Marino*
- Serbia*
- Slovakia*
- Slovenia*
- Spain*
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen*
- Sweden*
- Switzerland*
- Tunisia
UTC+2 (EET - Eastern European Time)
- Belarus*
- Botswana
- Bulgaria*
- Burundi
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Kasai Occidental, Kasai Oriental, Haut-Zaire, Shaba)
- Cyprus*
- Egypt*
- Estonia*
- Finland*
- Gaza Strip*
- Greece*
- Israel*
- Jordan
- Latvia*
- Lebanon*
- Lesotho
- Libya
- Lithuania*
- Malawi
- Moldova*
- Mozambique
- Romania*
- Russia (Zone 1*, including Kalingrad)
- Rwanda
- South Africa
- Swaziland
- Syria*
- Turkey*
- Ukraine*
- West Bank*
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
UTC+3 (MSK - Moscow Time)
- Bahrain
- Comoros
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Iraq*
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Madagascar
- Mayotte
- Qatar
- Russia (Zone 2*, including Moscow and St. Petersburg; this time zone applies also for railways throughout Russia)
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Yemen
UTC+3:30
- Iran*
UTC+4
- Georgia*
- Kazakhstan (Western)*
- Mauritius
- Oman
- Reunion
- Russia (Zone 3*)
- Seychelles
- United Arab Emirates
UTC+4:30
- Afghanistan
UTC+5
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan*
- Kazakhstan (Central)*
- Kyrgyzstan*
- Maldives
- Pakistan
- Russia (Zone 4*, including Ekaterinburg and Perm)
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
UTC+5:30
- India
UTC+5:45
- Nepal
UTC+6
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Kazakhstan (Eastern)*
- Russia (Zone 5*, including Novosibirsk and Omsk)
- Sri Lanka
UTC+6:30
- Cocos Islands
- Myanmar
UTC+7
- Cambodia
- Christmas Island (Australia)
- Indonesia (Western)
- Laos
- Russia (Zone 6*)
- Thailand
- Vietnam
UTC+8 (AWST - Australian Western Standard Time)
Note that the whole of China has the same time, which makes this time zone exceptionally wide. In the extreme west of China the sun is at its highest at 3 pm, in the extreme east at 11 am.
- Australia (Western Australia)
- Brunei
- Mainland China
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia (Central)
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Philippines
- Russia (Zone 7*)
- Singapore
- Taiwan
UTC+9
- East Timor
- Indonesia (Eastern)
- Japan (JST - Japan Standard Time)
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Palau
- Russia (Zone 8*, including Yakutsk)
UTC+9:30 (ACST - Australian Central Standard Time)
- Australia (Broken Hill, NSW; Northern Territory; South Australia*)
UTC+10 (AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time)
- Australia (Australian Capital Territory*, New South Wales* (except Broken Hill, which observes South Australia time), Queensland, Victoria*, Tasmania*)
- Cook Islands
- Guam
- Federated States of Micronesia (Yap and Chuuk)
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Papua New Guinea
- Russia (Zone 9*, including Vladivostok)
UTC+10:30
- Australia (Lord Howe Island*)(DST only 0:30)
UTC+11
- Federated States of Micronesia (Kosrae and Pohnpei)
- New Caledonia
- Russia (Zone 10*)
- Solomon Islands
- Vanuatu
UTC+11:30
- Norfolk Island
UTC+12
- Fiji*
- Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)
- Marshall Islands
- Nauru
- New Zealand (Aotearoa)*
- Russia (Zone 11*)
- Tuvalu
- Wake Island
- Wallis and Futuna
UTC+12:45
- New Zealand (Aotearoa) (Chatham Islands*)
UTC+13
- Kiribati (Phoenix Islands)
- Tonga
UTC+14
- Kiribati (Line Islands)
External links
- World Time Server
- A Solution for Managing Time Zones, and Dates in International Internet Systems
- The tz database provides specific information on the beginning and ending dates of daylight saving time for each zone and tracks time zones over the years.
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Time is a village located in Pike County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 29.Geography
Time is located at 39°33'40" North, 90°43'23" West (39.561160, -90.722947)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²). 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 29 people, 13 households, and 7 families residing in the village. The population density is 25.4/km² (66.5/mi²). There are 14 housing units at an average density of 12.3/km² (32.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 13 households out of which 23.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% are married couples living together, 15.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 38.5% are non-families. 30.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 23.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.23 and the average family size is 2.75. In the village the population is spread out with 10.3% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 34.5% from 45 to 64, and 20.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 46 years. For every 100 females there are 93.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 85.7 males. The median income for a household in the village is $14,375, and the median income for a family is $33,750. Males have a median income of $38,750 versus $13,750 for females. The per capita income for the village is $12,253. 5.3% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Time, Illinois."
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The municipality Time in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 13,593 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002.
The centre of Time is the town of Bryne. The town's football team, Bryne F.K, plays in the Norwegian premier league (2003).
External links
- Municipality web site
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Time, Norway."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TIME | English | Top Industrial Managers for Europe | Economics |
| DTD time | English | Door to door time | N/A |
| TIC | English | Time intensity curve | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TimeSynonyms: clip (n), clock time (n), fourth dimension (n), meter (n), prison term (n), sentence (n), clock (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instantaneity | Epoch, time; time of day, time of night; hour, minute; very minute; very time, very hour; present time, right time, true time, exact correct time. |
Leisure | Noun: leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands; holiday, relaxation; (rest); otium cum dignitate, ease. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Time |
| Non-English Usage: "Time" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (my), Danish (hour, time), Finnish (timely), Latin (be afraid, dread, fear), Norwegian (hour, o'clock, time), Pidgin English (time), Portuguese (team), Serbo-Croatian (thereby), Tagalog (time). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Why you gotta chase after girls all the time, Gabe (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden) Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Honey, I watched you the whole time, and you didn't screw up once (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I would if it didn't give me a shock every time I come near it (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) It seems that every time we meet, I have nothing but bad news (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) | |
Lyrics | Give me time to think it through (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua) I know it's time (Isn't It Time; performing artist: Babys) I like that old time rock n' roll ("Old Time Rock & Roll"; performing artist: Bob Seger) Time after (Time After Time; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper) We were just wasting time (Stay (Wasting Time); performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) | |
Clever | I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. (references; author: Bob Hope) Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. (references; author: Mark Twain) Steals Clock, Faces Time (references; author: unknown) Save time; see it my way. (references; author: unknown) I make a rhyme every time. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Power Rangers Time Force (2001) Time Will Tell (1992) Running Time (2002) Time Enough (1997) Out of Time (2003) | |
Song Titles | Stage Diver's Lament in 3/4 Time (performing artist: John Black) Feels Like The First Time (performing artist: Foreigner) Now's The Time To Touch A Star (performing artist: Karl Franzen) Never A Time (performing artist: Genesis) Praying For Time (performing artist: George Michael) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Seen are a technician's hands performing a lab test. The test tube with some frozen breast tissue and some liquid are visible, as well as the techician in some slides. This is the estrogen receptor assay being performed at the time of mastectomy. Results suggest whether removal of ovaries or use of antiestrogen drugs are likely to be effective therapy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | The HHV-6, or the human herpes virus-6, was thought to infect b-cells and was at one time called HBLV, human b-lymphotropic virus. It is now known to infect t-cells as well. The HHV-6 is a double stranded DNA virus of the herpes family. The virus particles shown here have matured and are then released from the lymphocyte which has been infected. The "owl's eye" appearance of the virus particles is characteristic of the herpes family. Credit: Bernard Kramarsky (photographer). |
 | 33 year old white male who died of inhalation anthrax; photomicrograph demonstrating necrotic lymph node found at time of autopsy; H&E stain. Credit: CDC. |  | Increasing prevalence of high level penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae over time. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Animated Plane 1" (movie) by Rod Rodrigues. This graph shows how to use Time to create a movie of a plane slicing a surface. |  | New Animation Depicts Changs in Antarctic Ice Sheet For the first time, scientists at NASA have generated a computer model depicting changes in the Antarctic ice sheet since the peak of the last ice age - nearly 20,000 years ago. The West Antarctic ice. Credit: NASA. |
 | Night Time Test Firing. Credit: NASA. |  | For the first time since Pluto's discovery 66 years ago, astronomers have at last directly ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on — for the second time in 1995 - in ... Credit: NASA. |  | View of Africa and Saudi Arabia from Apollo 17.Probably the most requested picture of the Earth, this picture was taken by the Apollo17 astronauts as they left earth orbit en route to the Moon. Taken on Dec. 7, 1972,it was the first time that the trajectory of an Apollo mission enabled a view ofthe south pole. Credit: NASA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Break time in park" by Obed Tewes Commentary: "Girl having a break from work in a park in Perth." | "It's time" by PKremer Commentary: "Back to nature!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Seal barking one time. | | Low-toned, dull, hollow sound; short, low tone of a cow bell being struck by a drumstick one time; the middle bell on an agogo. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Adelbert Von Chamisso | In pain is a new time born. |
Aulus Gellius | Truth is the daughter of time. |
Ben Jonson | That old bald cheater, Time. |
Benjamin Franklin | Remember that time is money. |
Euripides | Time cancels young pain. |
Geoffrey Chaucer | Time and tide wait for no man. |
Miguel de Cervantes | TIme out of mind. |
Oscar Wilde | Time is waste of money. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The surest poison is time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Further, if we have led or sent him upon military service, he shall be relieved from guard in proportion to the time during which he has been on service because of us. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | Hence it comes to pass, that we seldom find any number of men live any time together in this state. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment III. No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1999 | If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. (Abraham Lincoln) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Council may at any time decide that the Seat of the League shall be established elsewhere. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Happily, it was now time to be gone |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | He evidently feared that, stupid as she looked, she understood what she said this time, and was having a joke at his expense |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Well, said Reg, "it’s been an interesting time recently, or rather, a dull time |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Roger Chillingworth had by this time approached the window, and smiled grimly down |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This Fauchelevent was one of the few who were still enemies of Monsieur Madeleine at this time. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Yet at the end of that immense stretch of time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | In happy time, here comes the Duke himself |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | After a time the women asked, What did he want |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | When I arrived at the port of Maldonada (for so it is called) there was no ship in the harbor bound for Luggnagg, nor likely to be in some time. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Any other time your doctor suggests. (references) | |
The user's sense of time and self changes. (references) | ||
Length of time that all samples will be stored. (references) | ||
Business | Men use slightly more time than women. (references) | |
Banks report an all time record of mortgage loans. (references) | ||
The goal of this report is to save the reader time. (references) | ||
Children | Cuba | If the child was found bothering tourists a second time, police frequently fined the child's parents. (references) |
Afghanistan | The Taliban's implementation of educational policy was inconsistent and varied from region to region, as well as over time. (references) | |
Mexico | Penalties under the law include fines of 500 to 1,000 times Mexico City's minimum wage and possible administrative jail time. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cyprus | Maronites are charged the same fee each time they cross. (references) |
Belgium | This policy is intended to reduce processing time for applicants. (references) | |
Togo | Teachers' salaries and students' stipends rarely are paid on time. (references) | |
Discrimination | Kenya | There is credible evidence that the Government sponsored large-scale ethnic violence during the early 1990's, and there were some indications that some government officials have at least tolerated and in some instances instigated ethnic violence on a smaller scale since that time. (references) |
Economic History | Kenya | Down time is always expensive. (references) |
Mexico | Negotiations will take less time. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | The court only considers one case at a time. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Time already served counts toward a sentence. (references) | |
Honduras | Villanueva was the spokesperson for the HOAF at the time. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | Aboriginal leaders were pleased by the removal of the time limit for lodging native title claims but expressed deep concern about the weakening of Aboriginal rights to negotiate with non-Aboriginal leaseholders over the development of rural property. (references) |
Australia | The AIC reports that the incarceration rate among indigenous youth was 18.5 times that of the nonindigenous youth population in 1999. Over 45 percent of Aboriginal men between the ages of 20 and 30 years have been arrested at some time in their lives. (references) | |
Indonesia | Security forces did not obstruct political activities related to the Papuan Special Autonomy Law; however, they did sporadically enforce a no-tolerance policy on flying the Papuan flag, until the Special Autonomy Bill passed Parliament, after which time security forces allowed the flying of the flag. (references) | |
Minorities | Ghana | There have been no prosecutions as of the time of this report. (references) |
Burundi | Northern and eastern Tutsis also have a more difficult time acceding to positions of power. (references) | |
Romania | Until that time, the Greek Catholics continued to hold the religious service in the school building. (references) | |
Political Economy | Japan | This is an exciting time in Japanese politics. (references) |
Sudan | The items were accounted for at the time and returned 2 days later. (references) | |
BOLIVIA | Union leaders say problems are often moot by the time the court rules. (references) | |
Political Rights | Taiwan | The KMT, which lost the legislative majority for the first time, won 68 seats. (references) |
Canada | In 1999 a woman was appointed for the first time as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | The procedure is fair, but is time consuming and expensive both to initiate and to defend. (references) | |
Trade | Vietnam | This list may be altered from time to time. (references) |
