Possibly originating with the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer's "time and tide wait for no man," the idea that time waits for ...

There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved their atomic clock based on a trapped ...

The decimal portion of a 12noon date/time value would be .5, for example; the 6pm portion would be .75, and so on.

Rather than using hours and minutes, the solar day in the .beat system is divided into 1,000 parts equal to one minute in the French Revolutionary decimal time system, or 1 minute and 26.4 seconds ...