[drj113] posts his cool word clock. After seeing a similar clock on an industrial design website, he set out to make his own version. He made custom pcbs with the toner-etch method. The front is ...

We often use descriptions such as 'quarter past' and 'half past' to tell the time, but it's also good to be able to say exactly how many minutes past the hour or how many minutes to the hour it is.

The New York ball doesn’t work precisely the same, but it was clearly inspired by an ancient method of indicating the time. Apparently, even the ancient Greeks used ball dropping to indicate time.

Use extra caution. && The sun always rises in the east and sets in the west, therefore you can tell what the time is just by looking at the sun's location in the sky. When you look east and the ...

We often use descriptions such as 'quarter past' and 'half past' to tell the time, but it's also good to be able to say exactly how many minutes past the hour or how many minutes to the hour it is.