10 Interesting Things About Time

1. Do you ever wonder as to why we have to set our clock ahead in the month of March? It is a Daylight Saving Time which was first started just like that by Benjamin Franklin. He was the one who suggested that if people wake up early in summer, they will able to work more in the day light and thus it will save more candles. Day light saving was first introduced in U.K. in the year 1917 and later on it was spread to many different places globally.

2. What is the explanation you usually give to your boss when you reach late to the office? Well, on an average the commuter in any US city loses 38 hours in a year due to the delays of traffics.

3. It has been estimated by the Dept. of Energy that the demand for the electricity has drops by approximately 0.5 percent during the Daylight Saving Time. It saves approximately three million barrels oil.

4. According to psychologists, New York, Boston, and Buffalo are the 3 fastest paced places in United States.

5. The slow paced cities are Sacramento, Shreveport, and LA. They have concluded this result by watching how fast the bank tellers are making changes, pedestrians walk, and how the postal clerks spoke.

6. One second is specified as 1/86,400 of the total length of one day. Even so, the rotation of earth is not utterly dependable. Because of the tidal friction of sun and our satellite moon, it slows our earth and as a result it increases the span of one day by about three milli seconds in one century.

7. As this is determined that the earth time is continuously increasing per century, this proves that the day was 1 hour less i.e 23 hours at the time when Dinosaurs were ruling our planet.

8. Do you know that weather can change the day? Yes this is possible, during the El Niño events; it is quite possible that the strong winds can slow down the rotation of Earth by some fraction of milli­seconds in every 24 hours.

9. Do you know which one is the most faithful clock in the world? It is the one which is kept in the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Colorado. Even one single second will not lose in a billion of years in this clack.

10. Do you ever imagine that there can be end of time too? Well, as observed and explained by 3 scientists from Spain, that the acceleration of the expansion of the cosmos is deceptive caused due to slowing of time. As per their calculations, the time may stop at last. And when that will happen everything will eventually comes to standstill position.

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