Dimensional uncertainties aside, the OMEGA timekeeping team intends to continue honoring its role as the official Olympic timekeeping by keeping pace with the achievements of athletes in future games.
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A defendant like Chipotle might argue that their timekeeping policy explicitly prohibits off the clock work, and that Chipotle does not have any unwritten timekeeping policy that contradicts its written policy.
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Atomic clocks are the most precise timekeeping devices ever invented.
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Ever since, timekeeping technology has often been about control and obligation.
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China has a long and esteemed role in the evolution of timekeeping.
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There's a lot the researchers don't know about ZTL's function in floral timekeeping.
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Ball makes a lovely line intended to provide accurate timekeeping for train conductors.
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If this is a glimpse at the future of timekeeping, I'm all in.
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Leap seconds are a byproduct of more accurate timekeeping developed in the 20th century.
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But at the same time, we'd have so much fun because there was no timekeeping.
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So who would be interested in dropping seven figures on such an extreme timekeeping machine?
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"There have been many unforgettable timekeeping moments over the last 84 years," Zobrist told me.
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For many people, astrology was probably the most popular outgrowth of advances in ancient timekeeping.
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Put it on your desk calendar and also on other timekeeping devices, post Greco-Roman.
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As an example of both, it is dazzling evidence of the revolution in timekeeping then underway.
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The exhibition demonstrates how, within Europe, the knowledge of building and perfecting timekeeping spread through print.
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Once it's on your wrist, your body heat powers the timekeeping and some neat other functions.
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These watches use Miyota Quartz movement for precision timekeeping, while each comes with a two-year guarantee.
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These watches use Miyota Quartz movement for precision timekeeping, while each comes with a two-year guarantee.
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Personally, I'm going to stick with my regular clock for timekeeping purposes — but only maybe until Halloween.
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The plane leaves promptly on time, reminding me that I love the Swiss for their timekeeping vigilance.
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The super-accurate timekeeping technology could one day serve as a kind of GPS in deep space.
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Pulsars now serve as vital astronomical tools for timekeeping, determining distances to map the universe, and measuring gravity.
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That's a tourbillon and shows the seconds while ensuring the effects of gravity won't mess up the timekeeping.
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Many innovations in timekeeping were disseminated through books, particularly since, until the 19th century, all timepieces were handmade.
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Ignoring Kazmi's sarcastic comment about his excellent timekeeping, Safdar pulls his red Edhi T-shirt over the top.
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The latest advance is a new way to keep strontium clocks, finicky but amazingly accurate timekeeping devices, ticking.
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A 363–362 BCE stele that tracked both the date and cult activities shows another public system of timekeeping.
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Should a hybrid smartwatch take modern tech back in time or bring legacy timekeeping mechanisms to today's digital watches?
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Others, however, see them as exceptional artworks and embodiments of the creative exuberance that occurred as timekeeping was revolutionised.
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Since they were first created in the mid-twentieth century, atomic clocks have been the gold standard of timekeeping.
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Most people would be happy to dispense with this oddity of timekeeping, first imposed in Germany 100 years ago.
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The worker said "we use our fingerprints to clock in and clock out" on the hospital's payroll timekeeping system.
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It also featured a hollow case with a timekeeping module suspended in gel to recreate the bouncing-ball effect.
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Because the Apple Watch is the best there is – for now – and it deserves a place in the timekeeping pantheon.
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But the clock is ticking (or is that just a repetitive sound generated by an AI trained on timekeeping data?).
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Through 86 volumes that span the 15th century to the present, the Grolier Club visualizes the development of modern timekeeping.
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Median annual salary in 2018: $39,910What they do, according to O*NET: Repair and manufacture watches and other timekeeping mechanisms.
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The directive harmonised EU-wide timekeeping to help make the transition from one time to another smoother within the internal market.
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But when it comes to web encryption, a surprising number errors actually stem from a straightforward and seemingly basic mechanism: timekeeping.
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A pair of new pendulum clocks—a kind of timekeeping device that Huygens invented—hung side by side on the wall.
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The company used timekeeping devices that automatically punched employees off the clock, even if they were still working, the lawsuit said.
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Behind the luminous crystal sits the watch's "skeleton," the intricate timekeeping mechanisms of the watch, crafted from titanium and stainless steel.
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The watches bear the Poinçon de Genève seal, an indication of quality craftsmanship and timekeeping standards for watches made in Geneva.
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Despite its enduring influence on our contemporary calendar and our general perception of time, ancient timekeeping hasn't been widely explored in exhibitions.
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But meanwhile, UTC is defined by an atomic clock whose timekeeping is independent of any issues about the rotation of the Earth.
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We learn near the beginning that government-issued chips installed in people's wrists are used for everything from timekeeping to monetary transactions.
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The Mondaine Classic watch takes its inspiration from the Official Swiss Railways Clock, with its accurate timekeeping and distinct red second hand.Pros:
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In 2014, Nomos unveiled watches containing escapements — the precision components at the heart of the timekeeping mechanism — that it produced in house.
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Handing my timekeeping and my diary over to a computer is one thing; asking it to breathe for me is quite another.
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He said there was a timekeeping problem with the mission that caused the spacecraft to fire its thrusters at the wrong moment.
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The reset also came with an improvement in timekeeping that means the next rollover will not be needed for about 157 years.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Dozens of clocks retrofitted with sandpaper hands tick in unison, redefining time as the destruction of timekeeping.
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Specifically, the suit alleges that Chipotle routinely utilizes timekeeping devices that automatically punch employees off the clock, even if they are still working.
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Timekeeping software was the focus of a study I co-authored last year documenting how it could be used to facilitate wage theft.
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The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World explores widespread modes of timekeeping in the Greco-Roman world and their continued influence today.
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Researchers want to use atoms that oscillate at a higher frequency to improve accuracy and more atoms to make timekeeping more precise and stable.
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Rugged, water-resistant, and full of useful timekeeping features — the G-Shock DW6900 is built to handle the most intense workouts and sports activities.
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Ye works with atomic clocks, the most accurate timekeeping devices ever made, and demonstrated how his team manipulates strontium atoms to make precision measurements.
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So it appears, this time at least, that a timekeeping error and not the work of the zebras cost the Raptors a potential win.
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The project started just after World War II when, according to Ye, scientists realized that major advances in timekeeping preceded major advances in technology.
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It might take an extra few milliseconds here and there because it's a great big-ass planet and doesn't care much about our timekeeping methods.
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The SI timekeeping system is big and complex, and it remains undetermined which variety of optical atomic clock will prove to be the best one.
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But just as athletes have become faster, stronger, and bolder since 1932, so too has OMEGA upped its timekeeping game with each successive Olympic experience.
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Its workers test watches for water resistance, accurate timekeeping and magnetic resistance; by 303, Omega said, most of its watches will be certified by Metas.
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Because our timekeeping is based on the movements of our solar system, it's hard to find a more accurate way of telling time than the sun.
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The Montblanc Summit is the company's first venture into the digital timekeeping world, bringing with it some of the expertise Montblanc has for crafting mechanical timepieces.
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Hublot is the official timekeeping sponsor of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, so, of course, it has developed a special edition watch for the football tournament.
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That's because GPS navigation technology was originally built with a short-sighted timekeeping system that will reset next month and has the potential to cause chaos.
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Yet while rapidly changing technology gives timekeeping a contemporary cast, its role in organizing our lives owes a great deal to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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The super-accurate timekeeping technology could one day allow robotic and crewed spaceships to compare their local time to times broadcasted by atomic clocks on Earth.
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Designed for pilots, the DMG-11 featured a 39-millimeter dial with two hands that measured current and maximum G-readings, and a small timekeeping dial.
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The courts' broad interpretations and numerous lawsuits against employers over statutory violations of the law could also deter employers from using more accurate timekeeping or security technology.
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One of the most complicated and precise timekeeping devices ever built looks straight out of a James Bond film, and it's going to auction for seven figures.
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That means these optical clocks can be the future of precise timekeeping and will probably be able to keep time about 100 times better than atomic clocks.
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This fragility of the timekeeping process — which feels organic and natural in all the ways that an electronic clock is not — holds a certain romance for consumers.
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Synced clocks in operating systems may make digital timekeeping look easy, but it takes a lot of work behind the scenes, and doesn't always solve problems online.
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The workers claim in the suit that Chipotle uses timekeeping technology that automatically punches workers off the clock, even if they are required to continue to work.
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Based on the original G-Shock models, this decidedly unsmart (but not dumb) watch features solar charging, atomic timekeeping and a simple Bluetooth connection to your phone.
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The Unix time system is agnostic about things like the day of the week, the month, the hour, or really any of the trappings of human timekeeping.
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Image courtesy of the artist Slovenian artist Aleksander Drakulic spent ten years working with timekeeping technology, the type that helps keep precise synchronizations for industry and governments.
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Paradoxically, this dissolution of time happens even as the mechanics of timekeeping — the steady ticktock of Mr. Reich's thousands of tiny rhythmic components — remain in the foreground.
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But as Deadspin's Timothy Burke points out, swim events can only be measured down to this level due to limitations in pool measurements, rather than timekeeping constraints.
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People who write timekeeping software have had to go to lots of trouble to make sure the leap second doesn't cause any glitches, but you're all set.
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These exact frequencies can then be used for timekeeping and for scientists on Earth to measure the Doppler shifts of signals to figure out the craft's trajectory.
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Traditionally, watch warranties are good for two to three years after purchase, covering manufacturer defects affecting the performance of the movement and the watch's reliability in timekeeping.
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During 2016, the museum will highlight 12 people who had roles in timekeeping history and, each month, a different timepiece will be featured during its scheduled gallery talks.
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Cellphones serve as the timekeeping device of choice for far more people than wristwatches, and they do so far more accurately than even the most precise mechanical watch.
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It is the first timepiece made by the company to receive the Poinçon de Genève, or Geneva Seal, indicating quality craftsmanship and timekeeping standards for watches made in Geneva.
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It was the first watch made by the company to receive the Poinçon de Genève, the seal that indicates quality craftsmanship and timekeeping standards for watches made in Geneva.
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Yet biometrics have many benefits, including the ability for an individual to quickly identify friends and sort personal photos, or for a company to have a more secure timekeeping system.
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Plenty of ancient cultures were keen on astronomy, for the patterns of the heavens were the basis of their calendars and timekeeping systems (not to mention their systems of astrology).
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Fossil Archival Series Starmaster Watch, on Fossil, for $115Originally released in the '90s, Fossil's Starmaster watches were the latest and greatest thing in timekeeping because of the electroluminescent backlit dials.
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The founder, Hyungsoo Kim, learned from a blind friend that there were very few options, none of which were fashionable, when it came to timekeeping for those with visual impairment.
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Neil Armstrong left his on the lunar landing module because he wanted to be sure he had a timekeeping device he could rely on when he returned to the module.
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Mr. Guadalupe declined to share the cost of the tournament timekeeping role but he said the return on investment, as far as brand awareness was concerned, was worth every penny.
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"My last two projects were, in a way, exploring the patterns of our lives in relation to various time scales," said Mr. Jan (fittingly, given the initiative's association with timekeeping).
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At least one important plant has its own protein stopwatch that helps regulate its timekeeping, and the discovery could help us hack plants to turn them into better food-producing servants.
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In a step toward addressing these inconsistencies, the internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare will now support a free timekeeping protocol known as Roughtime, which helps synchronize the internet's clocks and validate timestamps.
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In its petition, the NFIB called the deadline "arbitrary" and said small businesses need more time to analyze the legal status of employees and make adjustments to timekeeping and payroll systems.
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Daniel A. Craig withdrew on Wednesday after NBC reported on a federal probe showing he had falsified government travel and timekeeping records during his time in the Bush administration in 2005.
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The reasons for the leap second, though, are pretty fascinating — and they reveal some underappreciated facts about the difficulty of precise timekeeping on this spinning chunk of rock we call Earth.
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Instrument makers seized on this to build musical timekeeping devices in which the length of a pendulum is adjusted according to specific gradations to make it swing at a desired speed.
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How else to explain their constant reference to a golden era of timekeeping, more than 200 years ago, when masters such as Abraham-Louis Breguet devised the world's first complicated timepieces?
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An explanation on the Bulletin's website accounts for this seeming lapse in timekeeping: "The Cuban Missile Crisis, for all its potential and ultimate destruction, only lasted a few weeks," it says.
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The timekeeping mechanism looks as if it is floating inside the crystal, but actually is secured to the back of the clock, where Mr. Newson's signature appears in his trademark orange.
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The tiny bronze device shaped like a hunk of meat on a hook is one of the more curious survivors of the widespread culture of timekeeping in the Greek and Roman world.
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And that might very well help us make sense of timekeeping as it's involved in the prediction of events to come (something that itself is based on knowledge obtained from past experiences).
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Omega prides itself on being the brand chosen for precision timekeeping: by the Allied forces during World War II, for the Olympic Games and by NASA for the United States space program.
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The piece is equipped with a constant force mechanism called a remontoire that controls the heartbeat of the watch, transferring power between the mainspring and escapement to ensure its stability in timekeeping.
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The NPL's ever-smaller clocks are just one step towards marketable products that could vastly outdo GPS (which itself is an application of atomic timekeeping) in navigation, or help spot what lies underground.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Time: The Quest for Precision at the Grolier Club in Manhattan explores the development of timekeeping from the 15th century to the present through rare books.
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Adding to Ping's quiet $3.7 million seed co-led by First Round and Initialized last year, the startup will spend the cash to scale up enterprise distribution and become the new timekeeping standard.
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DISPUTED FINISH AT MICHIGAN STATE Eron Harris had 31 points and No. 13 Michigan State (2-2) held off Florida Gulf Coast, 78-77, after a timekeeping error led to a disputed finish.
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"We are still in the development of our next technologies, but it's fair to say that Tokyo will be one of the most innovative Olympic Games in timekeeping that we've ever had," Zobrist said.
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Colin Okoye from school has endorsed your timekeeping skills; Jenny Atkins from college has reached out to tell you there's temp work at the entirely faceless logistics company she works for, if you're looking?
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Even if he feels moved to do so, a civilized gentleman would apologize profusely after the debate for misspeaking if it were to be revealed, by fair and scientific timekeeping, that the gentleman was wrong.
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The quartz clock (shout out Pierre and Jacques Curie) was even more accurate, since when electricity is sent through quartz it vibrates at a specific frequency so it can be programmed for exact timekeeping purposes.
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I've told the FIA this and asked them what they'd like to do with it but the bottom line is there's not a lot they can do with it because we do all the timekeeping.
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After all, nail-bitingly close finishes are a time-honored tradition at the Olympics, and OMEGA's team has had to adjudicate results that would have been impossible to judge without sophisticated camera and timekeeping technology.
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But in the meantime he had made the acquaintance of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, a pianist and builder of mechanical music machines from Vienna, who had been developing a pendulum-based timekeeping device of his own.
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The pendulum clock (conceived by Galileo, made by Christiaan Huygens) was useful for accurate timekeeping because the time it takes for a pendulum to swing is approximately the same regardless of the size of the pendulum.
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"We have taken additional steps over the last decade, including enhancing our timekeeping systems and additional training, to make sure all our associates understand the importance of those policies and comply with them," the company said.
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Olympic pool lengths have a margin of error of three centimeters and a single pool's dimensions can subtly fluctuate depending on factors like ambient temperature and occupancy, which obfuscates timekeeping beyond one hundredth of a second.
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The watch's artistry is matched by its internal specifications, which include a 40-hour power reserve, 182 parts and the Poinçon de Genève, the seal indicating quality craftsmanship and timekeeping standards for watches made in Geneva.
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Leap seconds are a fairly regular addition to international timekeeping, happening on average every 18 months, and have historically caused problems for web companies using code that can't handle the time anomalies, much like the whole Y2K debacle.
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"Omega is the world's leader in sports timekeeping, and the extension of our agreement through to 2032 means Olympic athletes will continue to be able to rely on Omega's expertise," IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement.
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COBOL is also used by the Justice Department in its program to provide information about prison inmates, and the VA, which uses it for employee timekeeping and to track veterans' benefits claims and dates of death, the report said.
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While the technology governing timekeeping may have changed, for Romans in antiquity it was important to visually represent time — even if the length of Roman hours were not completely standardized, as ours are, and could vary by time of year.
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It's one part romance and nostalgia, and another part just the hardcore reliability of a timekeeping device that can be used for generations without ever having to worry about charging adapters, OS updates, or any number of other obsolescence threats.
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Every day, as if tracing the rise and fall of the sun through the firmament, concentrations of special timekeeping protein complexes surge and ebb inside nearly every cell in your body, in a sinusoidal curve that repeats itself every 24 hours.
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Where the first module was geared more towards testing out maneuvers like docking and re-entry, the next crew will use its extended mission time to focus on scientific experiments in fields like space medicine, atomic timekeeping, and solar storm research.
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But then I realized: there we were, out on a beach with no obvious signs of modern civilization—and nobody had brought any properly set timekeeping device (and in those days my cellphone was just a phone, and didn't even have signal there).
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When they introduced their subversive luxury brand in 1993, the name they chose was a mash-up of Ur, the Sumerian city where modern timekeeping began, and werk, the German word for work (also, appropriately, part of the German word Uhrwerk, or movement).
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The W2200 is not the first smartwatch to attempt to blend analog timekeeping with a touchscreen, but it is the first one to run Wear OS. And, as is often the issue with firsts, it has more than a few growing pains.
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Generally regarded as a masterpiece of modern watchmaking, the wristwatch was inspired by a Breguet pocket watch that Mr. Journe restored for a client in 1982; it featured two balance wheels in what is called a resonance movement, an esoteric example of precision timekeeping.
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The passage of the sun across the sky allowed ancient Egyptians to track their work hours, the pull of gravity kept pendulum clocks ticking to allow seafarers to navigate the oceans, and the vibration of quartz under stress brought timekeeping on to people's wrists.
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In 2012 Dominique Renaud, the watch's creator, decided to end a self-imposed exile from watchmaking and invented a new movement with a vibrating, rather than oscillating, balance system that he says all but eliminates friction in timekeeping to increase efficiency, precision and power reserve.
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The Basel exhibition explores some of the more rebellious responses to the metronome in a room that features the instructions for Ligeti's "Poème Symphonique" for 100 metronomes, a work that scandalized a Dutch audience in 1962 because the timekeeping devices were the sole instruments.
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Or one might turn to the work of Peter Hancock, who studies sex differences in time perception, and find that men do slightly better than women at keeping time—perhaps because, as Hancock notes, men likely invented the modern metrics of timekeeping in the first place.
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In a brief filed on Wednesday, the workers told the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that because their collective bargaining agreement did not mention Southwest's fingerprint-based timekeeping system, their claims did not have to proceed in union arbitration under the federal Railway Labor Act.
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The company's almost 6,500-square-foot museum is home to more than 10,000 timepieces – the oldest of which date back to the house's first pocket watches made between 1832 and 1866, as well as a selection of timekeeping and mechanical instruments and the brand's advertising archives.
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If you imagine the clock as an oscillating sine wave that represents the rate of timekeeping protein production, like a sound wave coming out of your Bluetooth speaker, these compounds make the peaks higher and the troughs lower, the molecular equivalent of turning the volume knob way up.
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"Livro da Criação" ("Book of Creation"), from 28-21975, comprises 21997 square boards that translate prehistory into pure form: Red and white triangles suggest the discovery of fire, a folding fan stands for the invention of the wheel, and a rotating red disk symbolizes the invention of timekeeping.
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But more cosmopolitan and some Eastern areas, like New York City and the state of Massachusetts, decided to keep it, opening up an inconsistent approach to timekeeping until Congress split the difference in 1966 and set the rule as six months of standard time and six months of daylight saving time.
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To put things in watch-geek-ese, the tourbillon, which was pioneered by Abraham-Louis Breguet at the end of the 18th century, mounts the watch's escapement, balance spring and balance wheel inside a tiny rotating cage, to fight the effects of gravity, and in theory even out minor deviations in timekeeping (phew).
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They passed know-how over chats in the park, sent their errand boys across the Place for a piece of ground glass or advice on a calendar design, and puzzled out the future of timekeeping and, ultimately, the discovery of new ways of thinking over cafe and croissants in this small square not far from Notre Dame.
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The workers claim in the suit that Chipotle uses timekeeping technology that automatically punches workers off the clock, even if they are required to continue to work In a letter Monday to the David Weil, the director of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, DeLauro demanded an investigation into the corporation's labor practices and policies.
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Namely has been one of the trailblazers in bringing HR into the cloud, applying data science to its aggregation algorithms, and offering its tools in a software-as-a-service model, but interestingly its newest product will take it back to more old-school parts of the HR world: timekeeping, and a new (its first) piece of hardware for businesses that employ hourly workers and use punchcards to mark the time.
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But the Solid State Watch, an art project from design studio CW&T, which is currently looking for funding on Kickstarter, is an ultra-minimalist tribute to simpler days (specifically, the classic Casio F91W-1 digital watch.) Where the Casio F91W-1 was a fairly simplistic timekeeping device, offering the most bare-bones features of a clock, stopwatch, alarm, and backlight, the Solid State Watch takes things a step further.
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