Time

[pete_c]

The piddling storms passed by too fast. 
 
Woken up early this morning (~1 AM)  by knock knock hail on the glass skylight.
 
Not enough rain yesterday.
 
Rainfall Yesterday 0.90 inches  
Rainfall Rate Max 0.27 in/hr at 00:36
High Hourly Rainfall 0.23 in
 

 

[Trucktruck]

Time is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.  Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension, along with the spatial dimensions.

Time has long been a major subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars. Nevertheless, diverse fields such as business, industry, sports, the sciences, and the performing arts all incorporate some notion of time into their respective measuring systems.  Some simple definitions of time include "time is what clocks measure", which is a problematically vague and self-referential definition that utilizes the device used to measure the subject as the definition of the subject, and "time is what keeps everything from happening at once", which is without substantive meaning in the absence of the definition of simultaneity in the context of the limitations of human sensation, observation of events, and the perception of such events.
 
Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST) or summer time (see "Terminology") is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that light extends into the evening hours—sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, users of DST adjust clocks forward one hour near the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to "normal" or regular time.

New Zealander George Vernon Hudson proposed the modern idea of daylight saving in 1895. Germany and Austria-Hungary organized the first implementation, starting on 30 April 1916. Many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s.

The practice has received both advocacy and criticism. Putting clocks forward benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but can cause problems for evening entertainment and for other activities tied to the sun (such as farming) or to darkness (such as fireworks shows). Although some early proponents of DST aimed to reduce evening use of incandescent lighting (formerly a primary use of electricity), modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited or contradictory.

DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt meetings, travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns.  Software can often adjust computer clocks automatically, but this can be limited and error-prone, particularly when various jurisdictions change the dates and timings of DST changes.
 
Daylight Saving Time Begins Sunday, March 8, 2015
 
Using the following statement for my IP cameras:  CST+6CDT+5,M3.2.0,M11.1.0

Time flies..."What hurts more? The pain of hardwork, or the pain of regret?"

 

[sda]

Time is Speed, Speed is Time.
Cal (Dennis Hopper), King of the Mountain, 1981

 

[Neurorad]

Time is Speed, Speed is Time.
Cal (Dennis Hopper), King of the Mountain, 1981

I want my money by 11AM.
Howard (Dennis Hopper), Speed, 1994

 

[mikefamig]

That's only 0.0061 light years, or a little over twice the diameter of out solar system. On a galactic scale you haven't moved at all.

 
My wife has pointed out to me a flaw in my calculation. I have even more miles on me considering that I should add the circumference of the earth for each time it rotates on it's axis but I'm too lazy to do the arithmetic. I must be getting old.
 
Mike.

 

[pete_c]

Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock....
 
Tick tock (var. tik tok, tic toc) is the general English language onomatopoeia for the sound made by an analog clock's escapement. Sometimes, tic tac (which is a Latinized form of foreign languages) can also be used to illustrate the same sound.
 
 ....no April showers (well not much)....in the midwest...
 

 
off on kester (segeway, tangent, whatever)...
 
Intel Tick-Tock

"Tick-Tock" is a model adopted by chip manufacturer Intel Corporation from 2007 to follow every microarchitectural change with a die shrink of the process technology. Every "tick" represents a shrinking of the process technology of the previous microarchitecture (sometimes introducing new instructions, as with Broadwell, released in late 2014) and every "tock" designates a new microarchitecture.  Every year to 18 months, there is expected to be one tick or tock.
 
Broadwell (formerly known as Rockwell is Intel's codename for the 14 nanometer die shrink of its Haswell microarchitecture. It is a "tick" in Intel's tick-tock principle as the next step in semiconductor fabrication.  Unlike the previous tick-tock iterations, Broadwell will not completely replace the full range of CPUs from the previous microarchitecture (Haswell), as there will be no low-end desktop CPUs based on Broadwell.

Broadwell's H and C variants will be used in conjunction with Intel 9 Series chipsets (Z97, H97 and HM97), in addition to retaining backward compatibility with some of the Intel 8 Series chipsets.
 

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Intel is one of the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers.

Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics (the fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate).