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  2. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The Mahāsāṃghika, translated into Chinese as the Móhēsēngzhī Lǜ (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425) describes several units of time, including shùn or shùnqǐng (瞬頃; 'blink moment') and niàn. According to this text, niàn is the smallest unit of time at 18 milliseconds and a shùn is 360 milliseconds. [ 8 ]

  3. Incense clock - Wikipedia

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    The incense clock (simplified Chinese: 香钟; traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping device that originated from China during the Song dynasty (960–1279) and spread to neighboring East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea.

  4. Time in China - Wikipedia

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    The National Time Service Center in Mount Li, Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi. In the 1870s, the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory was constructed by a French Catholic missionary. In 1880s officials in Shanghai French Concession started to provide a time announcement service using the Shanghai Mean Solar Time provided by the aforementioned observatory for ships into and out of Shanghai.

  5. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    An incense clock; time was measured by means of powdered incense burnt along a pre-measured path. Incense clocks were first used in China around the 6th century, [49] mainly for religious purposes, but also for social gatherings or by scholars.

  6. Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia

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    The little-endian format (day, month, year; 1 June 2022) is the most popular format worldwide, followed by the big-endian format (year, month, day; 2006 June 1). Dates may be written partly in Roman numerals (i.e. the month) [citation needed] or written out partly or completely in words in the local language.

  7. BPM (time service) - Wikipedia

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    BPM time signal in waterfall. BPM is the call sign of the official short-wave time signal service of the People's Republic of China, operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, broadcasting from CAS's National Time Service Center in Pucheng County, Shaanxi at , roughly 70 km northeast of Lintong, [1] along with NTSC's long-wave time signal BPL on 100

  8. Date and time notation in Asia - Wikipedia

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    The time 08:05 would be read as bādiǎn língwǔfēn; 'eight hours zero-five minutes', similar to how English speakers would describe the same time as "eight oh-five". Both the 12-hour and 24-hour notations are used in spoken and written Chinese.

  9. BPC (time signal) - Wikipedia

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    BPC is the callsign of a time signal broadcasting from the BPC Shangqiu Low-Frequency Time-Code Radio Station, cooperatively constructed by the National Time Service Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xi'an Gaohua Technology Co., Ltd., beginning April 25, 2002.