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A night view of the World Clock, taken on 22 April 2016. The World Clock (German: Weltzeituhr; German pronunciation: [ˈvɛltt͡saɪ̯tˌʔuːɐ̯] ⓘ), also known as the Urania World Clock (German: Urania-Weltzeituhr), is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin.
Six-hour clock at the Quirinal Palace, Rome The six-hour clock ( Italian : sistema orario a sei ore ), also called the Roman ( alla romana ) or the Italian ( all'italiana ) system, is a system of date and time notation in Italy which was invented before the modern 24-hour clock .
The Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio was a complex astronomical clock built between 1348 and 1364 in Padova, Italy, by the doctor and clock-maker Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio. The Astrarium had seven faces and 107 moving gears; it showed the positions of the sun, the moon and the five planets then known, as well as religious feast days.
International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name temps atomique international [1]) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. [2] TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories worldwide. [3]
Fanzago's astronomical clock is an astronomical clock in Clusone, Italy. It is housed in a medieval tower in the southwest corner of the Palazzo Comunale [ it ] . [ 1 ] Dating from 1583, it was designed by local mathematician Pietro Fanzago, and still runs on its original mechanism, [ 2 ] with restorations in 1873, 1928 and 2006.
The Roman day starting at dawn survives today in the Spanish word siesta, literally the sixth hour of the day (sexta hora). [ 11 ] The daytime canonical hours of the Catholic Church take their names from the Roman clock: the prime , terce , sext and none occur during the first ( prīma ) = 6 am, third ( tertia ) = 9 am, sixth ( sexta ) = 12 pm ...
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The Greenwich 24-hour analog clock at 14:06:49 UTC. The hour hand is at an angle of 211° 42′ 15″ from vertical, making the time 211° 42′ 15″ in NET. An example New Earth Time analog clock. New Earth Time (or NET), also called degree time, is an alternative naming system for measuring the time of day proposed in 1999. In NET the day is ...