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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The New York second ("the shortest unit of time in the multiverse") is defined in Terry Pratchett's novel Lords and Ladies as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind one honking. [45]

  3. Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    8:41: The FAA's New York Center requests information about Flight 11 over the radio. Flight 175 responds: "We heard a suspicious transmission on our departure out of Boston with someone, [it] sounded like someone keyed the mic and said: 'everyone stay in your seats'". [18] New York Center acknowledges and says it will pass the information on.

  4. Collapse of the World Trade Center - Wikipedia

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    A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center. The cleanup was a massive operation coordinated by the City of New York Department of Design and Construction. On September 22, a preliminary cleanup plan was delivered by Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland ...

  5. Swatch Internet Time - Wikipedia

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    Instead of hours and minutes, in Swatch Time the mean solar day is divided into 1,000 equal parts called .beats, meaning each .beat lasts 86.4 seconds (1.440 minutes) in standard time. The time of day always references the amount of time that has passed since midnight (standard time) in Biel, Switzerland , where Swatch's headquarters is located.

  6. Doomsday clock ticks down, closest ever to "global catastrophe"

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    In January 2024, the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the same as it was in 2023. This is the first time the clock has moved forward since 2023.

  7. Seconds (1966 film) - Wikipedia

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    Principal photography of Seconds began on June 14, 1965, with a budget of $2.5 million. [12] Filming primarily occurred in Malibu, California, where much of the film is set, with additional photography occurring in Scarsdale, New York, where the first act of the film takes place, as well as New York City. [12]

  8. Doomsday Clock 2025: Scientists set new time - AOL

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    Scientists just set the new time for 2025. ... On Tuesday, the clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest the world has ever been to that marker, according to the Bulletin of the ...

  9. List of UTC offsets - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round.