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"The best clocks in national laboratories all over the world, they're using laser-cooled atoms to keep time."
"A knocker up's job was exactly what it sounds like; these were the human alarm clocks of their time."
"What is also pretty neat is that it will also be aware enough to know what is the least distance traveled that we can take to make sure those hands are going to show the accurate time."
"The art refinement tradition style and function of wearing a watch should never be lost."
"This is a watch that was famous in the mid 20th century as a way for divers to be able to time their dives."
"Evening to evening is how yahuwah taught us to count seven days."
"What you're looking for is when the 10 and the two invert and then uninverts."
"Launch is about 15 minutes from now at 229 universal coordinated time or 1029 Eastern Time."
"I'm Jory Goodman, the Time Teller. Remember, I didn't invent time, I just tell it."
"Rolex is the official timekeeper for the Wimbledon tournament."
"Referee blew up 10 seconds early, it's a big win for Leicester and a big loss for Liverpool."
"Watches just by their construction are made of course to tell time but also I think are able to extend a great period of time."
"Watches can house something that I think can be a reminder for us as we continue throughout our lives."
"This is the perfect time to pick this watch up and add it to your tech collection."
"A clock in order to meet the standards of the longitude act could not gain or lose more than three seconds in every 24 hour period."
"Adam's calendar being one of the earliest known monuments indicates ancient peoples charted and kept track of time."
"It's vitally important to bring back the tradition of wearing wristwatches."
"Zero seconds a day rate. That means that the watch is not gaining or losing any time. It has healthy amplitude and a good beat error. That is about the best case that we could hope for."
"The first thing to understand about calendars is that they're not really a measurement of time, they're our measurement of cycles."
"The modern field watch and the field watch was separated from all the other watches out there because it was all about simplicity of being able to tell time."
"Watches are an incredible way to reward yourself for every chapter of your life."
"I'm not only an astronomer, I'm also a horologist."
"Sergeant Butterman, little hand says it's time to rock and roll."
"Solar charging and radio controlled atomic timekeeping."
"It tells both old Czech and Central European Time, tracks the movement of stars and planets through the sky, and even helps people keep track of the astrological calendar through its zodiac Circle."
"The ancient Maya had a shockingly advanced way of tracking time."
"Discover the role of pulsars as the cosmos's unparalleled timekeepers."
"The evolution of timekeeping devices reflects not only technological advancements but also shifts in societal preferences and fashion trends."
"Leap years are not common. They've got an extra day, 366 days total."
"So, the solution is to add an extra day to the calendar periodically to make our calendar match up with the solar year."
"The most recent year divisible by 100 with no remainder was the year 2000, and that was a leap year because it was divisible by 400."
"All of a sudden our clocks will still think because a negative number will get subtracted to the current epoch time."
"The rhythms of nature probably gave man his first awareness of time."
"For an order to measure time, you need something that will give you a constantly repeating movement, a rhythm."
"All clocks are set by radio signals in the Western Hemisphere, these come from the United States Naval Observatory where signals are broadcast accurate to within one thousandth of a second."
"Clock winders were the unsung heroes of timekeeping, whose meticulous craft was essential for maintaining public and private clocks across towns and cities."
"Being able to tell the time and the date really quickly on my wrist is helpful too."
"I don't want to go long. I didn't bring my watch. Can I borrow your watch?"
"Vimshottari Dasha is one of the most important ways to study time in Vedic Astrology."
"The sacred calendar was made up of 13 months divided into 20 days each."
"The Balmoral clock has always been kept three minutes fast to ensure that people don't miss their train."
"Before we were all walking around with smartphones and watches on our wrist to tell the time, the average person didn't really have a way to know what part of the day it was."
"I really don't be keeping track of the time."
"The year in Ethiopia is 13 months long, 12 months of 30 days each and an additional month that has five days in a regular year and six in a leap year."
"The best quantum clocks we know about use something that's equivalent to the repetition code."
"Life is complicated enough. We don't need to further complicate it with ridiculous maneuvers like moving the clock back and forth for really no good reason."
"Let's just [ __ ] stop with the change in the clocks, how's that?"
"People would set their clock by the wrestling show."
"It's nice to know what time it is without having to look at your phone."
"Let me go back one more time if I can. Hang on, how long did that whole thing take in real time? What was the time on the clock? I have to know."
"Clocking in and out is a formality in timekeeping."
"What's that just what's the time today dwelling in the sky oh it's quarter past Rolex oh it's qu pass let's go let's go"
He began keeping track of how much time passed, as best he could. "Two weeks, three days, seven hours, and fifty-eight minutes. Oh… Jesus."
"Get this: it's accurate to plus 15 or minus 15 seconds per month. Not per day."
"It's a little bit after 10:00 on the main hour hand and you can see that the GMT hand is also pointing to the 10 marker on the bezel."
"It serves the same purpose that lets you offset your timing bezel to track another time zone."
"Andrew Watson has had a lap time disallowed so now Ash Sutton is the fastest. Not much longer."
"Scotland and its people have always taken account of the changing seasons and were among the first to time the passing of the year."
"Astrology is actually born of Vedic science. Time was important in a ritualistic context, so precise measurement of time was developed."
"The reverence for the number 12 can be attributed in part to its mathematical versatility... leading to the conceptualization of the year's events."
"I like being able to just quickly glance at it and see the time, that's how a watch should work."
"Good afternoon, beautiful people. It is Monday, April 12, 2021 years after zero, and there is a lot to be talked about today."
"It's time to grow up and get a real watch."
"We are now splitting hairs. But of course, when you adjust a Cesium clock, splitting hairs is what it is all about."
"They're subtle assets, so not too flashy... like a plain Jane watch, nice timepiece, like an asset."
"Solid amplitude at 231 and zero beat error and it's within 1 second a day, so really, really nice."
"Enjoy them, they're all watches, they all tell time."
"It really is a stunning clock, and the craftsmanship on those new tubes is outstanding."
"The Accutron was the first wristwatch that would guarantee an accuracy of a minute a month when worn on the person's wrist."
"That's one minute. Thank you so much. I appreciate you, man. Have a lovely day."
"They were able to develop a calendar that is almost as accurate as the one we use today."
"Well, it looks like Peter's confidence and his watch paid off."
"I always say just remember the importance of time and groove."
"Chronographs are probably some of the most useful type of watches out there."
"I'm running late, you know how long it's been since I had a drink? 391 days."
"We made it to Steel Rig, it's ten to one."
"Having a clock generator is a big advantage."
"A clock sounding the Westminster Abbey chimes."
"There's nothing more visual than an actual watch, it's not a digital watch, it's like it has an old hand watch, very romantic, very noirish."
"You should have a watch, and when you're practicing now, be really strict with yourself on these timings."
"The Grand Seiko free-sprung balance requires more work to adjust, making it essential for timekeeping."
"I don't always just look at my watch because I want to see what the time is; I actually look at the watch because I want to look at the watch."
"It would be an oversight to ignore the brand's rich history in the arena of aviation timekeeping."
"Every 60 seconds and makes one rotation, that's super cool."
"Time reckoning was important for all early agricultural civilizations."
"Egypt's oldest calendar is around 7,000 years old."
"It's more about your time and your attitude you put in your playing."
"With multiband six, that's atomic timekeeping, there's a radio receiver built-in and this thing will set itself to the right time."
"First, it needs to keep time accurately, which this does because it has multiband six."
"Timekeeping is probably the feature that I use daily the most."
"It's a stunning looking watch, it really is great as an everyday wearer."
"But humans weren't able to accurately keep track of the time until they invented mechanical clocks."
"Every hour you were treated to a symphony of clocks."
"It does have a nice display where you can see the day of the week."
"You don't have to pull your phone out of your pocket to look at the time, you just turn your wrist and there's the time."
"Most jewelry that people wear has virtually no practical application in the modern world, but your wristwatch serves not only as jewelry, it serves not only as a window to the world of your personal taste, but also it does something for you: it keeps track of the time."
"The watch that I wear every day is this G-Shock... it counts my steps and it automatically updates the time for where I'm at."
"A good quality automatic wristwatch sends a signal to the people that you meet."
"The operation is incredibly intuitive and different than even the highest end of world time complications."
"The world's most accurate quartz watch with an accuracy of 12 seconds per year."
"I really wanted this clock because I've always been kind of into like funny clocks."
"For most of history, a watch or a clock was a person's one of their most prized possessions."
"For most people, a quartz watch is going to be a better choice for your everyday life."
"I thought it was just a normal clock, but it was a skeleton clock."
"It's a perpetual calendar, so it will keep track of the day, date, month, leap year, and the year, continuously for 100 years without regulation."
"It's a movement that's way ahead of its time."
"Everyone likes a cool old Seiko, and a lot of people don't like watches in this day and age, but it's just a nice thing to commemorate a proper birthday."
"Spin it one way and it moves the day of the week, spin it the other way and it does the day of the month."
"It's not a Precision instrument; it is a precise instrument, it keeps time extremely well."
"Every day at noon, they shoot a cannon, and then I just set my clocks to that."
"Make sure that your watch is set to the time of the ship."
"A good wristwatch can last a lifetime if it's well cared for."
"It tells me the time, it tells me the depth, it tells me how long I've been on the surface which is the most important thing in a watch."
"There's something very fascinating about timekeeping contraptions."
"It's one of the only watches in the world that can tell the time, date, and city you're in."
"The watch has a unique means of telling the time that the company likes to think of as having your own little solar system on your wrist."
"Plants can tell the time; their buds open and close in a rhythm you could set your clock to."
"And eventually built their calendar, maybe not necessarily at the beginning but they fully understood it over time."
"A marquette is more useful than a sundial because a sundial struggles to track time after the sun goes down, even if the moon is bright."
"God bless you all and until next week, keep on ticking."
"All signs point toward Adam's Calendar being one of the earliest known, if not the oldest, monuments indicating that ancient peoples charted and kept track of time."
"Circadian rhythms are self-generated; they're endogenous to our bodies and they're not precisely 24 hours."
"Oscillators are, kind of, the basis for time keeping."
"The basic idea of oscillations as a mechanism for time keeping is why we really care about it."
"It's often useful for an organism to know where in the morning, night, evening cycle one is."
"It was my alarm on my watch going off."
"Just imagine it, it is your metronome, it's constantly moving, it keeps you in time."
"Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn."
"And you have a digital watch, excellent. So let's put that on our left wrist, and now we can see the time, the temperature, the date, and how long we've survived: 21 hours."
"The railroad began to punctuate life to such an extent that the station clock replaced the church clock as a reference for time."
"A watch is more than a timekeeper; it's a testament to craftsmanship and the relentless march of time."
"Keep track of world time, which I think is really cool."
"Professional human alarm clocks were individuals hired in the past to wake others at a specific time."
"This is how we do it here in South Africa when it's time."
"It's been absolutely awesome. Again, it's been helping with us getting into the routine of our watches."
"Our ancient ancestors had ways of marking time that didn't include clocks and they also had ways of mapping the stars that didn't involve telescopes."
"When we bring you precision in time, we like to do it in style."
"The core idea of the real-time clock is a simple device with an oscillator and a network of series dividers and registers to provide us with a one hertz pulse."
"This method is used to keep time in computers everywhere."
"Real-time function is so desirable in most computing devices and watches, we want to have the peripheral to draw as little power as possible."
"Pulsars are like cosmic lighthouses that rotate several times a second, making them natural clocks."
"The stars and their rising and setting are a great clock and calendar in the sky."
"It's also battery backed so if you needed to keep the time even when the power was removed, you could do so."
"Always great to see the watch run for the first time."
"Stonehenge was used to tell the time, which means Stonehenge is the only clock you can see from space unless you have a clock in your spaceship."
"Antiprime bases are really good. Among them are numbers like 60, used for timekeeping, and 360, used for angle measure."
"This has lost not even 8 seconds in a week, so that is extremely good."
"If you don't have a consistent flow of power from the mainspring to the escapement, your watch is just not going to keep good time."
"The Navi Timer was born, a logical portmanteau of the words navigation and timer."
"It told the time, and it was a sense of fun, a sense of joy."
"The seven-day week comes from the Bible."
"You have your luxury style timepiece that Maurice Lacroix timepiece gives it that taste of extra class."
"Watches became synonymous to certain moments in my life, graduations, big birthdays, etc."
"The universal diffusion of pocket watches contributed further to the acceleration of modern life through instilling a greater sense of punctuality in business and society."
"You've got the 24-hour dial on the inside and you've got the timing bezel on the outside, great combination."
"They're just as much about the novelty as they are about keeping time and about looking cool."
"Citizen. How the world tells time."
"A loomed snowflake hour hand and sharpened pencil minute hand conduct the time telling."
"These stars will stay in line with your watch because the watch is also moving to the exact spin of the earth, which is pretty cool."
"I'm Jory Goodman, The Time Teller, and always remember, I didn't invent time, I just tell it."
"This fine watch... has always reminded me of that, and it is one of my most precious possessions."
"It's pretty darn good considering most mechanicals are going to be closer to plus or minus 15 seconds a day."
"If you do get that Multiband 6 reception at least a couple of times a week, you'll probably never notice that it will drift at all from just being dead-on accurate."
"This watch can track up to three time zones."
"It's a traveler GMT when you put the watch in the first position you can change the local hour without losing your GMT or home time."
"We have a perfectly running watch."
"Practicing your time with a solid metronome that's accurate does make a difference."
"This watch will track the phases of the moon for the next 120 odd years."
"This is a certified chronometer as you can see here, so it's gonna keep really great time."
"The concern about time, who is it that makes watches? Swiss."
"Happy days, new watches, it's a good time, it's a good feeling especially when you're adding such an icon to the collection like this."
"This is the watch I set all my other watches to, this is my apocalypse watch."
"There's a clock with a turtle that bobs in water in a dish, and the turtle floats from hour to hour to tell the time."
"You can track two different time zones with this watch with a 24-hour time zone on the outer bezel."
"Now I have my classy watches here and it's looking really nice."
"Keeping time for 120 years is a mark of excellence."
"It is powered by Japanese quartz movement, so once it's got the time, you've got quite an accurate watch to wear."
"I love the clocks and watches that set themselves."
"You select your time zone, and the clock does the rest."
"It's very important to keep time of critical things and just like throughout your day on the unit."
"The Timex Expedition Scout Chronograph is one of the most impressive mixes of elegant sportiness and functionality."
"The time on this will always be dead-on frickin accurate."
"A worldtimer that is capable of chiming the time correctly for whatever time zone you happen to set it to... it's inherently interesting watchmaking."
"It's a GMT and it has the world map on the dial."
"It's been great, it's very very accurate, at least for a non-chronometer spec watch, I'm quite pleased with it."
"It is always an achievement to do a chronograph."
"It's great to see that I managed to get both of these watches running."
"The clock in the computer was the prime source of time throughout the spacecraft."
"The Rolex Sea-Dweller and the Rolex GMT Master II, nicknamed the Root Beer, are both iconic in their own right."
"This clock was made by Sweets and Reed in 1817 and for centuries, it's been the only clock that tells the correct time in Jamaica."
"We have logical clocks for a lot of our control planes."
"It has a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time."
"You absolutely cannot ignore and down the seconds in any way regardless of price."
"Invent a new way of showing time, make a clock in whatever imaginative crazy way has never been done before."
"The most precise way to measure time is with atomic clocks."
"We will display the timer in seconds in the top left corner."
"This is Seiko's highest end sort of GMT that they make."
"Before we had clocks, people would use the moon phases to know that it had been 29 or 30 days."
"The Daytona has been an incredibly important watch for Rolex ever since."
"In space, there's no day or night, so the necessity for knowing time in a 24-hour context immediately becomes more useful."