Trivia of Time & Timepieces
It is a memorial day in Japan based on the historical event that in 671 Emperor Tenji used a water clock called a rokoku ...
The International Meridian Conference was held in Washington, D.C. in the United States in 1884, and 25 countries attended ...
The International Meridian Conference held in 1884 set the meridian that passes through the Greenwich astronomical ...
A leap year occurs every four years when one day is added to the final day of February ...
The oldest record of "time"is the mention of a water clock in the Nihon-Shoki (the oldest chronicles of Japan). ...
Because sundials need sunshine to measure time, clocks using water and sand, as well as clocks to measure time ...