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- Kids and Teens > School Time > Reference Tools > Calendars
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- A Walk Through Time
An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present.
- Clocks
Kids Almanac explains mechanical and electric clocks, and discusses some famous clocks like London's Big Ben.
- Countdown
Calculate the exact time in days, hours, minutes and seconds from now until your birthday or any other event.
- Daylight Saving Time
Why do we use daylight savings time and who invented it?
- International Standard Date and Time Notation
International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. It helps to avoid confusion caused by the many different national notations.
- Latitude and Longitude
Introduction to latitude and longitude, a way of calculating exactly where you are anyplace on earth and a way to tell time.
- Local Times Around the World
Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.
- Make Your Own Star Clock
Learn how to tell time by finding constellations in the night sky.
- Making a Horizontal Sundial
Learn how to make a sundial. Instructions are for beginners, intermediate, or advanced, and work for either the northern or southern hemispheres.
- Making a Sun Clock
Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time. Learn how to make your own sun clock!
- Time
Just how do we measure time and what has Greenwich England got to do with it?
- Time
Learn about time and how it is measured, a little about the psychology of time, time and relativity, and a little about biorhythms.
- Time Travel
Is time travel possible? See what Carl Sagan and Einstein had to say about time travel in this NOVA special.
- What Time is it!
Gives the current time, synchronized by NIST. Close to 100 different time zones supported, as well as the ability to select the default time zone.
- World Time Converter
Provides online times converter and brief information about GMT/UTC.
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