Welcome to our Timekeeping Articles section!

There's a lot more to timekeeping, looking at a watch and saying: "yep, that's the time." The idea of a uniform day of 24 hours is a relatively new phenomenon. Most cultures marked time from either sun-up to sun-up or sun-down to sun-down. Except for the Spring and Autumn Equinox, the day length always varied.

Now that we have imposed a uniform day-length of 24 hours, in many cases we're still struggling with understanding the concept of time zones. For all our international sophistication, there are many aspects where modern software timekeeping and scheduling applications are just plain wrong.

Here in the Articles Section we talk about Modern TimeKeeping Errors (and use our favorite example of tracking a package from Taiwan to Portland, Maine). We also talk about Solstices and Equinoxes and a little thing like trying to get the year length right. (The current Gregorian calendar will ultimately fail. Even though its failure is not for many centuries to come, a well designed calendar is heavily dependant upon an understanding of the heavens, and if its done right, should not fail or need to be tweaked at all.)