GOD666 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Many of you will soon be adjusting your clocks either one hour ahead or one hour back, depending on your location. And I am yet again reminded that no one really knows for sure what year it is. Arguably the majority of the world recognizes it as the year 2,010 (2010). But this is completely based on the religious belief on when a single "religious being" lived & died. But this of course take out of count, the many years before this "believed" being lived or died. Upon further reflection GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, established since 1884) has been replaced with UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, established since 1972). And it is worth noting that this UTC is based partly with UT (Universal Time), to which there are arguably 6 version of (UT1, UT0, UT1R, UT2, UT2R, UTC). On top of all this... Not every county in the world adjust their clocks back & forth. Some keep a continued time all year around. To make up for this lost time, we of course have added the idea of a "leap year" in which every 4 years we add an extra day. But if you do the math, that "leap year" does not fully account for every last second & as time continues to add... Those seconds become minutes, hours, days.... And of course, what about all the years before the calender included a "leap year".... So what time is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 The only thing that is ever certain with respect to time is LAN (local apparent noon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupik Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Does it really matters what time it really is, or in what year are we on? Life goes on, without any hitch on my side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kami- Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 20:15 here in the UK, 21:15 in Sweden, 04:15 in Beijing :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCA Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Does it really matters what time it really is, or in what year are we on? Life goes on, without any hitch on my side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Let's have some fun then According to Judaism the year is 5771 The Christian calendar says it's 2010 And the Muslim calendar says it's 1431 AH hmmmm, who to believe I bet just about every major religion has it as a different year, this can be fun :) *edit* According to the Hindus it's 3102 BCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaborka Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 I do software devt for an airline. The schedules are set in local time relative to each airport. Daily operational data are kept in UTC. Dispatchers can flip their displays between local and Zulu as needed. Before .NET 3.5 I had to code all the timezone translations manually. 3.5 introduced the TimeZone class which provided the necessary TZ conversions, but it still lacks a fully TZ-aware DateTime class. I had to write a custom class for that, to encapsulate the conversions and provide code for elapsed time calculations. Major PITA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylar0 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Time is a human invention. So question is invalid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmz Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 It's Hammer Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOD666 Posted November 6, 2010 Author Share Posted November 6, 2010 Time is a human invention. So question is invalid. I have under good authority, the concept goes back much further :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Those missed seconds get added into leap seconds and leap minutes. They do micro adjustments every so often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylar0 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 I have under good authority, the concept goes back much further :shifty: Lol no you dont sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+devHead Subscriber² Posted November 6, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted November 6, 2010 Arguably the majority of the world recognizes it as the year 2,010 (2010). But this is completely based on the religious belief on when a single "religious being" lived & died. But this of course take out of count, the many years before this "believed" being lived or died. Actually, most historians today use C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E (Before Common Era) for dates. These dates actually aren't based on Jesus birth, since he was actually born (using 'pivotal' dates, that is, dates attested to and confirmed from both Biblical and secular sources) in 2 B.C.E. Using B.C. ('Before Christ') and A.D. (Anno Domini, Latin for 'Year of the Lord') are really not used anymore since they really aren't historically accurate. As far as Leap Years are concerned, there are other safetys imposed to keep run away leap years from messing us up. If you'll remember, 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 wasn't. Why? Because only years beginning centuries that are equally divisible by 4 are made leap years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell-In-A-Handbasket Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 the only real number should be when the Earth was created, and not when Humans decided to keep count or since the Big Bang, as Humans are not the center of everything so about 20GY ( or 80GY ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Veteran Posted November 6, 2010 Veteran Share Posted November 6, 2010 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanLeto Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 When it's light it's daytime when it's dark it's night time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy2004 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 its pedo bear time !!! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarkhy Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 you forgot the dinosaurs age, time didnt started with the birth of jesus, dalai lama, velociraptors, or even when the earth was created. The most correct answer for the time in our universe is year 13.7 billion... but then again we have einstein theory of relativity, so the time we live in this planet is different of the time we live when flying on a plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tews Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Its time to take a nap! :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotoxic_hazard_835 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 It's crime fighting time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakem1 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 What the hell is UTC and since when has it replaced GMT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentaal Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Depends on when you start counting the time. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 My PC says it is 22:07 on the 06/11/2010 I believe my PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DConnell Member Posted November 6, 2010 Member Share Posted November 6, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dknm Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 That's one mighty question to ask . Better yet , it bakes another question : as a quantifying unit , was its measure constant during human existence ? Which time is accurate ? :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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