Time Change

For an extra hour of Halloween, set your clocks back one hour tonight. (Thanks, David!)

Sunday Breakfast

So, when can I use this coupon? (via Bad Menu)

Where Time Doesn't Act Right

We think of time as a constant, sometimes the only constant, in our lives. It's true that time seems to pass much more quickly as we get older, but that's just a matter of human perception. The way we measure time varies from place to place and from culture to culture, so we manage to confuse ourselves about it. Human perception of time can't always be trusted. But objective time isn't always constant, either. Ot's mind boggling how time itself can vary once you get away from the earth, whether it's merely on a mountaintop or in outer space. Chill Dude Explains gives us a list of ten anomalies in time, from the mundane and easily understood to the cosmic. There are no time machines here, just real examples of time distortion, or at least distortions in the way we understand time. The mispronounced word in the this video is Byzantine. 

The World's Strangest Time Zones

The logical way to divide a spinning planet into time zones would be to draw 24 latitudinal lines on the globe, leaving equal areas for each time zone. But that doesn't work for people who live with real life geography, national borders, and human nature. Countries did not adopt standard time all at once, and politics plays a part. So we have some extra time zones that set their clocks a half-hour different from their neighbors, and some places that could use more time zones. RealLifeLore explains some of the weirder anomalies in global time. (via Digg)

Limited Time

From Married to the Sea.

Rock

Looking at someone, or something, outside your own consciousness gives you a really different perspective on time and space. Cosmic. This is the latest comic from Randall Munroe at XKCD. Now back to your regular life.

Time Traveler

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The Language of Time

Time is often thought of as the fourth dimension. Once an object has length, width, and depth, it also exists over time. We talk about time, well, all the time, but since we operate in the here and now, we often use three-dimensional language. If you speak English, you probably know that the future is ahead and the past is behind us. Timelines go from the past on the left to the present (and sometimes the future) on the right. Whether the future is looking up or looking down has nothing to do with when or how fast it comes. 

But that isn't always the case. If your first language is something besides English, you may think of the flow of time differently, and use different words for its direction. Since time is the fourth dimension, it honestly has no direction at all. Yet we adapt language to communicate the concept anyway. There's no "right" way to do this, outside of being aware of the time orientation of the person you're talking to. Dr. Erica Brozovsky explains how some other cultures talk about the flow of time.

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Reminder

Time change tonight eh. Does your area participate and if they do, does it affect you much?

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— Grampa Jody (@jodywagner.bsky.social) March 7, 2026 at 11:37 AM

Yes, I will be able to sleep until 5AM instead of getting up at 4AM. But I am also meeting Dr. Dolittle and Dr. Engineer for lunch, half way between here and Nashville. Our meeting place is in a different time zone, and takes a couple of hours to get there. This may get confusing.

March

This calendar is strictly for 2026. Brought to you by Matt Shirley.

Friday

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Meet Me Here

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What a Year

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The Wild World of Time Travel Truthers

We've become obsessed with the concept of time travel. It's a great area to explore in science fiction, setting up all kinds of possible plots and paradoxes. It also feeds into our desire for a do-over in our own lives. And it holds out the possibility of meeting great people and doing great things that are only possible in the past or in the future. However, some people take it more seriously than others. Not Exactly Normal looks at how time travel entered our culture and grabbed us, never to let go. (via Digg) 

One Word a Day

Henry Brown took the "photo a day" idea and made it speak. Every day during 2025, he spoke to the camera, and then compiled it into a coherent essay about the passage of time in 365 video clips. The clips are not all in sequential order, but you can follow the times of the year mostly by the length of his hair and the background weather. In some places, there is more than one word for the day. Whatever you think of the finished product, you have to admire his dedication to the project. If the effects of the video obscured what he actually said, you'll find a transcript at Laughing Squid. 

The Hardest

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Lost in Time

I've noticed that some younger folks who only know digital clocks tend to think of hours as 100 minutes. I bet they don't understand 90 degree angles, either. (via Bored Panda)

Wait Here

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A Stopped Clock

From 1885. Just think, they eventually got all the clocks and watches going again, but they still didn't know what time it was. (via Undine)