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This will be our article three. Ben will get to this when he has time, unless someone else wants to jump in and lead the content of this.
- Timezones
- They are not always on the hour
- Difference time offset and timezone
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- Calendars
- Historical calendars are very weird (kings just removing or adding days when they felt like it)
- The calendar we use, and its extensions: Gregorian calendar, proleptic Gregorian calendar
- Other calendars: Jewish calendar, Chinese lunar calendar (?), Hijiri
- Other calendars: Jewish calendar, Chinese lunar calendar (?), Hijiri, Japanese calendar (?)
- Primarily used for establishing holidays, but not really for common use any more (with the exception of China...?)
- Computer clocks
- CPU time vs. wall time