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Time and Date - Current local times around the world for 512 cities, worldwide

Calendar Zone Provides links to ancient or obscure calendar systems, religious calendars, perpetual calendars, astronomic book of days, and more. Includes holidays around the world.

Perpetual Calendar Provides the day of the week for any date in the past, present, or future.

Calendars through the Ages Provides the astronomical basis and the history of the calendar. Discover the origins of the calendar systems. Included are the Chinese, Christian, Julian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Gregorian, French, Future, Mayan, and Roman calendars.

Earth Calendar Click "Today" to view a list of today's holidays around the world, or search by keyword. Tabs allow browsing by country, religions, or date. Includes dates of new and full moons

10,000 Year Calendar

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Conversion Factors, Time Automatically converts measurements of time. Includes years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

dMarie Time Capsule:On this Day in History... Enter a date and find out the headlines, TV shows, new toys, top books and even how much thing cost during that time.

Internet Clocks, Calendars and Countdowns

The Official U.S. Time Accurate to within 1 second. Pick a time zone in the the United States or its territories. The official U.S. government time is displayed in large, easy-to-read numerals, along with the coordinated universal time and a world map displaying where the sun is shining.

Take Our Web Geological Time Machine A chart of geologic time frames from the Precambrian period to today linked to descriptions of each period often including stratigraphy, ancient life, localities, and tectonics. From the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley.

Today in History Enter a month and day. Then scroll down the years to find out what happened on this day in history.

A Walk Through Time: The Evolution of Time Measurement Through the Ages "A descriptive look at the history of timekeeping from ancient to modern methods." Features illustrations and information on sun clocks and water clocks, mechanical clocks and quartz clocks, and atomic beam clocks.

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