43 rare clocks stolen from Israel found in France

Timepieces from a priceless collection stolen from a Jerusalem museum were discovered in French bank vaults, police said Wednesday, more than two decades after the heist.

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Tech alarm clocks ring more than bells

I used to get up at the crack of dawn, work out or make sure my to-do list was in order before my first cuppa joe.

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Steadier lasers could make best atomic clock yet

A clock that loses just one second every 60 million years might seem tough to beat. Nevertheless, conventional atomic clocks, which use caesium ions, could soon be replaced by those featuring arrays of strontium atoms as the gold standard for time keeping.

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Once again, the old calendar on the wall says it's time to change the clock, trading an hour's sleep for more evening sunshine. Most Americans will set their clocks forward one hour this weekend.

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At first glance, it doesn't look like a clock. There's the giant fanged insect on top. And instead of hands, it uses glowing blue LEDs to tell the time. . . .

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And they told me, "Time wait's for no man." Now I want to know why the earth is slowing down...is it going to stop?

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We sit on it during the day, sleep on it at night, eat off it and even look at our reflection in it - but how much thought do we really give our furniture and rooms full of it?

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The problem is that the Earth is very gradually slowing down, continually throwing the two timescales out of synch, so every so often, a "leap second" has to be tacked on to the atomic clock.

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Interesting facts about time zones around the world.

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At 2:00 a.m. local on Sunday, most of the United States (except Hawaii and Arizona) will leave daylight saving time behind and fall back an hour to standard time.

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It's gold, features six patented inventions … and has fangs. With video!

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If you feel cheated a losing an hour in bed tomorrow as the hours goes forward, spare a thought for cuckoo clock collector Roman Piekarski - who is spending all weekend changing the time on his 600 clocks.

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As Britain prepares to put its clocks forward for the summer, Neil Tweedie looks at the reasons behind the annual ritual

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For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, reduces energy use. But a unique situation in Indiana provides evidence challenging that view: Springing forward may actually waste energy.

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"BOULDER, Colorado -- The best timepiece in the world lives deep in a '60s-style concrete government building, where it resembles nothing so much as a teenager's science-fair project: a jumble of polished lenses and mirrors converging on a gleaming silver cylinder, all protecte …

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An elegant gold and rock-crystal pocket watch, made by Abraham Louis Breguet for Marie Antoinette, has been retrieved a quarter of a century after it was stolen along with 39 other priceless timepieces from a Jerusalem museum.

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Back to winter time

With the clocks changing back an hour this weekend, many people will be saddened at the lost daylight in the evenings and those dark winter nights ahead...however, while some dread it and others look forward to cosy nights by the fireside, new research shows that we're more in tu …

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Bulova Grandfather Clock Setup Instructions

We actually come to your home to set up the clock for you (this is a free service). But if you want to do it yourself, here are some basic "How to" instructions for setting up a [tag]Bulova Grandfather Clock[/tag] on your own.

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President Hugo Chavez wants Venezuelan clocks turned back half an hour and he wants it done in record time -- next Monday.

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After more than 80 years of being able to set your watches with a phone call, AT&T is discontinuing users' being able to call in to find out the exact time.

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Clocks made from hard disk drives, ZIP, PCB, DVD disk or Nintendo? Why not?

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One of the most difficult things we had to agree on for our home remodel was the alarm clock. The black plastic thing from Target wasn't really doing it for us anymore. I wanted a sleek, modern form factor. My husband wanted the old-school red lettering.

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A little fun for a change.... Welcome to the Death Clock(TM), the Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away... second by second. Like the hourglass of the Net, the Death Clock will remind you just how short life is.

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Spring Forward, Fall to Pieces?

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But what about your computer? Or the clock in your cell phone? Or let's say there's a stock you're hoping to buy online just before the market closes Monday.

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Clocky is a funny/ingenious/annoying alarm clock that will roll off your nightstand and find a place to hide if you don't wake up to kill its alarm.

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Why a leading expert on the history of timekeeping set out to create a sundial unlike anything the world has ever seen.

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A majority of people in Britain, except for Scotland, now favour switching to double summertime, which would give lighter evenings and darker mornings through the year, according to a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph today.

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