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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319599083

ISBN (eBook): 9783319599090

Full citation:

Elisa Felicitas Arias, Ludwig Combrinck, Pavel Gabor, Catherine Hohenkerk (eds), The science of time 2016, Berlin, Springer, 2017

The science of time 2016

Contents

Cosmic time

from the big bang to the eternal future

Chris Impey

1-13

Bond time

the electric method of time recording

Donald Saff

45-45

These are not your mother's sundials

or, time and astronomy's authority

Sara J. Schechner

49-73

From computer time to legal civil time

iana tz, ietf tzdist, etc.

Steve Allen

125-125

Activities of time and frequency metrology at nict

optical and microwave frequency standards and their remote comparisons

T. Ido, H. Hachisu, Y. Hanado

151-157

The leap second debate

rational arguments vs. unspoken unease

Pavel Gabor

267-275

How to talk to the public about the leap second?

the experience of the IERS central bureau

Wolfgang R. Dick

277-286

Common calendar

fixed-epoch deterministic utc-based local timescales

Brooks Harris

293-317

Time critical

contesting the measure of the now

Daniel Wiley

365-366

Liberating clocks

exploring other possible futures

Michelle Bastian

369-377

Are clocks enough?

science, philosophy, and time

Adam Frank

391-392

Time warped

photography, history, and temporality

Kris Belden-Adams

393-394