A great many phenomena in both Nature and human history follow cyclical patterns, while others form waves. Author David Hackett Fischer (The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History) described the difference between cycles and waves: As Fischer…
We checked Lihue’s January sunrise and sunset figures to see what advancing Hawaii’s clocks would actually look like. On January 15, sunrise is about 7:18 a.m., and sunset is around 6:15 p.m. If Hawaii adopted the one-hour advance, those would become…
On Halloween this year, the sun will set in Portland at 5:33 p.m. One day later, for no good reason, sunset on Sunday will occur 61 minutes earlier after a return to “standard time.” Here in Maine, there is clear and robust support…
By Brandon Choghri and John Marchesan Posted October 29, 2026 3:13 pm. When Canadians wake up on Sunday, the simple question of ‘what time is it’ may not have an easy answer. Clocks are set to roll back one hour at 2 a.m.
A special feature on chrononutrition was published in the Japan Dietetic Association magazine. Chrononutrition is a field of study that focuses not only on "what to eat" but also on "when to eat." I have been interested in this for…
If you work with colleagues across multiple time zones, you're probably doing mental math more than you should. Here's a practical guide to making this faster and less error-prone. Most tools default to showing your local time. You have to…
Ask five developers what "now" means on a server. You will get five answers. All of them will say UTC. None of them will mention skew. That gap is where the bugs live. A token rejected as "not yet valid.
I track time differently depending on the kind of work I'm doing. Here's how I've broken it down and what tools I use for each. For focused writing, coding, or analysis, I hide all clocks. I use a 25-minute timer…
Remote work has created a time zone problem that office work never had at scale. When everyone is in the same building, "send this to John" doesn't require calculating what time zone John is in. When John is in Seoul…
When a Codex usage-limit reset shows up on X, the time string is usually not in your timezone. It says things like “by midnight PST,” “before 10am PST,” or “landing by EOD.” That is fine if everyone on the team lives…
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