Clock Lord

When preparing for travel, there are a few items one should always take along in addition to the standard fare like passport, clothes, and cash or traveler’s checks. 

~Sandals, they’re great for walking around hotels, campgrounds, or casual urban settings.

~Travel Alarm Clock, you’ll need one if you want to wake up on time, or check the time during the middle of the night; particularly essential for traveling to different time zones.

~Sun Tan Lotion, even in cold arctic settings, your skin can get burned outside, and sunburns ruin vacations.

~Phrasebook or dictionary, only necessary for traveling abroad, but in such cases, it will be of huge assistance. 

The radio clock, often referenced as the atomic clock, is one of the most accurate clocks on the planet.   These clocks are referred to as atomic clocks because their time is based on radio waves intercepted from actual atomic clocks, and if synchronized correctly, are accurate to the second.  Once each day, (usually during the nighttime) a radio clock will attempt to receive a signal broadcast from an atomic clock, and adjust its time accordingly.  As atomic clocks are accurate down to miniscule fractions of a second, for casual use, the radio clock is much more accurate than most timepieces. 

There are several longwave radio transmitters around the world that broadcast an atomic clock signal, in the US, WWVB, a true atomic clock, is located in Fort Collins, Colorado and broadcasts a signal receivable throughout North America.

In modern society the easiest way to tell time is to look at your watch, phone or car clock. But it wasn’t always that easy. Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians used sundials to tell time since 1500 BC. Humans may have been telling time even earlier in history by studying shadow lengths. Sundials may have also existed in China in ancient times.

Sundials were introduced into Greece around 560 BC. The Historian Herodotus, recorded that sundials allowed the Greeks to study the science of geometry, mathematics and astronomy. Later, the Romans adopted the sundial from the Greeks.

A modern-day analog clock is the closest cousin to the sundial. Analog clocks indicate time from angles, using a circular scale of 12 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds.

Because sundials are associated with passing time, it has become popular in today’s society to inscribe mottos which reflecting the instability of the world and the inevitability of death into sundials. A popular inscription is, “do not kill time, for it will surely kill thee.”

Is there any truth to the idea that people tend to act crazier during a full moon? Many people say there is. Think about this: the word lunatic is derived from the word Lunar (Moon). Researchers have found that the hormonal reactions to increased positive ions in the air, otherwise known as the Full Moon Effect, can cause hyperactivity, depression, violent behavior, road rage, migraines and asthma.It’s also worth noting that the Moon rules the tides, and since the human body is 70% water it’s possible the changes in the Moon could affect people strangely. A woman who used to work in a mental institution said the patents got more restless during a full moon. Policemen also report they are much busier during s full moon.

Those who have a history of acting funny during a full moon should invest in a moon phase clock. These types of clocks show a diagram of the Moon’s position each day. Maybe some people can’t control their behavior, but a least a moon phase clock allows them to prepare for it.