International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. It helps to avoid confusion caused by the many different national notations. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
Gives the current time, synchronized by NIST. Close to 100 different time zones supported, as well as the ability to select the default time zone. www.whattimeisit.com
Benjamin Franklin first called for the government to tinker with clock hours in the 1780s. But it wasn't until World War I that the United States adopted daylight-saving time as a way to get more efficiency out of the day. "Seize the Daylight" Author Da www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4572036