Traditional Chinese timekeeping refers to the time standards for divisions of the day used in China until the introduction of the Shixian calendar in...

S.-China Institute collected stamps from 56 jurisdictions. Chinese astrology Chinese calendar correspondence table Traditional Chinese timekeeping Burmese...

The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated...

(2005). Zhongguo ren de sui shi wen hua 中國人的歲時文化 [Timekeeping of the Chinese culture] (in Chinese). 岳麓書社. pp. 195. ISBN 978-7-80665-620-4. "数九从哪一天开始到哪一天结束...

hours of usage hour hand or hour, a arm on a clock Chinese hour in traditional Chinese timekeeping Canonical hours or liturgical hours, divisions of the...

zodiac is very important in traditional Chinese culture and exists as a reflection of Chinese philosophy and culture. Chinese folkways held that one's personality...

smartphones and smartwatches have become the most common timekeeping devices. The most accurate timekeeping devices in practical use today are atomic clocks,...

down. Example cities across the globe @000 BEATS midnight: Traditional Chinese timekeeping – 1 kè = 10 'beats' Metric time New Earth Time Unix time at...

adapting the European mechanical clock technology to the needs of traditional Japanese timekeeping. Clocks have existed in Japan since the mid-7th century AD...

with oscillating timekeepers like balance wheels. Traditionally, in horology (the study of timekeeping), the term clock was used for a striking clock, while...

interactions of the heavenly stems and earthly branches used in traditional Chinese timekeeping and the sexagenary cycle. Although they do not correspond to...

Incense in China is traditionally used in a wide range of Chinese cultural activities including religious ceremonies, ancestor veneration, traditional medicine...

(simplified Chinese: 香钟; traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping device that originated...

embolism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or month into some calendar years...

reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to prehistoric times, at least as old as the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical...

months and the twelve traditional shichen (時辰; shíchén), periods of one-twelfth of a day used in Traditional Chinese timekeeping and astrology Tajikistan...

accuracy comparable to today's standards of timekeeping, the water clock was a commonly used timekeeping device for millennia, until it was replaced by...

number of stars used to count the passage of night. The most precise timekeeping device of the ancient world was the water clock, or clepsydra, one of...

from Switzerland. Citizen launched the world's first multi-band atomic timekeeping watch in 1993 and has remained a pioneer of this field. Synchronized...

of ancient China witnessed many advancements in Chinese science and technology, with various developments in woodblock printing, timekeeping, mechanical...

reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to prehistoric times at least as old as the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical...

train that operates the mechanism that rings the bell in addition to the timekeeping train that measures the passage of time. The most basic sort of striking...

...} {60, 60, 24, 7} in timekeeping {60, 60, 24, 30 (or 31 or 28 or 29), 12, 10, 10, 10} in timekeeping (12, 20) traditional English monetary system (£sd)...

golden age in Chinese history, and had a permanent impact on Chinese identity in later periods. The majority ethnic group of modern China refer to themselves...

calendar Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement Roman timekeeping Traditional Chinese timekeeping Japanese clock Sar-Shalom, Rahamim (1984). She'harim...

The Drum Tower of Beijing, or Gulou (traditional Chinese: 鼓樓; simplified Chinese: 鼓楼; pinyin: Gǔlóu), is situated at the northern end of the central axis...

One of the main functions of astronomy was for the purpose of timekeeping. The Chinese used a lunisolar calendar, but as the cycles of the Sun and the...

Saros (astronomy) – Cycles used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon Timekeeping on Mars – Proposed approaches to tracking date and time on the planet...

linkage in mechanical watches and clocks that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing...

The following is a list of timekeeping terminology in the isiXhosa language. The traditional isiXhosa names for months of the year poetically come from...