• Hours are traditionally not installed in the premises of the casino.
• Traditional motion-hour shooter “clockwise” is used to indicate the direction of circular motion. However, there are hours in which the hands move “counterclockwise”.
• Big Ben – the name of the tower, and 13-ton bell that rings inside.
• At various stages of development of civilization, mankind has used the sun, stars, water, fire, sand, wheels, mechanical, electrical, electronic and atomic clocks.
• Atomic clocks have an error in 1 second in six million years.
• One second – this is 9,192,631,770 vibrations of the radiation cesium-133 atom.
• Watches come in a clockwise direction – left to right – because it is in this direction has been the shadow of the sundial.
• The oldest sundial relating to the XV century. BC, discovered in Egypt.
• There are 24 time zones.
• Number of leap years (with an added day of Feb. 29) should be a multiple of four. There is an exception: years divisible by 100 are not leap year. There is an exception to the exception: years divisible by 400, a leap year. 1900 was a leap year, and 2000 – was.
• Are leap seconds.
• Almost all of progressive mankind (except the U.S.) does not use the designation AM (ante meridiem – before noon) and PM (post meridiem – after noon), as there is a lot of confusion (quick answer to the question: what used to – 1 AM or 12 AM?) .
• There are: millennium, century, five-year plan, year, quarter, month, decade, week, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond, microsecond, nanosecond, picosecond, femtosecond, and so on.
• Nobody knows exactly why the year is divided into 12 months (this division does not correspond to the lunar or solar calendar). It is believed that the division of hours by 60 minutes due to the Babylonian number system, based on which it was not 10 but 60.
• Although in one minute 60 seconds in one second 1000 milliseconds.
• Wrong to say “how much time?”. It should say only “the hour?”.
• 24 hours of sidereal time was 23 hours 56 minutes 4.091 seconds mean solar time.
• On the dial with Roman numerals the fourth hour is almost always denoted as IIII, and almost never used IV.
• “Error 2000″ did not exist. At least, nothing special has happened to those who did not spend money on its removal.

Hours By The Numbers

Today the world produces more than 1 billion timers in the year. Of these, about 60% accounted for by Japan. The most expensive watches – Swiss, so the Swiss company, giving the Japanese on the number of hours incurred on revenue significantly ahead of them.

Most were released hours – Quartz with arrows. The share of purely electronic clock with LCD indicator time low – about 10%. The world’s largest buyer of hours are the United States. They accounted for 15% of Swiss exports, 25% – Japanese and 26% – Hong Kong.

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