HOROLOGY - The Index


Horology is the Science of Time , Timekeepers ( Clocks, Watches ) and Timekeeping


Internet sites and resources relating to

Time (as such) and Time Systems:


Time as such:

  1. The Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity meeting held at the Getty Center on Feb 8-10 produced some remarkable insights into the future uses of digital technologies and their impact on the documentation of cultural heritage

Alternative Views of Time:

  1. Metric Time page by Lyle Zapato(
  2. Metric Time
  3. ... Metric Time (Christoan Peritore)
  4. ... another Metric Time site
  5. ... and some call decimal time Geek TIme(link may be dead)
  6. The Chrons time system
  7. Wilford M. Shiells Sytem of telling Time (Startime)
  8. Natures 4-day harmonic timecube
  9. STime, a base 9 time system
  10. Rod's Time System
  11. WORLD time
  12. The Metric Time Timering
  13. 28-hour time
  14. Bill Collins Metric Time - "(One or two proposals)" Uses 20:100:20 time format
  15. Metric Time - Uses a 25h/100m/100s format plus has nonstandard years
  16. Grand Admiral Petry's Metric Time Page - eccentric
  17. Metric Time For Mars - Proposal for metric time system to be used by martian colonists.
  18. "METRIC TIME HOME PAGE" - Aussie MT site
  19. Universal Time

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