Our modern calendar

The LLOC blog, In Custia Legis, has a great post today on how our calendar was corrected for "drift". I'm sure we all vaguely remember that our current calendar is referred to as the Gregorian Calendar. The story behind it is in the post linked below.

http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/01/inter-gravissimas-or-why-the-pope-is-never-late-for-tea/

Fall back

Remember to set your clocks back an hour this weekend. Daylight savings time ends at 2:00 AM Sunday morning.

Time change

From the Oregon Legal Blog: Clocks Change November 6, 2011

Time and date lines

Here's an interesting post from the fine folks at the Law Library of Congress.

The Legality of Time Travel

May 10th, 2011 by Kelly Buchanan

OK, so this is not the “Science Fiction and the Law”-type post that may be suggested by the title, but it’s probably only slightly less geeky! It actually arose from an interesting headline that I saw in one of my news feeds last week: “Samoa looks at moving back to the future.” After reading the story I started doing some more research on the International Date Line and the ability for countries to determine their own time zones.

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Spring forward

Don't forget to move your clocks forward an hour before you go to sleep Saturday night. This weekend marks the start of Daylight Savings Time.

Short speeches

This article on law.com ties in with several sessions I attended at AALL this year. The sessions were talking more about visual presentations (aka PowerPoint), stressing less is more, and staying on each slide for 20 or fewer seconds.

Brevity Is One Key to Internet-Era Speaking

Joey Asher
Fulton County Daily Report
July 21, 2010

The last 50 years in public speaking have been the JFK/Ronald Reagan era. The next 50 will be the YouTube/talk radio/iPhone era.

To be a great speaker in the future, you must learn to connect with audiences conditioned by the modern media. (cont)

Time Change

Time change this weekend - remember to fall back an hour.

Daylight Savings Time

Remember: Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend, so turn your clocks forward an hour before you turn in Saturday night.

Daylight Savings Time Ends This Weekend

Daylight Savings Time ends this year at 2:00 a.m. Sunday, November 2, 2008. For a short history and look ahead for dates up to 2015, NASA has a good page.

Being Wired or Being Tired

Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload
Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload.
Ariadne
Issue 56 July 2008

Sarah Houghton-Jan of Librarian in Black blog fame, wrote an article on information overload, pointing out that people started complaining about overload after the invention of the printing press. She pulls together quite a few tidbits about managing information and time.

Reminder: Daylight Savings Time

Remember to spring forward an hour this weekend.

Brief history of DST from the US Naval Observatory: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html

Law governing: U.S. Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX - Standard Time (link to LII)