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LESS than a week: that is how much time the Hungarian army's last conscripts have to spend in the barracks before the institution of compulsory military service ceases to exist.
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Washington Post staff writer Charles Babington will be online to discuss how the earlier Daylight Saving Time this year may be affecting your computer or handheld device.
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Hans Seitz has sold engraved pewter plates and cuckoo clocks to U.S. soldiers for years. Now he fears some of his best customers may be going if two U.S. divisions pull out of Germany.
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Low-power, rice-grain-sized device should be accurate to within one second per 126 years.
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These watches may look as though theyâre from a future era, but the LED-based timepieces could be just the thing to adorn your wrist and compliment your I-LUV-UNIX T-shirt.â¦
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Careful with that antique clock. It could pose a mercury hazard. The silvery, skittering, and toxic liquid can be found in some antiques. Mirrors can be backed with mercury and tin; Clock pendulums might be weighted with embedded vials of mercury; and barometers, thermometers and lamps may have mercury in their bases for ballast.
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Earlier than usual switch to daylight saving time causes some snags, but no major disruptions are reported.
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A sigh, a glance at a wristwatch, a 5 o'clock shadow.
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Lancope, Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch&#8482;  System, the most widely used Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and  response solution, announced today that StealthWatch has been approved  for the U.S. Army Information Assurance Approved Products List (AIAAPL).
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By Phillip Ramati, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Mar. 9--The annual spring-forward ritual is coming a little earlier this year.   Traditionally, most people set their clocks ahead one hour near the end of March.
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The Coast Guard will begin testing in February a new way to prevent terrorism on the seas: radio receivers on weather buoys ringing the U.S. coast that can track ships long before they reach ports.
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At NIST's Time and Frequency lab in Colorado, scientists build precision clocks from elements like mercury and ytterbium. The instruments harness general relativity to detect a range of conditions and situations, from heart defects to subterranean oil fields. Just don't ask them what time it is.
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The new DST (daylight-saving time) is drawing near. Do you think you're ready? Run down this checklist to be sure.
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How the value of a watch became detached from its role as a timekeeper.
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Key quote &quot;It is a little too late in the day for Mr Hoon to look concerned for the welfare of the Scottish soldiers, especially the Black Watch.
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All our devices, from cellphones and computers to satellites and dvrs, depend on super-precise timekeeping. Tour one building in Boulder, Colorado, and you'll see some of the key timekeepers in the world.
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Researchers are developing an RFID-enabled watch system to help the memory-challenged find their stuff. But making sure it doesn't track too much is a big privacy concern. By Michael Bradbury.