Time

We uise time for tae sequence events, for tae compare thair durations an the intervals atween thaim, an for tae quantifee the speed that objects muives at.

For tae meisur time, we can uise onything that repeats itsel raigular. Ae ensaumple is the dawin o a new day (as the Yird birls oabot its axis). Twa mair is the phases o the muin (as it birls arboot the Yird), an the saisons o the year (as the Yird birls aboot the Sun). E'en in auncient times, fowk developit calendars for tae keep track o the nummer o days in a year. Thay developit sundials that uised the muivin shaidaes cuist by the sun throu the day for tae meisur times smawer nor a day an aw. The day, gey an accurate knocks can meisur times less nor a billiont o a seicont. The study o time meisurment is horology.

The SI (Systeme Internationale) unit o time is ae seicont, written as s.

In Einsteinian physics, time an space can be jyned intae the ae concept. See space-time continuum.

Time is cawd "Temps" (pronouncit "[t̪ɑ]"in French), an it daes come frae Latin "tempus". It haes gien the English wird "tense" that means "grammatical time".

Units o time

1 millennium = 1000 year
1 century = 100 year
1 decade = 10 year
1 lustrum = 5 year
1 year = 12 month ≈ 365 days (366 days in leap years)
1 month ≈ 28 tae 31 days ≈ 4 week
1 fortnicht = 14 days = 2 week
1 week = 7 days
1 day = 24 oor
1 oor = 60 meenit
1 meenit = 60 seicont
1 seicont = SI base unit o time
1 milliseicont = 1/1,000 seicont
1 microseicont = 1/1,000,000 seicont
1 nanoseicont = 1/1,000,000,000 seicont
1 picoseicont = 1/1,000,000,000,000 o a seicont
1 femtoseicont = 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 o a seicont
1 attoseicont = 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 o a seicont

Things tae meisur time

Knock
Oorgless
Stapwatch
Sundial
Circadian rhythm

Time o day

Warld Knock
U.S. Naval Observatory Archived 2010-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
Hexadecimal Time Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine