My Yearly Post About Time

A couple years ago I wrote about different calendar and time systems. Interestingly, I have had my wristwatch in UTC since I wrote that post. Changing to use UTC was not as hard as I imagined. I still use it. Last week I heard about another interesting time concept, the 10,000 year clock. Their implementation is a bit crazy and useless, I thought, but the bigger thought behind it is actually interesting. 10,000-Year Clock I listened to a report on NPR about a guy (Danny Hillis) who is building a huge clock that is designed to run for 10,000 years. The whole story got crazier (not in a good sense)…