Researchers report in today's Science that our internal clock, or circadian rhythm, ticks on a precise 24 hour, 11 minute schedule.
Davis worked out a detailed schedule for the gathering on the weekend of 23-24 July, including the precise hour she planned to slip into a coma, and shared her plans with her guests in the invitation.
Similarly, with our library book, assigned to us once a week for our "free-time" reading, and with the precise hour of our weekly bath (which we took under a canvas shift, so as not to have to see our bodies), we occupied the station to which God or some Madame in her infinite wisdom had seen fit to call us.
Last Tuesday, while Hitler was berating his generals for their lack of faith in his ultimate triumph — "dramatic irony stuff," Mr. Collinson said — he was busy putting the finishing touches on a marketing schedule for Daily Information, the magazine where he holds down a job while pumping out up to 40 war-related tweets a day, timed as much as possible to the precise hour.
She knew the precise hour when Yugoslavia would be bombed, days in advance".
It did not go unnoticed, for example, that at the precise hour on Wednesday evening that the police released damning new details of the investigation against him (prosecutors say envelopes of cash were passed to him for personal use), Mr. Olmert made a speech in Tel Aviv that started with his hopes for the Syria talks, thereby upstaging the police on the evening news.
The people here followed the election so closely that they remember the precise hour last weekend, on Saturday, when the vote count suddenly changed, and Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's president, went from trailing badly to winning with a suspiciously thin margin of victory.
But if you are hungry for details and data, if you want to consider the size of the stone that covered the empty tomb or the precise hour that Jesus' lived anew, well, then you are out of luck.
I've defaulted to sunrise as the time of birth, as this is the correct fallback method to use when the precise hour and minute are in question or unknown.
When kept in total darkness, a mouse with a normal clock keeps a precise 23.7-hour cycle of alternate rest and running.
