Sentence examples for timekeeping we have from inspiring English sources
But in our detailed timekeeping we have discarded the Sun, Moon and stars, along with almost every other source of enchantment, and now rely on an arbitrary standard for measuring the pace of change: the rate of radiation of an atom of caesium.
"One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the time zone system was designed to make things simple, but as soon as politics gets involved things get messy, and what we have now is all over the place," said David Rooney, curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich.
Here in New York, we have been experiencing a long-running privatization adventure in which an attempt to streamline employee timekeeping that was supposed to have cost the city $63 million wound up with a slightly unsleek tab of $700 million.
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Brazilians are not known for their timekeeping – they have a special phrase they deploy when they actually want you to turn up at an anointed hour for once: English Time.
However, as we delve more deeply into the mechanisms of circadian timekeeping, we are discovering that post-translational mechanisms play a key role in defining the character of the clock.
Despite our reliance on timekeeping, there has been a national shortage of horologists in recent years.
But the payroll agency has been repeatedly criticized for its handling of the CityTime project, an automated system devised to streamline employee timekeeping, which has been dogged by delays and enormous cost overruns.
The coaxial escapement, invented by Mr. Daniels in 1974, fixed a basic design flaw of the traditional lever escapement — the part of a watch that regulates its timekeeping — which had been puzzling watchmakers for centuries.
He was dropped from the side earlier this summer for poor timekeeping and has been overlooked by England completely this season.
They still exploited a system that the super-accurate clocks of another British pioneer of timekeeping, John Harrison, had first made possible in 1761.
