Time around the World

In class today, we talked about why time was different in all parts of the world. First, we learned about the Circadian Cycle, which is our bodies natural clock. In other words, our body get so used to the time we wake up and go to bed it knows when we should go to bed and when we should wake up without even using a clock. We learned about how in 1876 Fleming came up with the idea of essentially putting a clock in the center of the earth so the everyone on planet earth would have the same exact time. Not many people liked that ides so in 1879 Fleming came up with a new proposal which was to put a clock in the middle of Greenwich and that makes the time different in all parts of the world, this is the time that we use to this day. Next, we talked about why only America does day light savings, and we do it because we don't want children going to their bus stop when it is pitch black, so we pushed an hour back at the end of October, so it can be light out for the children. Lastly, we talked about how the present is such a small gap in time compared to the past and future, we realized that the present could be smaller than a hundredth of a second. 

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