As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

David Dominoni, of Glasgow university, said that light from street lamps, takeaway signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.

For example, the moment you get on the airplane, start adjusting your biological clock to the destination's time.

I looked quickly at the clock, the show starts in one hour; plenty of time! I drank the rest of my coffee and went to take a shower.

I was watching the clock all through the meeting, as I had a train to catch.

In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock.

Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm clock.

Set your alarm clock an hour early and push yourself to work out! You will feel energized all day long.

She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned my expenses on running.

Slow to respond to the change, your body clock is confused.

The report found that youngsters felt their friendships could be at risk if they did not respond to social media posts quickly, and around the clock.

People can enjoy services around the clock.

While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time.

They leave when the clock tells them they're done.

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

They combine clock-based and task-based planning.

These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers.

New research shows that clock-based work schedules hinder morale ( ' , 士 气 ) and creativity.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours.

He bought an alarm clock with a pig face.

Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.

Thus, time and time's relativity are measurable by any hourglass, alarm clock, or an atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second

In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne- Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities — from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga — by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time

It seems to me that a compromise would be receiving the exam questions a day or two in advance, and then doing the actual test in class with the ticking clock overhead.

We have John standing by the time clock, and he swears he saw nothing irregular.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

It's important to note that the increased flexibility didn't encourage them to work around the clock.

Few of us wish to turn the clock back, but perhaps we need to remind ourselves how useful the right obstacles can be.

It's important to note that the increased flexibility didn't encourage them to work around the clock.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.

For example, the Long Now Foundation has its flagship project a medical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true” meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to the world.

But a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.

For example,the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

Parkrun is not a race but a time trial: Your only competitor is the clock.

You wish that you could turn back the clock and start over.