Time Facts

Surprising facts and anecdotes about time. Check out our fun time facts for kids!

• Dinosaurs had to fit a full day’s work into just 23 hours.

• Einstein showed that gravity makes time run more slowly. Time flies faster in the sky.

• Daylight Saving Time began as a joke by Benjamin Franklin, who proposed waking people earlier on bright summer mornings.
  

  Hourglasses are used for time measurement, from minutes to hours, and even a year, and when the top bulb is empty, time is up.

• The length of a day is actually increasing as time passes.

• The leap year is generally credited to Julius Caesar.

• The seven day week started out in Mesopotamia.

• One second used to be defined as 1/86,400 the length of a day.

• Obelisks were special because they used moving shadows to tell about the time.

• The world’s most accurate clock, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado.

• Hourglasses’ are also known as ‘sandglasses’, ‘sand timers’, ‘egg timers’, ‘sand watches’ and ‘sand clocks’.

• People forever live in the past. According to this theory, every person is living at least 80 milliseconds in the past.

• Everyone experiences time differently.