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Am 01.03.2024 um 07:25 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:

>>
>>> The concept of time is actually based on counting events, about which
>>> we assume, they would occur always with the same frequency.
>>
>>> That was the year or the day in ancient times and later the hour and
>>> the second.
>>
>>> Much later men counted the waves in certain kinds of exitations of
>>> certain atoms.
>>
>>> But in all cases a process of counting was meant, where the
>>> underlying frequency was assumed to be universally constant.
>>
>>> But: that is problematic, because actually we don't know, whether
>>> these frequencies are universally constant or not.
>>
>>> This is so, because the second is defined and measured by the same
>>> process, which frequency we like to measure.
>>
>> This all comes down to the age-old question that has been repeatedly
>> debated on these forums: What is a clock?
>
> https://www.bing.com/search?q=clock+picture&form=ANNTH1&refig=7f26d3e3f0dd44458d7e38ba627e82c5&pc=U531
>
> These are, poor halfbrain.
>
>

All of these do not show time!

Dates belong to time values, too, because time is not only counting the 
hours, minutes and seconds within a single day.


TH

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