Fri, April 20, 2007
Carl Sagan had a Cosmic Calendar; Universe Man has a watch with a millennium hand and an eon hand—12:02 AM
If the year were only one minute long, April would be around the twentieth second. If the month of April were a minute, 4/19 would come around 36 seconds in. If the week were a minute, Thursday would be 17 seconds before the end of Saturday night.
How do I know all this? The elegantly intriguing Polar Clock – which answers all these questions and very, very few others.
