What is "timekeeping"

Usage examples of "timekeeping".

There is a huge demand for my wares, especially the unique timekeeping candles I fashion.

She frowned, obviously trying to connect his question about timekeeping candles with a lotus flower.

A small rectangle of blinking lights was mounted to one side of the control panela self-contained timekeeping device, the tricorder indicated, obviously designed for eyes different than his.

Timekeeping devices on a transdimensional flight always had to be reset later.

He could see that eventually, ~ivcn enough superimpellor-driven spacecraft visiting enough distan~ planets, a whole new technique of timekeeping and date-recording would have to be developed to account for those local rate-of-time variations and relate them to each other in a mean.

All of this traces back to the haphazard system of timekeeping prevalent before the 1884 Washington conference that established Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the international reference point and divided the world into 24 zones, the time in each of which was to differ by a whole number of hours from GMT.

You could continue the timekeeping by substituting a new candle as the old one burned out, or by turning the sand clock over when all the sand had drifted out of the upper chamber.