CIVIL TIME

local time based on universal time. Civil time may be formally defined as mean solar time plus 12 hr; the civil day begins at midnight, while the mean solar day begins at noon. Civil time is occasionally adjusted by one-second increments to ensure that the difference between a uniform timescale defined by atomic clocks does not differ from the earth's rotational time by more than 0.9 seconds. Coordinated universal time (UTC), an atomic time, is the basis for civil time. Civil time is usually not used, since it depends on the observer's longitude; instead, standard time, which is the same throughout a given time zone, is generally adopted.

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An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front
Book by Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller; Fordham University Press, 2002
Subjects: Northeastern States--History, Military--19th Century, Northeastern States--Social Conditions--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social Aspects
...How a Battle Is Sketched, ' Civil War Times Illustrated 1 (May 1962...Frederic E. Ray, Alfred R. Waud, Civil War Time.s Illustrated 2 (December...the Imps of Hell Let Loose, Civil War Times Ill2istrated 22 (June 1983...
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Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights during Times of Crisis
Book by Richard Delgado; New York University Press, 2003
Subjects: Emigration And Immigration Law--United States, Immigrants--Civil Rights--United States, Intellectuals--Fiction, Minorities--Civil Rights--United States, Minorities--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States, Race Discrimination--United States, Racism--United States, United States--Politics And Government--2001-2009, United States--Race Relations, United States--Social Conditions--1980-
...the black community at this time. 43 That does sound familiar...most promising generation of civil rights leaders was ostracized...leadership and the end of the civil-rights era to my list of structures...United States came to tolerate civil-rights gains for blacks in...
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The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
Book by Rod Paige, Elaine Witty; American Management Association, 2010
Subjects: Academic Achievement--United States, Education--Demographic Aspects--United States, Educational Equalization--United States
...American leadership and our powerful civil rights organizations to confront the greatest civil rights challenge of our time: eliminating the black white achievement...slavery and continuing through the Civil Rights struggles of the late fifties...
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Touched with Fire? Two Philadelphia Novelists Remember the Civil War
Book by J. Matthew Gallman; Marquette University Press, 2002
Subjects: American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History And Criticism, Dickinson, Anna E--(Anna Elizabeth)--1842-1932--What Answer?, Mitchell, S. Weir--(Silas Weir)--1829-1914--In War Time, New York (N.Y.)--In Literature, Novelists, American--Homes And Haunts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature And The War, Philadelphia (Pa.)--In Literature, Philadelphia (Pa.)--Intellectual Life, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature And The War
In War Time is in many senses a typical popular...certainly not a bad effort for a first time author. 12 How did S. Weir Mitchell incorporate the Civil War into this tale that he consciously set in war time ? The war is certainly present in...
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Government Organization in War Time and after: A Survey of the Federal Civil Agencies Created for the Prosecution of the War
Book by William Franklin Willoughby; D. Appleton & Company, 1919
Subjects: United States--Politics And Government--1913-1921, World War, 1914-1918--Economic Aspects--United States, World War, 1914-1918--United States
PROBLEMS OF WAR AND OF RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION IN WAR TIME AND AFTER A SURVEY OF THE FEDERAL CIVIL AGENCIES CREATED FOR THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR BY WILLIAM FRANKLIN WILLOUGHBY DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH...
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Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865
Journal article by Scott A. Sandage; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865 (Book)--Book reviews
...intriguing subject of time consciousness during the Civil War. The author...measured and experienced times) changed with the...she calls "battle time." The task orientation...modern nature of the Civil War" (p. 5...reveal the multiple times in play. By these...Nevertheless, Civil War Time is a fine addition...
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Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865
Journal article by Amy S. Greenberg; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865 (Book)--Book reviews
...battle time" during the Civil War was a particular...argument here is that battle time "reconfigured activities...by trumping all other times and forcing soldiers...of the clock," clock time lost "its authority...and often conflicting times...." (35) Although...freedom" (88) battle time brought to Civil War nurses, since the...
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Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley
Journal article by Karen L. Cox; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003
Subjects: Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley (Book)
Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel...the spate of edited collections of Civil War letters and diaries published...understanding of the impact of the Civil War: the nonslaveholding majority...
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Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
Journal article by Nikki Berg Burin; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant (Biography)--Book reviews
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell...Julia Dent Grant. by Nikki Berg Burin Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of...contribution to the fulsome historiography on Civil War-era America with Civil War Wives...
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"Their Rising Voices": a Study of Civil Rights, Social Movements, and Advertising in the New York Times
Journal article by Susan Dente Ross; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 75, 1998
Subjects: Activism, Civil rights, Corporate profiles, New York Times Co, Print advertising
...leaders who supported the civil rights movement. It...with a quotation - this time from the New York Times. Citing an editorial...participating in the civil rights movement and identifies...broader effort by the civil rights movement to use the New York Times to reach a new audience...
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Recreating the Civil Society - One Child at a Time
Magazine article by Colin L. Powell; Brookings Review, Vol. 15, Fall 1997
Subjects: Civil society--Social aspects, Social work with youth--Associations and societies, Socially handicapped youth--Social policy
Recreating the civil society - one child at a time. by Colin L. Powell It was a happy...Conceptions of what constitutes a "civil society" may differ as to details...probably agree that, at a minimum, a civil society is one whose members care...
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States Cast Important Ballots for Civil Rights
Magazine article by Barbara Hays; National NOW Times, Vol. 30, January 1998
Subjects: Affirmative action, Civil rights, Initiatives
States Cast Important Ballots for Civil Rights by Barbara Hays Across the country...in line with other state laws regarding civil rights. Opponents used the tactic of referring...referendum on the states recently adopted gay civil rights bill. Maine NOW and other groups...
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Forget Marriage-civil Unions for All
Magazine article by Terry J. Allen; In These Times, Vol. 33, February 2009
Subjects: Civil unions, Couples, Marriage, Public policy, United States
...people shouldnt be able to form a civil union that carries the same...religious framework, joining civil, secular rights to heterosexual...its gay stepchild, current civil unions), a couple is assumed...mandated by God evolve over time like Darwins finches. "Traditional...
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Jena and the Post-civil Rights Fallacy
Magazine article by Salim Muwakkil; In These Times, Vol. 31, November 2007
Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Criminal justice, Demonstrations & protests, Obama, Barack, Senators
...IT APPEARS that the post-civil rights era is old news. Put...announce the emergence of a new civil rights movement. The large...incarcerates them more than eight times the rate of whites. Most of...tinged battleground of the civil rights movement. The star players...
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House Nixes Election-time Tv-radio Civil Rights Ads
Magazine article; Human Events, Vol. 58, March 4, 2002
Subjects: Advertisements, Amendments, Civil rights, House of Representatives
House Nixes Election-time Tv-radio Civil Rights Ads On Feb. 13, 2002, by...citizen organizations to discuss the civil rights records of members of Congress...make the point, whether it is on civil rights or the 2nd Amendment, whether...
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IDIOCY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER; Civil Servants Want Time off to Cash Non-Existent Cheques
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 16, 2011
Subjects: Civil servants, Public employees
...are not looking for banking time, as such, we are looking for...sector. Mr Fielding said the civil servants would lose public support...inefficiency. At the very top of the civil service, the very senior management...theres a lack of leadership at times in the civil service, he said. The motion...
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Costly Guru Hired to Tell Top Civil Servants: Hippo Time Is Okay; (Meaning: Wallow after a Mistake but Then Get over It)
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 3, 2010
Subjects: Civil servants, Public employees
...had to foot the bill. Senior civil servants at the Department for...help mantras, such as Hippo Time is Okay and Change Your T...in challenging and changing times. Three civil service managers spent four...change your results) and Hippo Time is OK (understand how setbacks...
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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING; despite Pushing Public Sector Pay Cuts, Government Gives Civil Servants Paid Time Off. to Go Christmas Shopping
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 7, 2009
Subjects: Civil servants--Compensation and benefits, Public employees--Compensation and benefits, Public sector, Wages, Wages and salaries
...Sector Pay Cuts, Government Gives Civil Servants Paid Time Off. to Go Christmas Shopping...Molony Political Editor THOUSANDS of civil servants are to get fully paid...in the private sector. He said civil servants also get double basnk...
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War Games Eye Iraq Civil Conflict; Contingency Plans Readied
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 15, 2006
Subjects: United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...Scarborough, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Defense Secretary Donald H...games in the event of an Iraq civil war, but does not believe that...the magnitude of the American Civil War. As sectarian violence...people do. Do I think were in a civil war at the present time? No." Asked when he will...
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British Take on Our Civil War
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 1, 2009
Subjects: Keegan, John, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
British Take on Our Civil War. Byline: John M. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Winston Churchill once called the American Civil War the noblest and least avoidable of the great wars up to that time. The fact that the American...most studied conflict, our own Civil War. The result is a notably...
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encyclopedia articles on: Civil Time  - 462 results

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Civil Time
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CIVIL TIME local time based on universal time . Civil time may be formally defined as mean solar time plus 12 hr; the civil day begins at midnight, while the mean solar day begins at...
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Civil Law
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...created by judicial decisions over time. The tendency in civil law is to create a unified legal...drawn from basic principles. The civil law judge is bound by the provisions...the written law. The traditional civil law decision states the applicable...
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Civil Defense
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CIVIL DEFENSE nonmilitary activities designed...and their property from enemy actions in time of war. A civil defense program usually includes measures...their lives and property after attack. Civil defense grew in proportion to the use...
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Civil Service
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...intention of divorcing the civil service from politics. A...revision of the act allows most civil servants to engage in political activity on their own time. Appointive power is shared...own employees; and by the Civil Service Commission and departmental...
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Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ed., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (4 vol., 1877; new ed. 1956); J. C. Ropes, The Story of the Civil War (2 vol., 1898 99; completed...Maurice, Statesmen and Soldiers of the Civil War (1926). R. E. Lee: A Biography...
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