You may think you know what time is. Are you right?

The Current powered by Kim Komando

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

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4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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What time is it? Did you know that people around the globe work day and night trying to define time? In this Komando on Demand podcast, I’ll explore the quirky aspects of a leap-year, and why the experts are arguing about a simple second. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Take a quick look at your smartphone, your tablet, or your watch. What time is it right now? Do you think you know? Well, guess what?
0:21.4	You don't.
0:22.1	What time is it right now and what time is it in this part of the world or that part of the world at this moment?
0:27.6	Time is the one thing that every country around the globe, friend or enemy, even countries at war, must agree about.
0:34.6	Does anybody really know what time it is? Can't? must agree about. As it turns out, keeping the correct time, knowing the correct time is, is far more difficult
0:53.7	than you can ever imagine.
0:55.3	But keeping time and keeping it accurately affects everything in our world.
1:00.1	From washing machines and cell phones to toilets, movies.
1:04.0	Maintaining what's known as the correct time interval is vital.
1:07.1	It defines frequency.
1:08.8	From your AM radio, your FM radio, the TV television broadcast, the digital telephone network, the cell phone network, right on up to the GPS broadcast.
1:21.1	Does anybody really know what the time it is?
1:25.6	Can?
1:26.6	Is anybody really care? All my is. Is anybody really care of what time?
1:29.3	If so I can't imagine why.
1:32.3	I'm Kim Commando,
1:33.3	with their 1969 smash hit,
1:36.3	Does anybody really know what time it is?
1:39.3	And the answer to that question is,
1:41.3	no, no one really knows precisely what time it is.
1:45.4	I'm Kim Commando, host of the nation's largest radio show
1:48.3	about everything digital.
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