News, deep dives and timing tips from the TiCaNo App Studiohttps://ticano.app/https://ticano.app/blog/what-the-decimals-mean/https://ticano.app/blog/what-the-decimals-mean/00:04.2137 — that last digit is real, not padding. It is also not an accuracy claim. The difference between resolution, precision and accuracy, told through our own app's code.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/phone-clock-vs-wall-clock/https://ticano.app/blog/phone-clock-vs-wall-clock/In 2018, every mains-powered clock in Europe lost six minutes because the grid drifted by four thousandths of a hertz. No phone noticed. The difference is correction — and the correction is also the one thing that can touch a running stopwatch.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/daylight-saving-evidence/https://ticano.app/blog/daylight-saving-evidence/The energy savings round to zero, the heart-attack spike is real but almost always misquoted, and the sleep-medicine consensus recommends the opposite of what the US House just voted for. What the studies actually measured.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/first-atomic-clock/https://ticano.app/blog/first-atomic-clock/In June 1955 the steadiest timekeeper on Earth began ticking — and nothing steady enough to check it against existed. So it was tied to Greenwich, then to the Moon, and finally defined.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/what-is-a-time-zone/https://ticano.app/blog/what-is-a-time-zone/In Kashgar, the sun can reach its highest point at ten past three in the afternoon. That is not astronomy — it is politics, and once you see it, the whole map of time makes sense.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/leap-seconds/https://ticano.app/blog/leap-seconds/Twenty-seven times, a minute has lasted sixty-one seconds. It broke Reddit, grounded check-in desks, and is now being retired — just as the Earth started spinning fast enough to need the opposite.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/why-stopwatches-drift/https://ticano.app/blog/why-stopwatches-drift/Start two identical timers at the same instant and come back tomorrow. They disagree — and the reasons are a tuning fork, a parabola, and the temperature of wherever you left them.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/how-long-is-a-moment/https://ticano.app/blog/how-long-is-a-moment/It used to have an answer. So did the atom, the jiffy and the shake — units invented centuries before anything could measure them, by people who were counting rather than timing.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/railways-invented-time/https://ticano.app/blog/railways-invented-time/Until 1840 every English town kept its own noon, and nobody minded. Then something started moving faster than the sun — and the clocks had to be argued into agreement.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/why-sixty-seconds/https://ticano.app/blog/why-sixty-seconds/Sixty is a strange number to hang a civilisation's timekeeping on. The answer runs from Sumer to a Kassel workshop to a French decree that made noon five o'clock — and lasted seventeen months.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/does-it-keep-running/https://ticano.app/blog/does-it-keep-running/Your phone would rather your apps stopped running. Here is what actually happens to a stopwatch when the screen goes dark — and the design trade-off behind the answer.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/how-the-stopwatch-got-precise/https://ticano.app/blog/how-the-stopwatch-got-precise/Six officials timed the same Olympic race and got four different answers. The story of how measuring a few seconds stopped being a matter of opinion.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ticano.app/blog/lap-vs-split/https://ticano.app/blog/lap-vs-split/Two numbers, one button press. Understanding which is which turns a list of times into something you can actually learn from.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT