Coping with Time: Using a Local Time-Path Calendar to Reduce Heaping in Durations

Time & Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 339-362

  Haandrikman, Karen ^a   Rajeswari, N V ^b   Hutter, Inge ^a   Ramesh, B M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b J S S College of Science   (India)

^c Pisces Building   (India)

Author keywords

calendars; heaping; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644248397     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X04045476     Document Type: Article

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