It would certainly be fun, assuming with machine could also take you places. Imagine going back in time to visit the Great Pyramids and having to travel all the way there on foot, by horse or boat.
Thinking of the future, if I had invented time travel, then I would have thought (very reasonably) "why stop here?" and then moved on to invent teleportation too. So travelling from A to B would not be a problem.
More realistically speaking, one thing I could have actually come up with is the excellent TimeandDate website: https://www.timeanddate.com/. As the name suggests, I use it for anything time and date related, especially finding out what the difference is between two dates. For example since my first post on 16/12/2017 there have been 4354 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date. Useful to know.
In case you have been wondering that is:
- 11 years, 11 months, 1 day excluding the end date.
- 143 months, 1 day excluding the end date.
- 376,185,600 seconds
- 6,269,760 minutes
- 104,496 hours
- 4354 days
- 622 weeks
Returning to the book, one thing that was of interest was the fact that 4236 was the first recorded year. After some online searching it seems that this was the first year of Egyptian calendar.
PS: I only noticed that Thing 10 was to invent a time machine, almost 2 years after the original post. It seems that somehow I managed to go back in time to complete this Thing today!
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