This book studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time the world-wide system of timekeeping by which we all live. Prior to the railroads adoption of Standard Railway Time in 1883, timekeeping was entirely a local matter, and America lacked any uniform system to coordinate times and public ...
"One Time Fits All" provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuses on three components of uniform time all linked to the prime meridian at Greenwich - the International Date Line, the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) - ...
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James E. Keeler, Pioneer American Astrophysicist, and the Early Development of American Astrophysics
