One time fits all : the campaigns for global uniformity
"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) - tracing the story of their beginnings and eventual acceptance from original sources in Europe, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2007
xxv, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780804756426, 0804756422
123377296
Creating a date line (1522-1921)
What a difference a day makes
Campaigning for uniform time (1870-1925)
Choosing an initial meridian
Enter two innovators
Ventilating the issues
North America and Rome
Washington and London and beyond
Altering the astronomical day
Partitioning the world's time
The French take the lead
Employing clock time as a social instrument (1883-1927)
Advancing sunset, saving daylight
Changing time, gaining daylight
Epilogue: the present