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Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where, suddenly, the time differences between cities mattered. This book is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task.

Clocks and watches --- Time --- Time measurements. --- Time measurements --- History. --- Social aspects. --- History. --- American. --- Annie Maunder. --- British. --- Canadian history. --- Charles Piazzi Smyth. --- Cleveland Abbe. --- George Airy. --- Greenwich. --- Indigenous. --- John Couch Adams. --- Kikuchi Dairoku. --- Martial Bourdin. --- Ruth Belville. --- Sandford Fleming. --- Simon Newcomb. --- William Allen. --- William Chistie. --- William Parker Snow. --- astronomy. --- business. --- computers. --- day. --- daylight savings. --- diplomacy. --- global. --- great pyramid. --- history. --- international meridian conference. --- local time. --- longitude. --- metric system. --- prime meridian. --- railway time. --- royal observatory. --- science. --- standard. --- technology. --- time-sense. --- time. --- timekeeping. --- transit venus. --- universal. --- zones.