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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. The book concludes with an examination of the recent changes in America's Daylight Saving Time that are scheduled to take effect in 2007.
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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. The book concludes with an examination of the recent changes in America's Daylight Saving Time that are scheduled to take effect in 2007.
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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. The book concludes with an examination of the recent changes in America's Daylight Saving Time that are scheduled to take effect in 2007.
Ian R. Bartky is a retired federal government scientist who has written and lectured extensively on numerous aspects of the public's time. He has done analyses for Congress and testified before it on technical issues associated with Daylight Saving Time. His previous book, Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America, was published by Stanford UniversityPress in 2000.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii List of Abbreviations xxiii Introduction 1 Creating a Date Line (1522-1921) What a Difference a Day Makes 9 Campaigning for Uniform Time (1870-1925) Choosing an Initial Meridian 35 Enter Two Innovators 48 Ventilating the Issues 59 North America and Rome 68 Washington and London and Beyond 82 Altering the Astronomical Day 100 Partitioning the World's Time 120 The French Take the Lead 138 Employing Clock Time as a Social Instrument (1883-1927) Advancing Sunset, Saving Daylight 161 Changing Time, Gaining Daylight 184 Epilogue: The Present 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 257 Index 283
