It's about time!
Here are some brief blips following up on class -- these fill in some gaps in our discussion or add a new twist to them. Did you know that the standard time zones were conceptualized by a Canadian railway engineer in the 1870s, decided by a group of countries in 1884 in Washington, D.C. and set the world time system based on the Prime Meridian, Greenwich England!
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Standard Time -- a quick ditty on when this came about. (the US went from 56 to 4 zones!) |
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Daylight Savings Time: A story from the NY Times from 1967 on the implementation of a national policy. |
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Indiana -- Hoosier Time -- this link is to a page which reflects on how odd Indiana is in terms of its time zones and time policies. |