One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity - Hardcover

Bartky, Ian R.

 
9780804756426: One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804756422 ISBN 13: 9780804756426
Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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 University Press in 2000.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0804756422
ISBN 13 
9780804756426
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320