Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend
…ed to the standards of urban power centers, adopting, say, Berlin time, or London time. It’s not a coincidence that the midpoint of global time, the Prime Meridian, runs right through London, the capital of the 19th century’s colonial superpower. (The French did not appreciate this arrangement, Ogle records. One deputy in the French chamber even introduced a bill to set France’s time to “Paris [time] minus nine minutes and twenty-one seconds,” whi…
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