Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend
…or someone in Hong Kong to need to coordinate her schedule with someone in Lagos. But it was also about authority, and the terms of the change proceeded down some predictable lines of power. Colonial governments imposed standardized time systems in their colonies, often aided by missionaries. Towns and cities conformed to the standards of urban power centers, adopting, say, Berlin time, or London time. It’s not a coincidence that the midpoint of g…
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