[LEAPSECS] Book: One time fits all : the campaigns for global uniformity

[Richard B. Langley]

FYI. Bartky also wrote Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century
Timekeeping in America (Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA, 2000) and died
last December. Obit here:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122302355.html>


Bartky, Ian R. One time fits all : the campaigns for global uniformity / Ian
R. Bartky. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2007. xxv, 292 p. : ill.,
maps ; 24 cm. [Includes bibliographical references and index.]
ISBN: 0-8047-5642-2 (Cloth/HB 49.95 USD)

LC Class: QB223
Dewey: 389/.17 22
LC Subject Headings: Time--Systems and standards.
"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 took effect in
2007.


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 Richard B. Langley                            E-mail: lang at unb.ca
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