Time as a vehicle of conquest of other nations is an interesting perspective. https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyranny-of-time/ https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyrann

Time as a vehicle of conquest of other nations is an interesting perspective. https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyranny-of-time/ https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyranny-of-time/ In reality, this process of switching from local time to Railway time or Greenwich Mean Time had already been taking place throughout the 1800s as a result of European colonialism, imperialism and oppression. Colonialism was not just a conquest of land, and therefore space, but also a conquest of time. From South Asia to Africa to Oceania, imperialists assaulted alternative forms of timekeeping. They saw any region without European-style clocks, watches and church bells as a land without time. “European global expansion in commerce, transport and communication was paralleled by, and premised upon, control over the manner in which societies abroad related to time,” the Australian historian Giordano Nanni wrote in his book, “The Colonization of Time.” “The project to incorporate the globe within a matrix of hours, minutes and seconds demands recognition as one of the most significant manifestations of Europe’s universalizing will.” In short, if the East India Company was the physical embodiment of British colonialism overseas, GMT was the metaphysical embodiment.