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FYI… before the railways it was quite common for one village to have a different agreed ‘time zone’ to villages just a few miles down the road. This time was de
by Daub 1y ago
FYI… before the railways it was quite common for one village to have a different agreed ‘time zone’ to villages just a few miles down the road. This time was defined by the clock of the village church. It was the railways which put an end to this.
- Doctor_Fegg 1y agoServices at Oxford’s cathedral (Christ Church) still begin at five minutes past the hour because of this.
- euroderf 1y agoIs it also the source of European university classes starting at quarter after ?
- eleveriven 1y agoStandardized time is such a weirdly modern invention when you think about it... before trains, no one really needed it
- Someone 1y agoThe general population didn’t need it, but there was considerable interest in having a form of standardized time as far back as 1530. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Transport_of_chronometers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Transport...: “The first to suggest traveling with a clock to determine longitude, in 1530, was Gemma Frisius, a physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker from the Netherlands. The clock would be set to the local time of a starting point whose longitude was known, and the longitude of any other place could be determined by comparing its local time with the clock time.”