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Ian R. Bartky, Selling the True Time:
nineteenth-century timekeeping in America. Stanford CA, Stanford
University Press, 2000. Pp xvi, 310.
This is the fascinating story of how the
world moved to standard time. The modern era began 18 November 1883 when
Standard Railway Time was launched in America; eventually, the system
became international based on an index measured from Greenwich, England.
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