Showing posts with label time zones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time zones. Show all posts
November 18, 2008
On time — 125 years ago, today
Prior to Nov. 18, 1883, if it were noon in Pittsburgh, Pa., it might only be 11:54 a.m. in Youngstown, Ohio, 11:44 a.m. in Cleveland, etc. That was until the U.S. and Canadian governments, and the major railroads, got together and established modern time zones, including the idea that, within each time zone, the time was uniform throughout.
July 07, 2008
Living on Mecca time
No, not Tulsa time. And definitely, absolutely not Greenwich Mean Time, or Universal Time. A group of Muslim clerics and scientists want the Prime Meridian to run through Mecca.
It is the center of the world, they say.
Only if the “center of the world” is a kitchen sink drain with the stopper removed.
It is the center of the world, they say.
Only if the “center of the world” is a kitchen sink drain with the stopper removed.
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