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In the 1880s, a businessman traveling by train from New York to Boston needed, on arrival, to adjust his clock, moving it ahead by 12 minutes. The strange increment, writes Clark Blaise, was a matter of local interpretation, some enterprising Bostonian having determined that the rising sun touched the shore of Massachusetts a dozen minutes before warming Manhattan. Such

Title : Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Author : Clark Blaise
Language : en
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