NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
Creating a date line (1522-1921) -- What a difference a day makes -- Campaigning for uniform time (1870-1925) -- Choosing an initial meridian -- Enter two innovators -- Ventilating the issues -- North America and Rome -- Washington and London and beyond -- Altering the astronomical day -- Partitioning the world's time -- The French take the lead -- Employing clock time as a social instrument (1883-1927) -- Advancing sunset, saving daylight -- Changing time, gaining daylight -- Epilogue: the present
Summary:
"One Time Fits All provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuses on three components of uniform time, all linked to the prime meridian at Greenwich - the International Date Line, the worldwide system of Standard Time Zones, and Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) - tracing the story of their beginnings and eventual acceptance from original sources in Europe, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States."--Jacket.
