In the year 1900 E. WALTER MAUNDER, F.R.A.S
produced a treasure of a work titled
The ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH
currently available online at
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/bookman/library/ROG/INDEX.HTM
In chapter VI is this quote
There are few questions more frequently put than, 'What time is it?'
'Can you tell me the true time? 'A stickler for exactitude might
reply, 'What kind of time do you mean?' 'Do you mean solar or
sidereal time?' 'Apparent time or mean time?' 'Local time or
standard time?' There are all these six kinds of time, but it is only
within the last two generations, within, indeed, the reign of our
Sovereign, Queen Victoria, that the subject of the differences of most
of these kinds of time has become of pressing importance to any but
theorists.
Proliferation of time scales predates the atomic resonator.
It's a thing that humans do.
--
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