If you have a chance, read Clark Blaise's book "Time Lord". It is the biography of "Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of Standard Time". The thing that set Fleming off on his mission is best described by an extract of a review of the book
<< Here, Sandford Fleming enters the scene. At 5:10 p.m. on a bright July day in 1876, in the country station of Bandoran, Ireland, a balding figure with a salt-and-pepper mattress-stuffer of a beard, wearing a gentleman's formal frock coat, alighted from a horse-drawn taxi 25 minutes before the scheduled arrival of the Londonderry train. At 5:35 p.m., nothing came. When Fleming checked, he found that his Irish Railroad Travelers' Guide was mistaken. The train was to arrive at 5:35 a.m. Fleming, chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, would be a prisoner for the night in Bandoran station. In those hours, a plan took form that would define the Decade of Time. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:33 PM Subject: [USMA:37238] 24-hour time format > Like a standard of measurement, an "algebraic" (24-hour) time format helps > prevent errors. Over the past year, I have known two people personally who > have overslept and been late for work because they set their alarm clocks to > the wrong "meridiem" (AM, PM; one of these errors occurred this week, with a > co-worker who was supposed to relieve me). I haven't made this mistake in a > long time, but I probably will in the future. So, I am still seeking an > ordinary bedside alarm clock-radio that can be set to 24-hour time format > and also uses U.S. electric current. > > > Paul Trusten, R.Ph. > Public Relations Director > U.S. Metric Association, Inc. > www.metric.org > 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apt. 122 > Midland TX 79707-2872 USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
