Timekeeping
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How much does a country spend to keep one agreed second?
Astronomy forced the world to standardise time long before any other science did
Why is the correct time something somebody has to run and pay for?
Who is legally responsible when a national time signal goes wrong?
Why do stock exchanges keep their own reference clock instead of trusting the wall clock?
Is arriving fifteen minutes late still acceptable in your social circle?
How did railways force towns to give up their own local noon?
Ship chronometers and the zone system that replaced local noon
What actually breaks when a country runs on two official times?
Why does an institution publish its own time instead of pointing to the national standard?
How did the telegraph make simultaneous time possible for the first time?
The tzdata file behind every calendar app changes several times a year
The 1884 vote that made Greenwich the world's prime meridian and France's abstention
Whether a statute or an observatory actually owns a country's official time
What happens to contracts and court filings when the official clock jumps?
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