[time-nuts] Setting clocks 100 years ago

[J. Forster]

My impression is that before the Railways and Telegraph, each town had
time, based on local solar time, determined by a a noon sight or something
similar. That means that towns kept time based on their longditude.

Until the railways went long distances, Standard Time and Time Zones were
not needed.

There was an interesting episode on the PBS show, "The History Detectives"
a month or so ago about a clock from a Chicago jewelers that was used as
the master time clock for a railroad.

Best,

-John

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> This evening I happened to hear the nearby church's bell tolling 10 pm,
> and
> thought
> that 100+ years ago this could have been the "official" time of the town,
> which
> maybe was used by people to set their own clocks (if any). But then I
> wondered,
> who told the priest what time was it? To what extent the clocks of two
> towns
> were expected to be close to one another? Does anybody know?
>
> Antonio I8IOV
>
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