One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity Book

List of Illustrations     ix
Preface     xiii
Acknowledgments     xvii
List of Abbreviations     xxiii
Introduction     1
Creating a Date Line (1522-1921)
What a Difference a Day Makes     9
Campaigning for Uniform Time (1870-1925)
Choosing an Initial Meridian     35
Enter Two Innovators     48
Ventilating the Issues     59
North America and Rome     68
Washington and London and Beyond     82
Altering the Astronomical Day     100
Partitioning the World's Time     120
The French Take the Lead     138
Employing Clock Time as a Social Instrument (1883-1927)
Advancing Sunset, Saving Daylight     161
Changing Time, Gaining Daylight     184
Epilogue: The Present     201
Notes     211
Bibliography     257
Index     283