剧情简介：The remarkable story of how timekeeping became a global affair - and how standard time almost didn’t happen. Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly inter...(展开全部)
作者：Scott Alan Johnston
出版社：McGill Queen University Press
ISBN：9780228008439
