If it's any comfort, even people I know in Canada started edging away from me a few years ago when I was ranting about how wonderful a new book was that I'd picked up at Chapters in Vancouver a couple of years previous.
The book? "Time Lord", by Clark Blaise. A history of Sandford Fleming, the early Canadian who invented the modern standard time system. The book traces how Fleming's missing a train (because every railroad kept its own time) launched the idea of a universal time standard, and how he pursued this goal until he died. The implications of a time standard are farther-ranging than one would think.
It runs in the family. My mother used to read stuff like "The Naked Ape" and "Kon-Tiki" for entertainment.
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Date: 2006-01-20 03:20 pm (UTC)The book? "Time Lord", by Clark Blaise. A history of Sandford Fleming, the early Canadian who invented the modern standard time system. The book traces how Fleming's missing a train (because every railroad kept its own time) launched the idea of a universal time standard, and how he pursued this goal until he died. The implications of a time standard are farther-ranging than one would think.
It runs in the family. My mother used to read stuff like "The Naked Ape" and "Kon-Tiki" for entertainment.