The Future of Time

Between London and Glasgow there's actually a variation in time by a couple of minutes. If you wanted to work out what the time was in any given town you had to know did you need to catch a train so you wanted railway time or were you doing anything else, he says. It's not until 1880 or 1881 that there's a a bill passes in the houses of common to make railway time standard time. What it also did was utterly reconfigured how we thought about time right is how you would have to think about it.