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Matters of Time

99% Invisible

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The Transition Between Local Time and Standard Time

Local time was justhe time. And a lot of folks were pretty reluctant to get on board with these new fangled ideas like standard time. What struck me in writing about this transition is that railroads really effectively collapsed both space and time. So i'm really fond of these quirky exceptions and these little remnants of that intersticial period, like this clock in bristol.

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