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Yesterday I was in a rideshare and the driver kept lecturing me on the history of timekeeping. He said that the French have recently made a metric type of time keeping and are making the world covert to it. He also said that in the 1800s people didn't have a concept of timekeeping. According to him, before 1945 if it was 3:00 PM in one place it was 3:00 all over the world. Only after WWII did we have time zones that corresponded to local time.
Since I had to deal that that utter nonsense at length on the ride to an appointment, I though I'd subject you all to it. I am far from an expert on the history of time keeping, but it's something I do know a thing or two about and it is relevant to my other interests like various historical time periods. Can you imagine 1920s NYC using Greenwich Mean Time instead of having 12:00 be when the sun is high in the sky? I just looked up metric time and it was used for a few years about 1792. I was pretty sure that if France didn't use 24 hour days I'd have heard about it at some point, like when I was there, but I decided to look it up just in case.
Since I had to deal that that utter nonsense at length on the ride to an appointment, I though I'd subject you all to it. I am far from an expert on the history of time keeping, but it's something I do know a thing or two about and it is relevant to my other interests like various historical time periods. Can you imagine 1920s NYC using Greenwich Mean Time instead of having 12:00 be when the sun is high in the sky? I just looked up metric time and it was used for a few years about 1792. I was pretty sure that if France didn't use 24 hour days I'd have heard about it at some point, like when I was there, but I decided to look it up just in case.
